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March 6, 2021 No Responses

Court Reserves Judgment In Suit Against Airtel, Glo Over Caller Tunes

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday reserved judgement until May 26, in a suit filed by an artiste, Mr Bright Okiki, against some telecommunication companies over alleged copyright infringement. Justice Nicholas Oweibo reserved judgement in the suit numbered...

February 26, 2021 No Responses

SEC Wins As Court Strikes Out Oando Directors‘ Suit

The Federal High Court sitting at Abuja, in a judgement delivered on Thursday, February 25, 2021, by Hon. Justice F.O.G. Ogunbanjo, struck out three (3) cases filed by Oando Plc and some of its directors against the Securities and Exchange Comm...

February 6, 2021 No Responses

Court Orders C/River To Repay $6.4m To ECOWAS Bank

The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the government of Cross River State to repay the sum of US$6,455,846 to the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID). In its ruling on Friday, the court also ordered the Nigerian State...

January 20, 2021 No Responses

Court Remands Dismissed FRSC Personnel Over Alleged N673,000 Fraud

An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday ordered the remand of a dismissed personnel of the Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC), Tokunbo Ajisafe, accused of defrauding one Raji Jimoh of N673,000.The defendant, who was arraigned on a three-count charge of crimina...

January 13, 2021 No Responses

Court Remands Hairstylist For Allegedly Beating Up Ex-Husband

A Grade I Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja, on Tuesday ordered that a 23-year old hairstylist, Gift Paul, who allegedly beat up her former husband be remanded in a correctional facility. The police charged Paul with criminal trespass, assault and...

January 12, 2021 No Responses

Court Nullifies Sack Of Tribune Staff

The National Industrial Court in Ibadan, on Monday nullified the sack of Mr Kareem Popoola, a staff of African Newspaper of Nigeria PLC, Publisher of Nigerian Tribune titles, by the company . Popoola, a former President of staff cooperative society...

January 8, 2021 No Responses

Mobile Courts Convict 76 Traffic Offenders

The Zone 4 Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) comprising Plateau, Benue and Nasarawa States, commenced OPERATION ZERO TOLERANCE with the aim of ensuring sanity on the road during the Christmas and New Year Operations from 15 December,...

December 23, 2020 No Responses

Court Orders Divorce-Seeking Woman To Refund N50,000 Dowry

A Shari’a court sitting at Rigasa, Kaduna, on Tuesday ordered one Nur Aminu, 25, to refund the N50,000 dowry she received from her husband Abdulrahman Garba, in exchange for divorce. The judge, Malam Salisu Tureta, gave the order after the...

December 15, 2020 No Responses

My Husband Sleeps With Church Members, Pastor’s Wife Tells Court

“My husband is a womaniser, he sleeps with church members,’’ a 49-year-old evangelist, Chinwe Ekwe, told an Igando Customary Court on Monday in Lagos. Chinwe spoke while responding to a divorce suit filed by her husband, Pastor Paul Ekwe, who...

November 30, 2020 No Responses

Innoson Returns To Court, Faults GTBank On Holding Company Structure

The Federal High Court, Enugu, will on Monday, November 30, 2020 begin hearing in Innoson Nigeria Limited application to stop GTBank’s proposed Holding Company Structure. Innoson in a statement issued by its Head of Corporate Communications, Corne...

September 18, 2020 No Responses

FRSC Begins “Operation Road Sanitizer” As Mobile Court Convicts 434 Traffic Offenders

The Zone 4 Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) comprising Plateau, Benue and Nasarawa States, has commenced “OPERATION ROAD SANITIZER” aimed at ensuring sanity on the roads from 18th to 30th September, 2020. The ...

September 9, 2020 No Responses

Marriage Crashes Over Missing Underwear

A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Wednesday dissolved a marraige involving a trader, Sadia Abass, and her husband, Azeez, over a missing underwear. Sadia had petitioned the Court to dissolve her marriage over allegations that he had stolen her...

August 12, 2020 No Responses

NJC Approves Appointment Of Six New High Court Judges For Kano

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has approved the appointment of six new High Court Judges for Kano State. Mr Jibo Baba, the Public relations Officer (PRO) of the Kano State Judiciary, made the disclosure in a statement on Tuesday in...

August 8, 2020 No Responses

Court Dissolves Zamfara APC Executives

Zamfara State High Court lV on Friday dissolved the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership in the state and ordered for fresh election of the party executives at wards, local government and state levels. Justice Bello Tukur, who delivered the judgement,...