COURTROOM NEWS

Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, restrained the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and its Director, Corps Certification, Ibrahim Muhammad, from issuing, publishing or continued to issue, publish disclaimer to the effect that the NYSC certificate…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, May 15, 2023, filed a motion for stay of execution of the ruling by Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on the 14 properties as well as…

The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division on Monday granted an ex-parte application filed on May 12, 2023 by Seplat Energy seeking to suspend the ruling of the lower Court in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/626/2023. The ex-parte application with Appeal No.: CA/ABJ/PRE/CV/534MI/2023 was filed by…

The Ogun State Election Petition Tribunal has dismissed petitions brought before it by the state chapters of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and the Action People’s Party (APP) against the Governor of the State, Prince Dapo Abiodun and the All Progressives…

The Enugu- South East Zone of the Tax Appeal Tribunal has declared that Abia State Internal Revenue Service has no legal basis to demand remittances of deductions on electronic receipts from banks, including the Unity Bank PLC, that the Finance Act, 2021…

The dispute between the National Executive Council of the Nigerian Bar Association and one of its former General-Secretaries has ended up in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory. The former General Secretary, Hon. Nimi Walson-Jack, has filed a suit in…

A Federal High Court in Warri, Delta State, has held that the Chairman of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Lauretta Onochie, has no executive powers in the day-to-day running of the commission. The court, in a judgment delivered on…

A legal practitioner, Emmanuel Ekpenyong, has approached the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal to set aside the judgment of the Federal High Court which nullified some sections of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), 2020, for infringing on the…

Justice Hamza Muazu of an Abuja High Court on Friday held that the court has jurisdiction to entertain suit filed by some members of the Labour Party (LP), seeking the removal of the party’s National Chairman, Julius Abure; the National Organising Secretary, Mr.…

The Presiding Judge, Calabar Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court, Hon. Justice Sanusi Kado has ordered the Governor of Cross River State to immediately pay the former members of the Cross River State Judicial Service Commission, Barr. (Mrs.) Mary Adeyemi, Dr.…