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A financial advisory and consulting firm, Hydrocarbon Advisors Limited, has asked the Lagos State High Court to compel Accugas Limited to pay it $1.75million and N50 million for breach of agreement for professional services and as general damages. The plaintiff is the sole…

The Anambra State Government and a medical company yesterday told a Federal High Court in Abuja, that some of the landed property the court ordered to be temporarily forfeited to the federal government belongs to them. This was just as Ekweremadu asked the…

A  suit seeking to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack the Chief of Army Staff, General Faruk Yahaya, has received the backing of the Abuja division of the Federal High Court. The suit is a follow-up to the judgment that…

A Warri-based lawyer, Choice Umode has dragged the Nigerian Army and the Commanding Officer of the 90 Amphibious Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Maj. Ajongbo before a Delta State High Court, Effurun in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, with a…

The supreme court has granted the request by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to appeal a ruling that directed the company to pay N800 billion ($1.8 billion) compensation over an alleged spill in Rivers state. SPDC is the Nigerian subsidiary of global…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over “the failure to probe the spending of trillions of ecological funds by governments at all levels—federal, state and local governments from 2001 to date, and to ensure the…

Former Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, and his party, All Progressives Congress, the petitioners before the Election Petition Tribunal hearing matters emanating from last July 16 Osun governorship election on Saturday closed their case. The panel also at Saturday’s hearing admitted original…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has on Friday affirmed Gboyega Oyetola and his running mate, Benedict Alabi, as the authentic candidates of the All Progressives Congress in the July 16, 2022 governorship election in Osun State. The appeal with no: CA/ABJ/CV/1099/2022…

Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has withdrawn her case against a final-year student of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, Aminu Mohammed, following pressure and condemnation by activists, Amnesty International, the National Association of Nigerian Students, and other Nigerians. The prosecution counsel,…

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, following the committal order issued by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, November 29, 2022, has approached the court to file a motion to set aside the contempt proceeding and committal order. “In the…