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July 22, 2020 No Responses

Court Dismisses PDP’s Suit Against Ogun EXCO

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, rejected the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Headquarters’ suit challenging the powers of the Ogun chapter of the party to conduct party congresses in the state. Justice Ahmed Mohammed, while delivering his judgment,...

July 10, 2020 No Responses

Mining Firm Drags Ebonyi To Court, Seeks N500m Compensation

A mining company, Crushed Rock Industries Ltd., on Thursday, dragged Ebonyi State Government before the Federal High Court, Abuja, demanding N500 million damages over alleged unlawful shutdown of its quarry site. In an originating summon with suit number: FHC/...

June 12, 2020 No Responses

Court Sentences Driver To 15-Year Jail For Raping Employer’s Daughter

An Ikeja Special Offences Court has sentenced a driver, Francis Apai, to 15 years imprisonment for raping his employer’s 17-year-old daughter in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Sherifat Solebo sentenced Apai after finding him gui...

February 27, 2020 No Responses

Diri: Supreme Court Only Affirmed God’s Judgment

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling was only affirmation of God’s judgement, which paved the way for him to emerge victorious. Senator Diri also said that there is no victor no vanquished as the...

January 28, 2020 No Responses

Car Dealer Drags Ex-Fiancée, Father To Court

A car dealer, Bashir Magaji on Monday dragged his former fiancée Sadiya Muhammad and her father Umar, before an upper Sharia court sitting at Tudun Wada. Kaduna for refusing his marriage proposal. The plaintiff, who resides in Tudun Wada, Kaduna,...

January 21, 2020 No Responses

Buhari Congratulates APC, Ganduje, Lalong On Supreme Court Verdict

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated his party, All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Supreme Court judgement that upheld the elections of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, Kano State and Governor Simon Lalong, Plateau State on Monday. The President felici...

October 15, 2019 No Responses

Firm Tackles CBN Over $285m Supreme Court Judgment

A communications firm, Interstella Communications Limited has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to obey a Supreme Court order by paying them $285 million judgment sum for alleged breach of contract. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that...

October 15, 2019 No Responses

Court Freezes 45 Bank Accounts

A Federal High Court on Monday in Abuja ordered the temporary freezing of 45 bank accounts belonging to three companies allegedly involved in smuggling of rice into Nigeria. The companies whose accounts were domiciled with ten commercial banks in Nigeria...

August 17, 2019 No Responses

UK Firm Gets Court Order To Seize $9b Nigerian Assets

A British judge has ordered the Nigerian government to pay $9bn in assets to a gas firm, P&ID. The firm, P&ID, had reached a deal with the Nigerian government in 2010 to build a natural gas plant – but the...

August 8, 2019 No Responses

FRSC Sokoto Tackles Reckless Driving As Court Jails Two For Assaulting Marshals

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Sokoto Zonal Command. Is set to deploy personnel and logistics including patrol vehicles and ambulances on all the major routes of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states in order to ease movement of vehicles and...

July 20, 2019 No Responses

Court Remands Two In Prison For Assaulting FRSC Marshals

A motorcycle rider named Yahaya Yakubu and a passerby Yusha’u Maishanu who assaulted an FRSC patrol team from Argungu Unit Command in Kebbi State on 18th July,2019, while resisting arrest have been remanded in Prison Custody till 24th July, 2019....

March 30, 2019 No Responses

GTBank Links Nigeria Customs To Supreme Court Judgment

The management of Guarantee Trust Bank Plc (GTBank) has resolved to take all necessary legal steps to ensure that “no illegal or fraudulent execution is carried out against the Bank”. In a notice sent to the Nigerian Stock Exchange ...

December 23, 2018 No Responses

Court Confirms $1.8b Oil Spill Compensation

Spain’s Supreme Court in Madrid upheld the ruling that the insurer and the captain of the Prestige oil tanker are to pay EUR 1.6 billion (USD 1.8 billion) in compensation. Under the final ruling, handed down on December 20, the...

November 22, 2017 No Responses

Ex Firstbank staff in court over alleged N7.1m fraud

An ex-banker, Anthony Akhogie, was on Tuesday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly defrauding First bank of N7.1 million. Akhogie, 26, who resides at Mushin area of Lagos State is facing three-count charge of conspiracy, forge...