Judge cautions debtors must repay debts rather than file cases
Nestoil, Neconde, Ernest Obiejesi and Nnenna Obiejesi’s appeals suffer major set back as Supreme Court orders them back to the Court of Appeal The Supreme Court sitting in Abuja today…
LG accounts: Osun files charges against bank officials, court hearing holds Jan 30
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, has fixed January 30, 2026, for the hearing of a criminal case instituted by Osun State government against United…
Court dismisses N1b copyright infringement claim against MTN
Hon. Justice Ayokunle Olayinka Faji of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has dismissed a N1 billion lawsuit filed against MTN Nigeria Communications Plc by Walls and Gates Ltd and its…
SERAP charges INEC to court over alleged mismanagement of N55.9b election funds
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to publicly account for N55.9 billion allegedly…
Court reinstates Igwe as Enugu neuropsychiatric hospital’s MD
The National Industrial Court (NICN) has ordered the Federal Government to reinstate Prof. Monday Igwe as the Medical Director of Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu State, after holding that the purported…
Industrial court bars resident doctors from planned strike
The National Industrial Court in Abuja has issued an interim injunction restraining the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) and its agents from embarking on any form of industrial action,…
Court admits more exhibits in ex-Kwara gov’s N5.78bn corruption trial
A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday admitted additional exhibits in the ongoing N5.78bn corruption trial of former Governor Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed and his former Commissioner for…
Jigawa court sentences rapist, Abubakar Muhd, to death
A Jigawa State High Court has sentenced a rapist, Abubakar Muhd, to death by hanging and ordered him to pay N5m in compensation to his 15-year-old victim. That the case…
No bribe was offered, no judge was approached, and no attempt was made to compromise the court – Malami
The immediate past Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has denied claims that anyone connected to him attempted to bribe or improperly influence the presiding judge, Justice Emeka Nwite,…