The Rivers State Judiciary has released 23 detainees after judicial officers reviewed cases at correctional centres in Port Harcourt, Ahoada and Degema.
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Litigation news, court judgments, procedural developments, case updates and analysis from Nigerian courts and tribunals.
The Court of Appeal in Akure has upheld Professor Sunday Amuseghan’s appointment as Kalasuwe of Apoiland, finding that the challenger was ineligible under the stool’s rotational arrangement.
A fugitive drug kingpin, Ntoruka Emmanuel Chinedu, and an ex-international football player, Hunkarin Segun George, have been convicted and sentenced to a combined 24 years’ imprisonment by Justice Musa Kakaki of the Federal High Court, Lagos, for unlawful importation of […]
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN), Lagos Division, has ordered the immediate reinstatement of 70 Nigerian Army personnel who were convicted by courts-martial in 2014 but later granted an unconditional presidential pardon by former President Muhammadu Buhari. In a […]
A high-stakes criminal trial involving alleged forgery and the diversion of N460,750,000 took a dramatic turn this week at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, after the principal defendant failed to appear in court, citing a medical emergency abroad without […]
By Eric Ikhilae, Abuja The Supreme Court has affirmed the June 18 judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, upholding the nomination of Governor Abiodun Oyebanji as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the June 20 governorship […]
Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt vacates a 15-month freeze on 124 accounts tied to businesswoman Aisha Achimugu, while setting aside a lower court order that had reversed a disputed ₦1.8bn EFCC transfer.
Justice Ibrahim Ahmad Kala of a Federal High Court, Lagos, has fixed October 5, 2026, for the arraignment of Austin Albert, Managing Director/CEO of Loft and Keys Ltd, Loft & Keys LLC, Dubai, and his associate, Jinadu Musbau Olalekan, over […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday turned down the request to hear a fresh application filed by detained National President of Miyetti Allah Kauta Kore, Alhaji Bello Bodejo, to vary the conditions attached to the bail recently granted him. The […]
By Taiye Agbaje The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday has declined moves by Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, to tender an uncertified document in support of his defence in the ongoing trial for alleged criminal defamation. Justice […]