A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has dismissed a suit filed by a lawyer, Williams Stanley, challenging the legality of the recently concluded August 30 local government elections in the state. The suit, filed against President Bola […]
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Litigation news, court judgments, procedural developments, case updates and analysis from Nigerian courts and tribunals.
By Taiye Agbaje The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, dismissed the bail application of five suspects being tried over terrorists’ attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo in Ondo State on June 5, 2022. The suspects identified as […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Department of State Services, DSS, on Wednesday, arraigned before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, nine persons who were allegedly involved in recent killings in Benue and Plateau states. In six separate charges, the security […]
By Daniel Abia, Port Harcourt Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has dismissed an ex-parte order seeking to stop the August, 30th Local Government elections in the state. The Presiding Judge, Justice Stephen Jumbo in his ruling on […]
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered six banks to furnish the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police with details of account documents and all transactions, including inflows and outflows, linked to Omoyele Sowore from January 2024 to date. Justice […]
Coming three years after their arrest, the commencement of prosecution of some suspected terrorists, who attacked the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, on June 5, 2022, and killed 40 worshippers, appears to have suffered a delay; but […]
By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja A Mortgage banker, identified as Sulaiman Olayiwola Gbajabiamila has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for diverting the sum of N31 million paid to him for acquisition of a flat in Iponri area of the State. Gbajabiamila […]
The Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an order restraining the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the House Committee on Capital Market and Institutions, and two of its members from compelling the appearance of Chief Executives/Managing Directors of […]
By Adepote Arowojobe An Ikorodu Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday, ordered the remand of a 40-year-old man, Lekan Adebeshin, in a correctional centre for allegedly defiling a 15- year-old girl. Adebeshin, whose address was not provided, is standing trial on […]
A lawyer, Victor Giwa, has said that the recent judgment by a Canadian court, which tagged the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as terrorist organisations, was in line with the country’s criminal law. Giwa, who […]