•Omoyele Sowore The method adopted by the Department of State Services (DSS) in making public the suspension of the cyberbullying charges against the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, was faulted yesterday. Mr Olumide Fusika, SAN, the lead counsel to Sowore, knocked the procedure while addressing a press con...
•Tinubu, FBI operatives and US court President Bola Tinubu has filed a challenge in a US court to prevent the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and DEA from releasing records linked to allegations of drug trafficking. The records are being sought by American transparency activist Aaron Greenspan, who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [&h...
•Jonathan Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has rebuked Johnmary Jideobi, the plaintiff, and his lawyer, Ndubuisi Ukpai, over lack of diligence in pursuing the suit filed, seeking to stop former President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the 2027 presidential election. Justice Lifu, who described the plaintiff’s and his law...
•Mahamat Idriss Deby of Chad Eight Chadian opposition leaders arrested at the end of last month were jailed for eight years today, their lawyer told our correspondent, the latest detentions of President Mahamat Idriss Deby’s critics. The defendants, all members of the only political movement to have systematically challenged Deby’s election, h...
A lawyer, Dr Sheriff Adesanya, has sued Air Peace Limited at Federal High Court in Lagos over a “seat-only” business-class upgrade policy allegedly operated by the airline. The suit, FHC/L/CS/364/2026 and pending before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke, raises questions about airline transparency, passenger rights, and consumer protection in aviation...
•Nigerian lawyers The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has criticised Justice Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja for ordering a lawyer, Marshall Abubakar, to kneel in court. Abubakar, the lead defence lawyer to human rights activist Omoyele Sowore, drew the ire of the judge when he raised his voice while making submissions in [&hel...
•Nasir El-Rufai and ICPC operative Lawyer to former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has accused the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) of spreading unverified allegations linking their client to multi-billion-naira properties in Egypt, describing the claims as part of a politically motivated campa...
•Nyesom Wike An Abuja based lawyer, Mr Balla Dakum, has threatened to file a contempt charge against the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Nyesom Wike, for allegedly unlawfully demolishing property located at Maitama District in Abuja. Dakum, who spoke to judiciary reporters at a press briefing on behalf of his client, Alh...
•Former Governor Yahaya Bello and EFCC logo Joseph Daudu (SAN), the counsel to the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has said that his client’s trial in the alleged N80.2 billion local government funds transfers was political, and not money laundering charges. Daudu stated this at the ongoing alleged money laundering case in...
•River Park Estate, Abuja An FCT High Court in Gwarinpa has struck out the criminal charges brought against Ghanaian investors and owners of JonahCapital Ltd led by Sam Jonah and four others over the River Park Estate dispute. Justice Modupe-Osho Adebiyi, today, struck out the matter after the office of the Attorney General of the […]
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