A Court dismisses appeal against citizens’ right to public information

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has delivered two landmark judgments affirming citizens’ right to access public information, dismissing separate appeals filed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and ordering ...

NBA holds protest, warns of danger to democracy over Navy’s ‘defiance of court’

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Lagos Branch, has staged a peaceful protest at the Nigerian Navy’s yard against what it described as unlawful actions in defiance of a subsisting court judgment. The lawyers ...

Participants at the 7th Investigations, Compliance and Ethics (ICE) Summit have emphasised the need for companies to embrace compliance and ethics, which they said foster a culture of excellence. They also harped on ...

ABUJA -Justice Bello Kawu, of High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has ordered the Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS) to pay the sum of N6.2million to a driver, Osayemwen Idahosa, over the violation ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja has scheduled September 24, 25, and 26, 2025, for the federal government to conclude its case in the prolonged trial of Sambo Dasuki (retd.), former National Security Adviser. ...

The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL) has urged the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) and the Federal Government to suspend ...

Emeka Nwite, the presiding judge, issued the order on Tuesday following an ex-parte application moved by Wisdom Madaki, counsel to the IGP. The defendants in the suit are Sowore, Sahara Reporters Media Foundation, ...

Court rules EFCC can press on with corruption investigation

A Nigerian judge has ruled that the country’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), may continue its corruption investigation into a businessman who tried to halt the probe ...

Terrorism Funding: Court Orders Banks to Furnish IG with Accounts Linked to Sowore

A Federal High Court judge in Abuja, Justice Emeka Nwite, has ordered six banks to furnish the Inspector General (IG) of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, with information regarding some accounts linked to rights activists ...

An Upper Customary Court in Kaduna has ordered that a corpse wrongly buried in Fadiya, Zangon Kataf LGA of Kaduna State be exhumed and given a proper burial in accordance with the tradition and custom of Bajju ...

River Park Estate Dispute: Court Orders Parties to Maintain Status Quo as Controversial Police Letter Surfaces

An Abuja High Court has ordered parties in the lingering ownership dispute at River Park Estate to maintain the status quo, halting further development activities on the contested land until the substantive issues ...

Court orders forfeiture of N5b shares tied to Ex-Army Director

Justice Dehinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday ordered the final forfeiture of 245,568,137 shares, valued at over N5 billion, traced to a former Group Managing Director of Nigerian Army ...

MIXED reactions have trailed Federal High order directing six banks to release human rights activist Omoyele Sowore’s account records and transaction details to the Inspector-General of Police, covering January ...

The Lagos State House of Assembly is on the cusp of a major transformation for the state’s energy sector. A public hearing was held on Thursday for the proposed Ibile Energy Corporation Law, a bill designed to ...

Court orders parties in River Park Estate to stay action, adjourns sine die

Justice C.O. Agachieze of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, has ordered the parties involved in the disputed ownership of River Park Estate in Abuja to maintain the status quo ante and adjourned the case ...

The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the final forfeiture of shares worth more than N246 million traced to U.M. Mohammed, former Managing Director of Nigerian Army Properties Limited (NAPL), to the Federal ...

Court orders interim forfeiture of N20m linked to National Steel Council Contract fraud

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the interim forfeiture of N20 million alleged to be proceeds of contract fraud involving the National Steel Council (NSC). Justice Emeka Nwite granted the order on Tuesday ...

Nigerian court to rule on bail for 2022 church attack suspects next month

Five men charged with carrying out a deadly Islamist militant attack on a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria in 2022 were remanded in custody on Tuesday until a court ruling on September 10 on their application ...

Demolition: Court orders Daniel to present property documents

The Ogun State High Court sitting in Sagamu on Tuesday directed former governor of the state and Senator representing Ogun East, Gbenga Daniel to present the necessary documents requested by the state government in ...

Politics FG condemns Canadian court ruling branding PDP, APC as terrorist groups Published7 days ago onAugust 15, 2025 ByObinna Ezugwu Nigeria’s federal government has rejected a Canadian federal court decision ...