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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…

The Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo the Taraba State capital has sacked Emmanuel Bwacha as Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for joining the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Simon Amobeda in his ruling ordered him to immediately vacate his…

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Friday, disqualified 16 candidates gunning for seats in the State House of Assembly on platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), from contesting in the 2023 general elections. Rivers State has a…

The Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Friday, November 11, struck out the certificates forgery case against the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, Pastor Umo Bassey Eno. It could be recalled that one of…

The crew of the crude oil carrier, MT Heroic IDUN has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to stop the Federal Government from “illegally” executing their “extraordinary rendition” of the vessel from Equatorial Guinea to Nigeria. The Lawyer earlier reported the…

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has awarded cost against the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in a suit filed by a retired naval personnel, Igwe Dennis Nwaokpara, alleging deportation/extraordinary rendition from Kenya and a five-year illegal seizure of his international passport. Justice Yellim…

Justice Salisu Danjidda of the National Industrial Court, Lagos Judicial division, has granted an order compelling H.T. Group Limited to pay her former employee, Ogunleye Peter, the sum of N2,450,000.00 salary arrears from the period of June 2018 to December 2018. The court…

For allegedly removing him unlawfully as a non-executive chairman of the newly incorporated Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Ararume, has slammed a N100bn lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari at a Federal High Court in Abuja. The former lawmaker is…

A Federal High Court sitting in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital, has again nullified the election of Dauda Lawan-Dare as the state Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate and disqualified the party from fielding a candidate for the state governorship election in 2023. Delivering…