COURTROOM NEWS

Preliminary inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the death of Master Adebola Akin-Bright, the 12-year-old boy with the missing intestine who died at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), commenced on Friday before the coroner, Magistrate Bola Folarin-Williams, sitting at Magistrate Court 4,…

The Presiding Judge, Lokoja Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court, Hon. Justice Oyebiola Oyewumi has rejected the constituency allowance and severance benefit claims filed by former House of Assembly members, Hon. Aliyu and 5 others against the Speaker Kogi State House…

The Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, urges the Supreme Court to set aside technicalities and allow him to present new evidence supporting his claim that President Bola Tinubu submitted forged documents to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) during the…

A Chief District Court of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, his Honour, Emmanuel Iyanna, has restrained on-air-personality mister Kayode Oladotun popularly known as Do2dtun, from posting defamatory posts against singer Oladapo Oyebanjo, also known as D’banj, on social media or any other…

A Benue High Court sitting in Makurdi, has held that former Governor and his deputy, Mr Samuel Ortom’s and Mr Benson Abounu’s suit against the Governor and Government of Benue sought to delimit the governor’s constitutional powers. Delivery the judgement on Wednesday, Justice…

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has struck out the charge filed by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) against Senator Ifeanyi Ubah and his company, Capital Oil and Gas limited, over an alleged N135bn indebtedness. Justice Nicholas Oweibo struck out…

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has declared as unconstitutional, the Special Task Force on Illegal Smuggling of Firearms that was set up by Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State. A concerned indigene of the state, Ahmadu Danjuma had in a suit…

A compulsorily retired Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, Mr Moses Ambakina Jitoboh, has prayed the National Industrial Court, NIC, sitting in Abuja, to declare his purported compulsory retirement by Police Service Commission, PSC, before his mandatory 60 years retirement age or…