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The Deputy Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Samuel Aderoboye, has been sacked from by an Akure High Court in the State capital. The Court presided by Justice Adetan Osadebey, ordered the reinstatement of a former Deputy Speaker of…

The High Court of Lagos State, presided over by Justice O Sule-Amzat has stopped a real estate firm, UACN Property Development Company Plc. (UPDCPlc.) from dissipating, disposing, or tampering with a parcel of land measuring 5, 306. 989 square meters, situated along…

A former Minister of Special Duties, Alhaji Bello Kirfi, has dragged the Bauchi State government to court to challenge his removal from office as a Senior Councillor in the Bauchi Emirate Council. Kirfi, a retired federal civil servant, minister in the government of…

An Adamawa State High Court sitting in Yola, on Tuesday, nullified the nomination of the senator representing Adamawa North, Ishaku Abbo, over his expulsion from the All Progressives Congress officials in his ward. The presiding judge, Justice Mohammed Danladi, held that the senator,…

The Department of State Service, DSS, and its Director General have been dragged before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, for the arrest of rights activist, Meliga Godwin, over a press conference he addressed condemning the agency for the…

The Federal High Court sitting in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has instructed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to remove the name Hon Mohammed Umara Kumalia as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senatorial candidate for Borno Central in the forthcoming elections. The…

Controversy has trailed the decision of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to grant bail to Obong Bassey Albert Akpan, governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), and serving Senator for Uyo Senatorial District, who was sentenced…

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the seizure of funds and assets that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, traced to a banker, Mr Aleshe Ayodeji, who allegedly deposited fake currencies worth over N20million, with the Central Bank of…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Sokoto State has reinstated the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Dauda Lawal, as the candidate representing the party in the 2023 governorship election in Zamfara State. The judgment has set aside the ruling of the Federal High…

Several Chairmen of political parties in the country have hailed the judgment of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) which declared that the Assets Declaration Form of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmoud Yakubu…