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Registered Trustees of Nigeria Olympic cmmittee and the International Olympic committee have dragged a Limited liability company Nutricima Nigeria Limited who are producers of Olympic Milk  before a Federal high court sitting in Lagos over an alleged passing off and infringing of…

A Taraba State High Court sitting in Jalingo has quashed the recommendation of the Fidelis Kaigama Committee set up to review the gazette of the state government on the ruling houses of the Jukun Konna Kingdom. The committee had in its report recommended…

The federal government has raised the alarm over the action of Kaduna State government which it claimed exposes the staff and students of Federal Government College, Malali to security threat. It dragged the state government to the High Court of Kaduna State…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission over its failure to investigate allegations of electoral violence and other electoral offences including bribery against some state governors and their deputies during the 2023 elections. According…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has filed a preliminary objection to a suit instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party and a chieftain of the party, Dino Melaye, against the president-elect, Bola Tinubu. The applicants are seeking an order of mandamus to compel…

A High Court in Plateau State has ordered the paramount ruler of the Izere nation in Jos East Local Government of the state, His Royal Highness, Isaac Azi Wakili, to pay N10 million as damages for installing one Dang Azi as the…

The former group managing director of the defunct Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, has instituted a suit against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the custody of $9.8m cash belonging to…

A 100-year-old man, Oladepo Ogunlade, and Musiliyu Ogundiran, 61, were on Friday arraigned before an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan for alleged land grabbing and destruction of economic trees. Ogunlade and Ogundiran were brought before the court on charges of conspiracy, land grabbing, malicious…

An Ondo State High Court has barred Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, from installing one Chief Alexander Akinnadeju as the Aladeokun of the Alade Idanre community in the Idanre local government area. The court presided over by Justice Idowu Kolawole also restrained Chief Akinnadeju from…

The National Industrial Court sitting in Kano has dismissed a preliminary objection filed by the Kano State Government against an exparte order restraining the state government from appointing any person as substantive Chairman of the state anti-corruption agency. In an earlier ruling of…