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Nigeria Loses Compensation Bid over Glencore Bribery

Nigeria’s bid to claim compensation from a British subsidiary of mining and trading group Glencore over bribes paid to officials at Nigeria’s state oil company has been denied by a London court. Lawyers representing the country told London’s Southwark Crown Court that Nigerian…

28/10/2022

Mobil Challenges Industrial Court Ruling and Contempt Notice

Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited has challenged the validity of a ruling of the National Industrial Court delivered on August 15, 2022, directing Mobil to furnish security in a sum in anticipation of an adverse judgment against it in a suit instituted by…

28/10/2022

Chief Judge Transfers Pre-Election Suits Against INEC, Labour Party To Lagos Division

The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, has ordered the transfer of 68 cases filed against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Labour Party (LP), in Abuja to the Lagos Division of the court, where the…

27/10/2022

Retired Lagos Judge, Businessman in Legal Tussle over Property

A retired Judge, Justice Grace Onyeabo, alongside a cleric, Reverend Mrs. Nwakife Onuzo, has dragged a businessman, Isaac Oghale Ikede, before a Lagos High Court at Osborne in Ikoyi, Lagos, over alleged trespass on their property at Unit C6 and Unit C7…

27/10/2022

Rivers APC Suspends Campaign Over Court Verdict

The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Wednesday said it would neither be intimidated nor discouraged by the Federal High Court judgment that sacked all its candidates for the 2023 general elections. A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt…

27/10/2022

Court Stops Kogi Govt from Shutting Down Dangote Cement, Others

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, restrained the Kogi government from shutting down Dangote Cement PLC in Obajana area of the state. The court also stopped the state government from disrupting or suspending the activities of Dangote Coal Mines Ltd and Dangote…

26/10/2022

Court Orders Access Bank to Pay N13.2m into Chief Registrar Account Pending Determination of Appeal

Hon. Justice Polycarp Hamman of the National Industrial Court, Portharcourt Judicial division has dismissed the application for a stay of execution filed by Judgment Debtor-National Salt Company of Nigeria Plc against the Judgment Creditor- Mr. Omunna Ekem and made the Garnishee Order…

26/10/2022

Kanu Seeks N100bn Damages Against FG Over Continued Violation Of Court Order

The embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has commenced a Fundamental Right Action before the Federal High Court in Abuja, to demand payment of One Hundred Billion Naira (N100,000,000,000) as reparation for the gross violation of…

26/10/2022

BREAKING: Return Kanu To Kenya, Court Orders FG

A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, has ordered the Federal Government to pay the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, the sum of N500 million as damages following his illegal abduction and human rights…

26/10/2022

Lagos Govt Orders Inquest into Bimbo Ogbonna’s Death

THE Lagos State Government, yesterday, ordered a coroner’s inquest into death of late Bimbo Ogbonna, who allegedly died recently due to severe fire injuries as a result of domestic violence. The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo, SAN, gave the directive recently,…

26/10/2022

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