NEWS RELEASE FEDERAL HIGH COURT AWARDS ₦15 MILLION IN FAVOUR OF ALHAJI SANUSI BADAMASI NABABA AGAINST KYC AND POLICE OVER CIVIL DISPUTE; COURT DISOWNS PURPORTED ARREST WARRANT The Federal High Court, Abuja, has awarded a total of ₦15 million in damages to businessman, Alhaji Sanusi Badamasi Nababa, after finding that KYC Inter Project Limited, its...
A Lagos State High Court has dismissed a suit filed by senior lawyer, Mr. Ademola Owolabi, seeking to set aside legal advice issued by the Lagos State Attorney General recommending his prosecution over a disputed land transaction. Justice Olalekan Oresanya held that the court lacked the jurisdiction to review the correctness of the Attorney General’s...
The Electoral Committee for the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Port Harcourt Branch has suspended the branch elections scheduled for tomorrow in obedience to an order of a high court sitting in Port Harcourt. In a move that has been hailed as exemplary and a show of respect for the majesty of the courts, the committee...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday commenced the trial of billionaire businessman, Chief Ukatu Afamefuna Mallinson, alongside two associates, Pius Enidom and Sunday Ifeanyi Ibekwute, before the Federal High Court in Lagos over allegations of conspiracy, unlawful possession and trafficking in 322 kilogrammes of Tramadol. The trial commenced before Justice Yellim Bogoro...
NOTICE OF DISPUTE AND WARNING AGAINST TRANSACTIONS OVER CERTAIN PLOTS AT GUZAPE DISTRICT, ABUJA The general public is hereby informed that the residential plots listed below – situated at Cadastral Zone A09, Abdulrahman Okene Street, Off Nasir El-Rufai Crescent, Guzape District, FCT-Abuja – are currently the subject of multiple pending legal disputes as well as...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu 1993 was the year that changed Nigeria’s judiciary. Over a period of a mere five months, the military in that year contrived to overthrow government twice. First, in June, Ibrahim Babangida, the army General who was Nigeria’s military ruler at the time, nullified an election organized to determine who would succeed...
The Supreme Court sitting in Abuja has delivered a unanimous 5-member panel judgement that contained some of the strongest rebukes against the weaponisation of judicial processes in recent history. The Apex Court strongly criticised the Court of Appeal’s grant of a restorative ex parte order, describing the situation as a “judicial tragedy”. It emphasised that...
Are We at a Judicial Crossroads with the Decisions of Justices Umar and Omotosho on INEC’s Electoral Guidelines? The two decisions of the Federal High Court delivered respectively by Justice Mohammed G. Umar and Justice James Kolawole Omotosho are already generating intense constitutional and electoral discourse within legal circles. Both judgments dealt with the legality...
Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its leaders, a jury in Oakland, California, decided on Monday. A lawsuit he filed was barred by the statute of limitations, the jury found after about 90 minutes of deliberation. Their verdict was advisory, but Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said she agrees with the jury. “The...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice have asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit seeking to stop Jonathan from contesting the 2027 presidential election. Justice Peter Lifu fixed May 26 for a composite judgment, including a ruling on an application by the...