A Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an order freezing the bank accounts of 32 individuals and companies allegedly linked to the #EndBadGovernance protests that took place across Nigeria. The court’s ...

The fundamental right enforcement suit filed by two traders at the popular International Trade Fair, Lagos, against Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, has been struck out by a ...

A Lagos High Court will on October 14 hear two cases involving former Group Executive Director of National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS) and former Pro-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, ...

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to vacate the ex-parte order it made restricting national protest to Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja. Justice Sylvanus Oriji had on July 31, confined the protesters to the National ...

Justice Olufunke Sule-Amzat of the Lagos High Court has ordered Industrial and General Insurance (IGI) Plc., to pay N10,123,873 damages to its customer, John Ifeanyi Nweke, for breach of insurance contract. The ...

The first female Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mrs Folake Solanke has urged legal professionals to maintain high standards in the profession. The SAN gave the charge at the 64th yearly general conference of the ...

A law firm, Sovereignty Legal Practitioners, has threatened to file a class action against British Airways over the systematic inhuman treatment of Nigerian passengers using the airline. In a pre-action letter to ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has obtained judgments on two public interest litigations in Nigeria. In the first judgment, the Federal High Court, Abuja ordered the Independent ...

Concerned about the widespread inappropriate dispensing of drugs under the country’s Social Health Insurance Scheme, the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) is contemplating legal action to ...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Bolaji Ayorinde has threatened to sue Hussaini Ishaq Magaji, SAN, the Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) due to an alleged defamatory publication ...

The Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN) will discuss the theme of restructuring and insolvency at its yearly international conference billed to hold in Lagos from September ...

Lagos-based lawyer Evans Ufeli has filed a suit at the Federal High Court, Lagos against the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the Attorneys General of Lagos and Ogun states, seeking a judicial review and ...

Amytorix Company Limited, owners of properties in Alma Beach, Ikate area of Lagos has filed contempt proceedings against the Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) ...

Public policy analyst, Sesugh Akume, has sued the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) over its failure to address a matter reported to the commission since March 31, 2023. Two others were also sued: the national ...

here are challenges faced by rape victims in accessing justice, due to cultural attitudes and prosecution practices. These challenges inhibit justice for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) victims in many ...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, has expressed the judiciary’s commitment to embrace information technology to advance justice delivery in the country. This declaration was made at a ...

The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has appealed against the decision of a Federal High Court (FHC), in Abuja dismissing his objection to his trial continuation. In Kanu’s ...

A Federal High Court, Abeokuta, Ogun State has dismissed a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed against the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and two others for lacking in merit. The suit, marked ...

WEMABOD Limited has asked a Lagos High Court for an order of perpetual injunction, restraining the purported buyers of Casino Heights, who acquired their interest from GTL Properties Limited from leasing the ...

A Federal High Court, Lagos has granted leave to Brightwaters Energy to advertise the winding up of Eroton Exploration & Production Company, which owes it a consent judgment debt of $20 million. Justice Akintayo ...