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The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal has set aside the judgment of Federal High Court Abuja, removing Godswill Akpabio as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District. A three-member panel of justices read by Justice…

Child rights activist, Amb. Wale Ojo-Lanre, has sued the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, for N50m as damages for allegedly involving an underage girl-child in his political rally in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ojo-Lanre had on…

The Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, has nullified the All Progressives Congress governorship primary conducted on May 26, 2022, and ordered that fresh governorship primary within 14 days. Delivering judgment on Monday, November 14, 2022, the presiding…

THE Court of Appeal in Abuja has reserved judgment in the two appeals by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate in the last governorship election in Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola. A three-member panel of the court took the decision on…

The fight by the Professional Footballers Association of Nigeria (PFAN), to bring equity, fair and equal representation to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), its Congress, Executive Board and Sub-Committees, continues as the Appeal Court of the Federal Capital Territory Division has fixed…

The Presiding Judge, Benin Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court, Hon. Justice Adunola Adewemimo has convicted and sentenced Joyce Amenze to one-year imprisonment and payment of N2m as fine on a 2-count charge bordering on Human Trafficking, punishable under Section 18(1)…

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos presided over by Justice D. E. Osiagor, has dismissed the Stay of Execution suit filed by former President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, Bola-Audu Innocent and others, in respect of his…

Hon. Justice Elizabeth Oji of the Lagos Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court has declared the stoppage of Mr. Peter Ibitoye’s pension in June 2016 by Lagos State University of Science and Technology, Lagos State Pension Commission and Lagos State Government…

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja has declared former Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Uchechukwu Ogah, as the duly elected Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State. Delivering Judgment Justice Nyako invalidated…