The FCT High Court presided over by Hon. Justice Bamodu last Wednesday dismissed a suit filed by Mr. Onyechi Egwuonwu, a senior lawyer, against Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama, SAN, Petro-Union Oil & Gas Oil Company, Union Bank, Central Bank of Nigeria and attorney-General of the Federation bordering on legal representation of Petro-Union Oil & Gas Company....
The Nigerian government has filed cybercrime charges against former Kaduna State Governor, Mr. Nasir El-Rufai, at the Federal High Court in Abuja, over the alleged unlawful interception of the phone communications of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu. The case marked FHC/ABJ/CR/99/2026 was filed on Monday, barely three days after El-Rufai said during a...
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Opay Digital Service Limited, one of the fintech mobile money firms operating in Nigeria, has been dragged before a Federal High Court, Lagos, by one of its customers over alleged unlawful freezing of his account. According to the applicant, Moses King, the alleged illegal act led to his father’s death. King instituted the suit against...
The Nigerian Bar Association, Port Harcourt Branch has conferred Excellence Awards on Justice Williams-Dawodu of the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division as well as Justices Kola-Olalere and Hamza Mohammad of the National Industrial Court. The NBA Port Harcourt Chairman Cordelia Uwuma Eke stated that “the awards are in recognition of their Lordships exemplary punctuality,...
The Enugu State Judiciary is currently under national spotlight as the fourth judge yesterday recused himself from an appeal filed by embattled senior lawyer, Mr. Bright Ngene over his conviction by an Enugu Magistrate Court. Ngene has been languishing at the Enugu Correctional Centre for nearly two years amid prolonged delays in the hearing of his...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, January 29, 2026 arraigned BFI Group Corporation, Reuben M. Jaja, Uzor Chidi Jerry, David Femi James, Imeobong Jumbo Udom, Adeola Edward and Emeka Emmanuel Okorie before Justice M. S. Idris of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Jabi, Abuja for alleged fraud to the tune...
More than £2m was spent at Harrods on behalf of a then-Nigerian oil minister accused of accepting bribes from industry figures interested in government contracts, a court in London has heard. Diezani Alison-Madueke, 65, is alleged to have been provided with “a life of luxury in the United Kingdom”, including the use of multimillion-pound properties,...
BY UCHENNA NWAFOR My Justification: Mike Ozekhome, SAN, Represents Peace, Justice, and the Voice for the Voiceless in Nigeria. For over four decades, Chief Mike Agbedor Abu Ozekhome, SAN, has stood as one of Nigeria’s most fearless defenders of the oppressed, the marginalized, and the constitution itself. His name is inseparable from Nigeria’s human rights...
A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has convicted one Victor Ogiemwonyi and his firm, Partnership Securities Limited, over fraud involving N953.5 million and $80,000 linked to the sale of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) shares. Justice Modupe Nicole-Clay, on January 21, found Ogiemwonyi and his company guilty of stealing proceeds from the sale of...