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Family, landlords parley over court judgment

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By Tajudeen Adebanjo The Isadare Olakotan Family in Idedo Community in Ota, Ogun State will, on Saturday, January 15, hold a parley with landlords in the village. According to a statement by the family’s secretary, Debo Dada, the meeting would discuss […]

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Journalist Drags Police, NCS To Court Over Breach Of Right

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By Unini Chioma A journalist and publisher of a newspaper, Otunba Gbenga Adebayo has dragged before a Federal High Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State and Comptroller of Nigeria Customs Service(NSC) in […]

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Court orders Oyo govt to derecognise monarch

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By Bisi Oladele An Oyo State High Court has ordered the state government to stop recognising the Onpetu of Ijeru as the traditional ruler of the Ogbomoso community. Justice K. Adedokun in a December 14 judgment upheld an earlier judgment of […]

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Court Stops Onyebuchi Okpala, Others From Conducting Agulu People’s Union’s Elections

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By Unini Chioma *Orders Commissioner Of Police To Ensure Compliance*Adjourns The Case To December 29 For Hearing*Directs Service Of Originating Processes By Substituted Means High Court in sitting in Anambra yesterday, ordered the members of the Caretaker Committee from conducting election […]

Whether court can remit a case to the chief judge for re-assignment because one of the parties lost confidence in court

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By Guardian Nigeria LIVA & ORS v. SHETTIMA CITATION: (2021) LPELR-56080(CA)In the Court of AppealIn the Gombe Judicial DivisionHolden at Gombe ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2021Suit No: CA/G/19/2021 Before Their Lordships:JUMMAI HANNATU SANKEY Justice, Court of AppealTUNDE OYEBANJI AWOTOYE Justice, Court […]

Courts discharge, acquit two Beninoise of conspiracy, stealing

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By Joseph Onyekwere Lagos courts have cleared two Beninoise nationals of the conspiracy, stealing and forgery charges brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2017. In the first suit marked LD/2415C/16, Justice O. A. Taiwo discharged […]

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Ecobank to court: restrain Honeywell from dissipating assets

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By Joseph Jibueze and Robert Egbe Ecobank Nigeria Limited has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to restrain Honeywell Group Limited from dissipating its assets pending the hearing and determination of winding-up proceedings in the suit. It said the […]

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Court dismisses suit instituted by nine-year-old girl

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By Agency Reporter An Ado Ekiti High Court on Wednesday dismissed a suit instituted by a nine-year-old Junior Secondary School I student of Mary Immaculate Girls Grammar School, Ado Ekiti, filed by her mother. Respondents in the suit are the School […]

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Court remands church worker for allegedly defiling eight-year-old girl

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By Agency Reporter An FCT High Court in Kubwa, on Tuesday, ordered that a 34-year-old church worker, Patrick Ekene, allegedly defiled an eight-year-old girl. The police charged Ekene, who resides in Kubwa, Abuja, with rape. Justice Bello Kawu ordered that the […]

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‘Why court ordered closure of Fed Govt’s marriage registries’

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By Robert Egbe The National President, Association of Local Government Marriage Registrars, Deji Sokeye, on Tuesday, confirmed that the Federal High Court in Lagos has barred the Federal Government from conducting marriages at its marriage registries nationwide. He said the court […]