The Supreme Court has fixed tomorrow, Thursday, April 30, for judgment in the leadership dispute rocking the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC). The apex court had reserved judgement in the case, prompting the opposition party to petition the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) that time was not on its side, reports Daily Trust. However, ...
The Supreme Court yesterday reserved judgment in the leadership tussles within the Peoples Democratic Party and the African Democratic Congress, heightening uncertainty over the internal stability of both parties ahead of the 2027 general elections. A five-member panel of the apex court, led by Justice Mohammed Garba, fixed no date for judgmen...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has welcomed the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja presided by Honourable Justice Umar which has granted all the reliefs sought by Dr. Oluwole Oluyede and the party in the suit FHC/ABJ/CS/40/2026 against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Specifically, the court frowned at the exclu...
The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the judicial validation of the 2025 National Convention of the party in Ibadan by an Oyo state High court on Friday, “as a constitutional landmark and a procedural endorsement”. Delivering judgement yesterday, Justice Ladiran Akintola affirmed that the Ibadan convention ...
•Nnamdi Kanu Aloy Ejimakor, Former counsel to the proscribed leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, says no number of lawyers could have altered the court’s decision convicting him of terrorism. Ejimakor spoke on Channels Television today where he dismissed suggestions that stronger legal representation might have changed t...
•Incarcerated IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed November 20 for judgment in the terrorism trial of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Justice Omotosho chose the date today while ruling after Kanu failed to open his defence having exhausted [&hel...
Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed October 31 for judgement in a suit seeking to stop the 2025 National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the grounds of alleged violations of the party’s rules. Justice Omotosho fixed the date after taking arguments for and against the suit […]
•Nigerian Flag and Coat of Arms The Federal Government of Nigeria has rejected and expressed deep concerns over the recent ruling by a Canadian Federal court that erroneously designates certain political parties in Nigeria as “terrorist organisations”. The Nigerian government called on the Canadian authorities to immediately retract this erron...
•Natasha In the interpretive hierarchy of judicial pronouncements, it is an elementary but enduring principle of law that obiter dicta, however persuasive or pronounced from the loftiest judicial altars, do not assume the force of law. The binding component of a judgment is the ratio decidendi — that is, the legal principle or rationale underp...
•Senator Natasha I consider it a duty to draw the attention of the general public to the ongoing legal developments surrounding the judgment delivered by Hon. Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on July 4, 2025, in the case instituted by the suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Contrary to misleading public narratives, ...
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