•Edo State House of Assembly The Edo State House of Assembly has taken legal action against the 18 suspended local government chairmen, seeking judicial interpretation of Section 20 of the Edo Local Government Law, 2000 (as amended). The suit aims to determine whether the 24 lawmakers had the authority to suspend the elected chairmen and [&hel...
•US President Donald Trump (seated) Democratic-led states and civil rights groups filed several lawsuits challenging U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to roll back birthright citizenship on Tuesday in an early bid by his opponents to block his agenda in court. After his inauguration on Monday, Trump, a Republican, ordered U.S. agencies to refu...
Disengaged staff members of the Central Bank of Nigeria, who were laid off in a mass redundancy last year, have taken the apex bank to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria in Abuja. The aggrieved former staff members, in an originating summons filed on July 4, 2024, under the NICN Civil Procedure Rules 2017, raised […]
Thirteen former staff members of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) have filed a lawsuit in the National Industrial Court, Abuja, seeking to overturn what they claim is a wrongful dismissal by the commission’s management. A termination notice dated February 27, 2024, and signed by Ephraim Ekpe, Assistant Director of Administratio...
•Works minister, David Umahi and Lagos-Calabar highway The federal government has insisted that it would continue construction of the 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway despite ongoing court cases filed by aggrieved persons against the project. The Minister of Works, David Umahi, stated this at a press briefing yesterday in Abuja while addres...
•Tolanibaj, late Mohbad and wife Wunmi Big Brother Naija reality star and disc jockey, Tolanibaj has pitched an idea to Mohbad’s widow, Wunmi following the incessant demand for a DNA test. While discussing the paternity case involving the singer’s son on her podcast Bahd and Boujee, co-hosted by Moet Abebe, she stated that if the […]...
•Betta Edu The suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, has threatened to file a lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for defaming her personality. Edu disclosed this in a letter sent to BBC Abuja and London offices by her counsel, Chikaosolu Ojukwu (SAN). According to the letter, ...
No fewer than 183 former Niger Delta agitators (militants) have dragged the federal government before a Federal High Court, Abuja over alleged stoppage of their monthly allowance. The 183 ex-militants, in 17 separate suits filed by their counsel, Regina Okotie-Eboh, before Justice James Omotosho, also joined the coordinator of the Presidential...
•Gov Sanwo-Olu and Prof Kila A Professor of Strategy and Development and Director at the Commonwealth Institute of Advanced and Professional Studies Prof Anthony Kila has urged Lagosians to go to court to get an injunction and to sue the Lagos State Government over the ban on Styrofoam and single-use plastics. The renowned political economist ...
The owners of the vessel, Soljass Maritime Limited have dragged the Nigerian Navy, Chief of Naval Staff, and the Commander of the Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder to court for what they referred to as recklessness and bad faith shown by the maritime force. On August 22, members of Operation Delta Safe destroyed the vessel MV […]
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