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The Port Harcourt Division of the Federal High Court has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) to commence deduction of over N40billion from the Federation Allocation Account for Ebonyi State Government and remittance of same to a consulting firm. In its Order Absolute,…

Retirees in Nigeria’s six geo-political zones have dragged the Federal Government before the National Industrial Court in Abuja, challenging alleged discrimination in implementing the pension policy in the country. The retirees are specifically challenging the alleged refusal of the Federal Government to review…

A Lagos High Court, Ikeja, has fixed November 28, 2022 for adoption of their written addresses in the suit against the Onitire of Itire, Chairman of Mushin Council and others. Justice Yetunde Pinheiro fixed the date in the suit marked ID/3669GCNW/2017 wherein the…

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has fixed November 25 this year, for definite hearing in a suit filed by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against Accord Party’s governorship candidate in Rivers State, Dumo Lulu Briggs. This is coming as the court …

The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos yesterday affirmed Mr. Abdul Kareem Shittu as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Ikorodu Federal Constituency seat in the House of Representatives. A three-man panel of the court dismissed two appeals challenging the September 10…

Justice Atinuke Ipaye of the High Court of Lagos State, Ikeja Division, has ruled that the federal government lacks the authority to issue licence and regulate lotteries and gaming within the federating states. Delivering judgment in a suit marked LD/49089GCM/2021filed by the Lagos…

A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit challenging the nomination of Liman Isa Kantigi as the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Niger State in next year’s election Justice Zainab Abubakar yesterday held that the court lacked…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been directed by a Federal High Court in Calabar to recognise and publish Sunday Ifere’s name as the Labour Party’s legally nominated candidate for the 2023 Abi/Yakurr Federal Constituency election in Cross River. Ifere, the plaintiff…

The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) has told a Federal High Court in Abuja that two of the fifteen persons who allegedly invaded the residence of retired Justice Mary Odili, were among inmates who absconded from the Kuje Correctional Centre during the July…

A mob has freed some suspects after overpowering police officers at a Magistrate Court 1 in Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha South LGA, Delta State. Following the attack which occurred Tuesday, there is tension in Ogwashi-Uku community after the police launched a manhunt for the attackers. According…