LEGAL

The Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Mr Danladi Umar, has said he will appeal the judgment of the Federal High Court delivered by Honourable Justice Inyang Ekwo on Tuesday, 26th April 2022. Umar and his lead counsel, Barrister Sunday Edward,…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari over “the failure to protect the rights to life, security, and dignity of the victims of the Abuja-Kaduna train attack, and the failure to secure…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, will on May 9, 2022 resume hearing on the appeal filed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service against the ruling of a Federal High Court that the Rivers State Government, and not…

The police on Friday, accused Ms Precious Chikwendu, the estranged wife of Chief Femi Fani-Kayode of threatening the lives of witnesses lined up in the alleged attempted murder charge against her. The offence, listed as count 14 in the new amended charge, was…

A suit seeking to disqualify the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, from participating in the All Progressives Congress presidential primary, on grounds of his non-eligibility, has been filed in a High Court in Port Harcourt. The plaintiff, Naapah…

Nigeria allegedly ignored pending proceedings at the Court of Appeal and Federal High Court in Lagos before extraditing a $148,000 wire fraud suspect, Adedunmola Gbadegesin, to the United States, according to documents. But the EFCC, which announced the extradition on Wednesday, did not…

The detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has gone to court to challenge the practice direction of the Federal High Court which ordered that his trial should be done in secret. He asked the court to declare that the…

A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Festus Ogun, has filed a suit against the President Muhammadu Buhari at the Federal High Court in Lagos over the excessive hardship Nigerians went through as a result of the fuel scarcity experienced earlier this year. In the suit,…

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Ifechukwuneme Eneh has dragged the party before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, asking it to nullify, set aside and invalidate any convention or congress of the party for the purpose…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari “over the failure to unblock the phone lines of over 72 million telecommunication subscribers barred from making calls on their SIMs.” The suit followed the recent directive by…