The Police Service Commission has denied allegations that senior police officers paid N5 million each to secure promotion to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police. A report by Sahara Reporter alleged that officers bribed officials of the Commission to secure promotion from the rank of Chief Superintendent of Police to Assistant Commissi...
•President John Mahama of Ghana A civil society group has filed a lawsuit seeking to declare illegal the deportation deal between Ghana and the US government, and the way the West African deportees are being treated, court documents show. Ghanaian leader John Mahama disclosed last month that his country had struck a deal with the […]
•Femi Otedola Nigerian businessman, Femi Otedola, has instructed his lawyers to file a N1 billion lawsuit against Umar Sani, a former spokesperson to former Vice President Namadi Sambo. “Because of these deliberate lies and unfounded allegations, I have instructed my lawyers to file a ₦1 billion libel suit against Umar Sani,” Otedola said in a...
•WAEC national office, Lagos A Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Evans Ufeli, has dragged the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, and the Minister of Education before the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, seeking redress for what he described as the gross violation of the fundamental rights of Nigerian students during the c...
•Apple logo A trial opening today in which plaintiffs want more than one billion pounds is set to answer that question. The complaint, filed in May 2021, accuses Apple of breaching European and UK competition laws by “its exclusion of any other app stores from iOS devices” like iPhones and iPads, reports AFP. It claims […]
Disney has consented to pay $43 million to resolve a lawsuit alleging it compensated female workers less than their male counterparts in equivalent roles for nearly a decade. The agreement, finalised yesterday, originates from a 2019 lawsuit initiated by LaRonda Rasmussen. She claimed that she discovered six men with the same job title earned ...
•FCT minister, Nyesom Wike The Socio-Economic Rights Accountability Project has threatened a lawsuit against the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, if he does not withdraw the ultimatum he issued to beggars in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Wike during the flag-off ceremony for access road construction in the Katampe District of the Feder...
•VeryDarkMan Nigerian activist and social critic, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), has threatened lawsuit against the Lord’s Chosen Church, following a series of misleading testimonies shared by church members. VDM has urged the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to investigate these claims, accusing the church o...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Assembly Candidates Forum in Lagos State, today dissociated self from the lawsuit instituted against party and its leaders in the state by some members over alleged anti-party activities, describing it as mischievous and embarrassing in all its entirety.It would be recalled that Otunba Segun Adewale, the...
•Zamfara State House of Assembly The eight suspended members of the Zamfara State House of Assembly have instituted a suit at the Federal High Court in Gusau, challenging the breach of their constitutional rights to liberty, dignity of human person, fair hearing, and taking of property without following due process. The suit was against seven ...

