•Akpabio and Natasha Senate President Godswill Akpabio has petitioned the Federal High Court in Abuja to compel suspended Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to delete a satirical apology she posted on her social media pages. On April 27, Akpoti-Uduaghan shared a short video in which she mockingly apologised to Akpabio, claiming it wa...
A 38-year-old American woman has filed a lawsuit against a fertility clinic after the wrong embryo was implanted in her, causing her to give birth to a child that was not biologically hers. She later had to surrender the baby to its rightful parents. Krystena Murray, from Savannah, Georgia, turned to in vitro fertilisation to […]
•Philip Agbese and Tigran Gambaryan A member of the House of Representatives, Philip Agbese, has filed a N1 billion defamation lawsuit against Tigran Gambaryan, an executive at Binance, over allegations that he and two other lawmakers demanded a $150 million bribe. The suit, filed at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja yest...
•Senator Andy Uba The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, the nod to arraign a former lawmaker for Anambra South Senatorial District, Senator Andy Uba, on a two-count charge bordering on alleged N400million fraud. The court, presided over by Justice Inyang Ekwo, fixed February ...
Alimosho Local Government Council, Lagos State, has sued the state House of Assembly before a Federal High Court, Abuja, alleging undue and illegal interference in its activities. In a copy of the summons obtained by our correspondent in Abuja, the Council asks the court to hold that the Assembly and the Speaker have no constitutional [&hellip...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Nigeria’s governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr Nyesom Wike “over their failure to account for N5.9 trillion and $4.6 billion loans obtained by their states and the FCT, and to publish copies of the loan agreements, including d...
•Late Herbert Wigwe, wife and Abimbola Ogunbanjo The family of the late former Chairman of the Nigerian Exchange Group, Abimbola Ogunbanjo, who was killed in a Southern California helicopter crash in February filed a lawsuit yesterday, against the US helicopter company. The former Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings, Dr Herbert Wigwe, h...
•Godswill Akpabio Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a suit against Senate President Godswill Akpabio over “the failure to refer the alleged N3.7 trillion budget padding to appropriate anti-corruption agencies for investigation and prosecution, and to recall Senator Abdul Ningi who blew the whistle on the allega...
•Gani Adams and Igboho Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, today, instituted a case of alleged defamation of character against the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams. Adams had recently, in a leaked audio conversation, alleged that Igboho is an assassin allegedly being used by President Bola Tinubu fo...
•Femi Falana A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, and an early childhood education specialist, for themselves and on behalf of the Alliance on Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond, Hauwa Mustapha, have sued the federal government (through the Attorney General of the Federation), the Minister of education, the Universal Basic Education Commissio...

