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Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’ suit seeking the disqualification of Sen. Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), and his vice, Mr Kassim Shettima, for the 2023 general elections. Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang…

An Akwa Ibom State High Court has again adjourned the trial of Professor, Ignatius Uduk, over alleged electoral fraud during the conduct of the 2019 general election. Uduk was the returning officer in the election for Essien Udim Local Government Area of the…

A high court sitting in Akure, the Ondo state capital, has granted a garnishee order directing the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) to freeze the account of Polaris Bank over a judgment debt of N2.16 billion. A garnishee order is one of the options open to…

Multi-national oil giant, Chevron Nigeria Limited, has dragged Chief Rita Lori Ogbebor and others to a High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, seeking an order of perpetual injunction restraining them from withdrawing or transferring funds from the Itsekiri Regional Development Committee,…

A member of Seventh Day Adventist Church has dragged the federal government before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, seeking an order to stop the conduct of the 2023 general election and examinations on Saturdays. The member, also an elder of the…

Abia State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has failed in its bid to stop the All Progressives Congress (APC) from fielding its governorship candidate, High Chief Ikechi Emenike, in the 2023 general election. Emenike and the APC triumphed over the PDP…

The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja granted a reprieve to jailed Senator Peter Nwaoboshi by reversing the downward hearing date in the appeal challenging his seven years imprisonment for corruption. The initial hearing date in his appeal against the conviction…

The Court of Appeal in Kaduna State, on Wednesday, dismissed an appeal brought against the Independent National Electoral Commission, the All Progressive Congress, and its governorship candidate, Uba Sani, by the New Nigeria Peoples Party. Counsel for the Kaduna State APC, who is…

The National Industrial Court on Wednesday struck down Regulation 127 of the Nigeria Police Regulation made pursuant to the Police Establishment Act 2020 which provides for the sack of an unmarried woman police officer who gets pregnant. Media had in January 2021 reported…

Hearing in a N100 billion suit instituted against President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged unlawful removal from board was for the second time stalled at the Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday. The plaintiff, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume, had instituted a N100 billion suit against…