COURTROOM NEWS

The National Industrial Court has advised the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) and the union of its workers, the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), to amicably resolve their dispute. The matter, which came up yesterday for hearing the motion on notice before Justice…

Retired naval personnel, Igwe Dennis Nwaokpara, has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to compel Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to pay him N12 billion damages for its role in his removal from Kenya.  Nwaokpara, who runs an agro-allied business in Kenya, alleged…

A businessman, Kunle Akinbo, has told a Samuel Ilori Magistrate’s Court, Ogbà, Lagos, how his friend, Joel Oladipupo, allegedly defrauded him of the sum of N9m. Akinbo also claimed that Oladipupo, a pastor, used charms to attack him when he demanded his money. The…

The Bauchi High Court has restrained the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from tempering with the property of Bauchi State Government or doing anything capable of disrupting the smooth running of its offices and companies pending the hearing and determination of…

A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, has declared Senator Prince Bassey Otu as the authentic All Progressives Congress governorship candidate for the 2023 elections. A governorship aspirant, Senator Owan Enoh, had gone to…

Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, October 24, 2022, ordered the final forfeiture of two Abuja properties and two luxury cars belonging to a former minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to the Federal Government. The two…

The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Monday reserved judgment in an application by the Federal Government seeking a stay of execution of the court’s judgment that ordered the release of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Justice…

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the court’s deputy chief registrar to notify the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, of the pendency of Abdulrasheed Maina’s suit. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order shortly after Maina’s counsel, Ibrahim Idriss, SAN,…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has appealed the judgment of the Federal High Court, which ordered the garnishee of the sum of N38 billion belonging to the federal and 36 state governments for the payment of an alleged judgment debt. The apex…