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An Ado Ekiti High Court on Wednesday dismissed a suit instituted by a nine-year-old Junior Secondary School I student of Mary Immaculate Girls Grammar School, Ado Ekiti, filed by her mother. Respondents in the suit are the School Principal, Mrs Oluwasanmi Funmilayo, Ekiti…

The Federal Government, on Wednesday, produced 15 suspected invaders of the Supreme Court Judge, Justice Mary Odili, for arraignment at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The police arraigned 15 out of the 22 suspects alleged to have laid siege on the residence…

Ogar v. State CITATION: (2021) LPELR-55924(CA) In the Court of Appeal In the Kano Judicial Division Holden at Kano ON WEDNESDAY, 27TH OCTOBER, 2021 Suit No: CA/KN/411C/2019 Before Their Lordships: ITA GEORGE MBABA Justice, Court of Appeal HABEEB ADEWALE OLUMUYIWA ABIRU Justice, Court of Appeal USMAN ALHAJI MUSALE Justice,…

Justice Maryam Hassan Aliyu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Jabi Abuja, on Tuesday, December 14, 2021, refused an application filed by a former Chairman of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Dr. Ngozi Olejeme to proceed on an urgent trip…

The National Industrial Court (NIC) sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has upturned the decision by the authorities of the Federal University, Otuoke, to demote an associate Professor in Modern Sciences, Dr. Timothy Falade-Obalade Adedapo to a Senior Lecturer of the Institution, declaring…

The High Court of Lagos State has set aside the sale of a property on 59, Olonade Street, Yaba, by the wife of the Alake of Egbaland, Olori Tokunbo Gbadebo. Justice Justice A.M. Nicol-Clay agreed with submissions of the plaintiffs’ counsel, George M.…

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced a fake oil magnate, Dr. Vincent Ayigor to 175 years imprisonment . The court presided over by Justice A.T Mohammed found Ayigor guilty for duping an American, Joseph Crews,…

Danish man, Peter Nielsen, accused of killing his Nigerian wife and daughter, on Tuesday told a Lagos High Court that he realised that his wife and daughter had died before a doctor arrived. Nielsen said he had to cover them with two blankets…

The Federal High Court Abuja has discharged and acquitted Shamsudeen Bala, son of former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Bala Mohammed on 11 out of 20-count charges preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC). Justice Nnamdi Dimgba…

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has been docked before Justice O. Abike-Fadipe of Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja for alleged forgery. Fani-Kayode was charged before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a 12-count charge bordering on…