Villagers of Tudun Biri in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State have sued the Federal Government and demanded ₦33 billion compensation over the recent army’s airstrikes that killed over 100 persons at the village. The incident happened penultimate Sunday night during a
BY PAUL J. WEBER, AP AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge on Thursday gave a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis permission to get an abortion in an unprecedented challenge over bans that more than a dozen states have enacted since Roe
The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, ordered the government of the Republic of Benin to pay Yoruba nation activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, a sum of
The controversy surrounding Hope Uzodimma’s emergence as Imo State Governor in the last dispensation and suits to remove him has come to end as the supreme court has dismissed an application by Emeka Ihedioha, former governor of Imo, seeking the removal of Hope
An Appeal Court sitting in Lagos State in a unanimous decision on Saturday, upheld the victory of Abia State Governor, Alex Otti at the polls, stressing that it conformed with the provisions of the Electoral Act. The court of dismissed the appeals brought
Piqued by the Governors’ adamant posture to conduct local government elections, the Nigerian Senate has urged the Federal Government to withhold statutory allocations to local government councils that are not democratically elected. The Red Chamber unanimously resolved that this move would deter the
The Nigerian Judiciary is once again being put forward for all the wrong reasons as Protesters have defied Security agencies threats, returned to the streets of Kano over the sack of Governor Abba Yusuf by the Appeal Court. Protesters were heard chanting in Hausa, “We will not accept it”;
The Tincan Island Port (TCIP) command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has handed over 54,330 dollars tramadol bribe money to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Customs Area Controller of Tin Can Island Port command, Comptroller Dera Nnadi, disclosed this
Nigerian-American superstar singer, David Adedeji Adeleke (Davido), has filed a preliminary objection to challenge the N2.3 billion breach of contract suit instituted against him and his music label, Davido Music Worldwide Limited, by Brownhill Investments Company Limited and its Chairman, Mr. Amaju Pinnick.
Barely one week after the Court of Appeal sacked the speaker of the Bauchi House of Assembly Speaker, Abubakar Sulaiman, the appellate court sitting in Abuja, has also sacked the deputy speaker, Dahiru Barade. The sacked speaker and his deputy are members of