COURTROOM NEWS

Ekiti State High Court yesterday granted the application of the former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Chief Gboyega Aribisogan, for a substituted service on the current Speaker, Mrs. Olubunmi Adelugba. In a motion ex-parte brought pursuant to order 39 Rule (1)…

Major stakeholders in the Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State have asked a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to stop the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), from inaugurating the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission pending the…

he Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the police, a Lagos magistrate and her husband to show cause why it should not allow a motion ex-parte challenging the detention of lawyer, Godswill Gomba Oyor for 10 days. Godswill Gomba Oyor and his…

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has declared that neither the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, AMMC, nor the Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, have the power to name streets or assign numbers to houses in Abuja. Consequently, the court, in…

The former Director General of the Presidential Campaign Council of the Labour Party, LP, Dr Doyin Okupe, who was convicted over a breach of the Money Laundering Act, has gone to the Appeal Court to appeal his conviction. In a press statement released…

The Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square, has granted an injunction restraining Game Discount World (Popularly known as “The Game Stores”) and four others, from shutting down the business and disposing of assets or interests in the Game…

Social-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued oil-producing states for allegedly failing to account for the N625.43 billion recently paid to them by the Federal Government. The payment to Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Rivers, Ondo, Imo and Cross River states…

The Ekiti State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Ado Ekiti, the State capital, on Thursday, upheld the election of Governor Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the duly governor of the State. The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic…

A Federal High Court Sitting in Kano has dismissed a case filed by Jafar Sani Bello, Muhammad Sani Abacha’s  membership of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In an originating summon, Bello alleged that Abacha didn’t follow the laid down procedure of registering as a…

Aokete Lighting Electronics Industry Ltd, Mega Benjamin & Eric Nig. Ltd, Chen Xiao Ming, He Lian Chan, Gaoxi Ong, and Elochuksu Aganama have asked the Federal High Court, FCT, to lift its order restraining them from using the AKT trademark. A letter addressed…