•INEC Chairman, Joash Amupitan The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to appear on March 10 to answer a contempt charge filed by the National Rescue Mission (NRM). Justice Obiora Egwuatu fixed the date after INEC’s counsel, M.S. Bawa, requested an...
•Late Chief Judge Abutu Normal court activities will dwindle from July 28, when all Federal High Court divisions across the country are expected to proceed on the court’s annual vacation. The court’s spokesperson, Dr. Catherine Oby Christopher, who announced this in two separate statements today, also disclosed the death of Federal High Court’...
•Justice John Tsoho The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, has ordered the immediate redeployment of five judges across various judicial divisions of the court. This was disclosed in an official statement signed by the Director of Information at the Federal High Court of Nigeria, Catherine Christopher. According to the ...
•Senator Natasha A Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja Kogi State capital has set aside an earlier ruling that restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from receiving the recall process initiated by constituents of Kogi Central Senatorial District against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. The Federal High Court in a land...
The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, Honourable Justice John Tsoho, today, said the court will embark on its annual Easter vacation from April 16 to April 28. According to a circular signed by Hon. Justice John Tsoho, the vacation is pursuant to the provisions of Order 46, Rule 4 (C) of […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is contesting a Federal High Court order preventing it from seizing properties linked to an alleged Ponzi scheme operated by Bliss Multinational Perfections Limited and Bribena. The court, presided over by Justice Isa H. A. Dashen in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, granted the order on September 4, r...
•APC National Chairman Abdullahi Ganduje The Federal High Court in Kano has intervened in the purported suspension of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, by his ward. The court order came yesterday following an ex parte motion filed by Ganduje, seeking to enforce his fundamental right to a fair hear...

