COURTROOM NEWS

The Lagos State Governorship, National and State Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal has received a total of 48 petitions in respect of the 2023 elections held on Feb 25th and March 11. A breakdown of the petitions as obtained from the Secretariat…

The Independent National Electoral Commission ((INEC) has for the first time responded to accusations that it failed to follow the Electoral Act 2022 and also failed to abide by its own guidelines on mode of collation of results in the last presidential…

The Supreme Court has affirmed the jurisdiction of the Investments and Securities Tribunal (IST) over capital market disputes. In a case spanning 15 years, the apex court has ruled that the IST is the court of first instance for resolution of capital market…

Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the winding up of Anyiam Osigwe Group Limited following its inability to pay N750million debt owed to First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) Plc since November 2006. Justice Faji granted the order…

The Election Petitions Tribunal in Anambra State has received 31 petitions with respect to the February 25 National Assembly elections in the state.Secretary to the tribunal, Mr. Muazu Bagudu, told journalists in Awka yesterday that 24 of the petitions were on the…

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over the N5 million fine on Channels Television. In the suit, they are asking the court to “declare arbitrary, illegal…

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the March 18 governorship election in Ogun State, Ladi Adebutu, has stormed the election petition tribunal sitting in Abeokuta to file his petition. Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Governor…

The government of Abia State, in a special announcement by the Commissioner for Information, Dr. Eze Chikamnayo, yesterday, said the ex parte order made on March 28 by an Abuja High Court freezing accounts of the state government in various financial institutions…

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has vacated the interim ex-parte order stopping Mr Roger Brown, from parading himself as the Chief Executive Officer of Seplat Energy Plc. Justice Chukwuejekwu Aneke vacated the order while ruling on the applications filed by Seplat…

A State High Court sitting in Benin, on Wednesday, restrained Labour Party and all its members from any suspension of its national officers till the determination of motion on notice. Labour Party lawyer, G. C. Igbokwe (SAN) confirmed to journalists that he has…