•Late Benjamin Kiplagat Two suspects appeared in a Kenyan court on Tuesday over the murder of Ugandan Olympic athlete Benjamin Kiplagat who was found dead at the weekend with a stab wound to his neck. The two men were ordered detained for 21 days by a magistrate’s court in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret […]
•Governor Yusuf The Forty-four Local Government Areas of Kano State have dragged the state government before a Federal High Court in Abuja over moves by the state government to use their allocations to jointly finance a N27 billion interchange projects in the state capital. Listed also as defendants in the suit that is currently before [&helli...
•Some of the properties of Bauchi State government seized by Muhab Engineering Nigeria Limited The Bauchi State High Court has ruled that a contractor with the State, Muhab Engineering Nigeria Limited, should take over some properties belonging to the State Urban Planning and Development Board (BSUDPB) to recover N62,545,051.19 debt owed by th...
A Federal High Court in Abuja today extended the Dec. 15 interim order stopping the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from taking any action step against the 26 Rivers House of Assembly members who defected to All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Donatus Okorowo extended the order follo...
An Abuja High Court has restrained one Pedro Chibuzo and Ekundinu Segun Elvis from parading themselves as National President of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and Senate President respectively. The duo had been claiming to represent the interests of students despite not being officially elected, reports The Nation. The court ...
•Wike, Fubara and Tinubu The political crisis in Rivers State has assumed a new twist, as six elders have dragged President Bola Tinubu to the Federal High Court in Abuja, for allegedly compelling Governor Siminilaya Fubara to enter into an unconstitutional agreement. The plaintiffs, led by a member of the Rivers State House of Assembly [&hell...
•Peter Mbah The Supreme Court, today, upheld the election of Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State. The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a five-man panel of Justices, dismissed an appeal that the Labour Party, LP, and its candidate, Chijioke Edeoga, filed to challenge the outcome of the governorship election that held in the […]
The Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) has lost its final appeal against Nigeria in an eleven-billion-dollar arbitration case. The P&ID sought to overturn an October judgement by a London High Court that halted the enforcement for damages over a failed gas processing project, reports AFP. The High Court had earlier ruled in Octo...
The Supreme Court today, reserved judgment in an appeal brought before it by Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano state challenging the decision of the Court of Appeal, Abuja which sacked him from office. After hearing the submissions of counsel in the matter and the processes filed had been adopted, the five-member panel of the apex […]
UEFA said today’s ruling by Europe’s top court that it and FIFA had broken EU law to stifle the creation of a rival Super League “does not signify an endorsement or validation of” the breakaway competition. UEFA continued: “It rather underscores a pre-existing shortfall within UEFA’s pre-authorisation framework, a technical aspect that has alr...

