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Court Orders Police To Stay Actions On Petroleum Tankers’ Leadership Crisis

Court Orders Police To Stay Actions On Petroleum Tankers’ Leadership Crisis

Justice Akintayo Aluko of a Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the police to stay all action and maintain the status quo in the matter brought by members of the Ejigbo branch of the…

Man bags death sentence for setting mum ablaze

A Minna High Court 1 presided over by the Chief Judge of Niger State, Justice Halima Ibrahim Abdulmalik, has sentenced a middleaged man, Stephen Jiya, to death by hanging for killing his mother, Mrs. Comfort…

Cases that’ll shape 2024

Cases that’ll shape 2024

Among the cases that will shape year 2024 is the judgement that will be delivered by the Supreme Court on the Kano State Governorship legal tussle. The apex court had at the last adjourned date…

Ondo Judiciary gets new Chief Registrar

Ondo Judiciary gets new Chief Registrar

The Ondo State Judicial Commission has approved the appointment of Mrs. Yetunde Ajanaku-Makun as the Chief Registrar of the state judiciary following the retirement of the former occupier of the office, Victoria Bob-Manuel. The Chief…

Court Issues Interim Order On Kano LG Funds

Court Issues Interim Order On Kano LG Funds

Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has issued an interim order, restraining the Kano State Government from further managing, controlling, administering, and disbursing the funds and allocations belonging to the 44 Local Government Areas of…

Angolan Billionaire Loses Bid To Prevent Assets From Being Frozen

Angolan Billionaire Loses Bid To Prevent Assets From Being Frozen

Angolan billionaire and daughter of the former president, Isabel dos Santos has lost a London court battle to stop the freezing of £580 million ($734 million) in her assets, arguing that the claims were motivated…

Court Halts Installation Of Radio Base Stations By MTN, American Tower

Court Halts Installation Of Radio Base Stations By MTN, American Tower

Justice Yellim Bogoro of a Federal High Court in Lagos has reaffirmed an order restraining telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria Communications Plc and its associate, ATC Nigeria Wireless Infrastructure Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of the…

Ex-Rwandan Doctor Sentenced To 24 Years In Prison For Genocide

Ex-Rwandan Doctor Sentenced To 24 Years In Prison For Genocide

A French court had sentenced Sosthene Munyemana, 68, a former doctor from Rwanda, to 24 years in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide. On Wednesday, December 19, he was found guilty of genocide,…

Uganda’s Anti-LGBTQI+ Law Challenged In Constitutional Court

Uganda’s Anti-LGBTQI+ Law Challenged In Constitutional Court

On Monday, December 18, 2023, Uganda’s Constitutional Court on Monday challenge an anti-LGBT statute that punishes certain same-sex behaviours with the death penalty and a 20-year jail term for “promoting” homosexuality. Following a meeting, the…

Tesla Moves To Halt U.S Agency Lawsuit Against Black Race Bias

Tesla Moves To Halt U.S Agency Lawsuit Against Black Race Bias

Tesla Inc has asked a United States (US) Judge to pause a federal agency’s lawsuit accusing the electric carmaker of severe harassment of Black workers at its California assembly plant, saying two similar cases should…