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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, Cornel Osigwe at the weekend explained...

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,...

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 ...

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...