•ECOWAS Court of Justice The President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Justice Ricardo Gonçalves, has called on civil society organisations to take a leading role in ensuring the enforcement of the court’s judgments, warning that justice without enforcement remains incomplete. Justice Gonçalves made the call today, in Abuja, while addressing c...
•Property demolition in Lagos The Association of Igbo Town Unions, ASITU, has petitioned the United Nations Human Rights Council, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the ECOWAS Court of Justice over the persistent demolition of shops and properties belonging to Igbo traders and investors in Lagos. National President of ASI...
•Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State Leaders of the Ijaw Youth Council, Eastern Zone, have dragged the Tinubu-led federal government before the ECOWAS Court of Justice, over what they described as illegal suspension of Governor Siminalaye Fubara of Rivers State and other elected officials, by President Bola Tinubu. The 12 litigants, led...
The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, today, dismissed a suit that was brought against the federal government over the assassination of Mrs Kudirat, wife of the acclaimed winner of the 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola. The suit, marked: ECW/CCJ/APP/62/22 was brought before the Court by three...
Amnesty International yesterday hailed the ruling of the ECOWAS Court, which ordered the federal government to conduct a fresh investigation into rights violations that occurred during the October 2020 #EndSARS protests across Nigeria. The Director Amnesty International Nigeria, Isa Sanusi, in a statement reiterated the organisation’s commitme...

