•Dangote Refinery The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has taken the federal government to court over fresh fuel import licences issued to oil marketing companies in the country. Despite the refinery’s condemnation and rising domestic refining capacity, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, issued fresh fuel i...
•Convicted Halima Umar Justice Hauwa Yilwa of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has sentenced a woman, Halima Haliru Umar, to 20 years’ imprisonment following her conviction on the offences of unlawful possession of 302 rounds of AK-47 live ammunition and attempting to render support for the commission of acts of terrorism. The convict had, durin...
•Jonathan Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has rebuked Johnmary Jideobi, the plaintiff, and his lawyer, Ndubuisi Ukpai, over lack of diligence in pursuing the suit filed, seeking to stop former President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the 2027 presidential election. Justice Lifu, who described the plaintiff’s and his law...
•Saleh Mamman The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, to 75 years in prison for stealing public funds totalling about ₦33.8 billion. Delivering judgment, Justice James Omotosho convicted Mamman on all 12 counts of fraud and money laundering brought against him by the Economic and Financial ...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, rejected an application seeking to halt proceedings in a suit seeking the deregistration of African Democratic Congress (ADC), Accord Party (AP), Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) and Action Alliance Party (AAP) over alleged constitutional breaches. Also, the court set May 15 as a definite hearing date in a su...
•The suspects A Plateau State High Court in Jos has fixed July 1 and 2, 2026, for a definite hearing in the terrorism case arising from the Angwan Rukuba killings, involving four defendants accused of terrorism and committing acts of terrorism. The case came up today before Justice Gidelia Fomyon of Court 9 for a […]
The Federal High Court in Abuja today again adjourned indefinitely the suit filed by an African Democratic Congress chieftain, Nafiu Bala Gombe, challenging the party’s leadership under former Senate President David Mark. Justice Emeka Nwite adjourned the matter sine die after the plaintiff informed the court that he had applied to the Chief J...
•Jonathan A Federal High Court in Abuja today adjourned till Monday, May 11, 2026, a suit seeking to disqualify former President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the 2027 presidential election. Justice Peter Lifu adjourned the matter following an application by the plaintiff’s counsel, Ndubuisi Ukpai, who told the court that he was only recen...
•Jonathan A federal high court in Abuja will tomorrow hear a suit seeking to stop former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the 2027 presidential election. Justice Peter Lifu had on April 28 ordered that hearing notices be served on the defendants after they failed to file responses in the matter, reports The Guardian. The [&...
•Convicted Saleh Mamman Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted a former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, of a 12-count charge bordering on fraud and money laundering filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Delivering judgment, Justice Omotosho held that the anti-graft agency su...
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