The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, has set aside the 2014 judgment of the Federal High Court in Lagos that authorised Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTBank) to take possession of a N30 billion, 44-room mansion in Ikoyi, Lagos, owned by Alhaji Agboola Abiola, son of the late Chief M.K.O. Abiola. In a unanimous judgment delivered on 18 June 2025, and …

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last September’s governorship election in Edo State, Dr.  Asue Ighodalo has rejected the Court of Appeal judgement, which, on Thursday, upheld the decision of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. The tribunal had validated the declaration of Senator Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the election by …

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Nyesom Wike has appointed the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem as Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) for the IBB International Golf and Country Club in Abuja. The minister inaugurated the board on Friday at his official residence in the Life Camp area of the nation’s …

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has restrained the enforcement of its judgment that upheld the Kano State Government’s repeal of the 2019 Emirate Council Law, pending the determination of a suit at the Supreme Court. It was reported that the Court of Appeal in Kano set aside the 20 June order by Justice Abubakar Liman of the Federal High …

An appeal court upheld an order on Wednesday blocking President Trump from ending birthright citizenship for children whose parents are in the United States illegally. The emergency request was filed by the Justice Department in an attempt to clear the path for Trump’s executive order, which had been blocked by judges in lower district courts since it was issued in …

The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan has upheld the selection and installation of Oba Ghandi Olaoye as the Soun of Ogbomoso, Oyo State, overturning an earlier ruling that nullified his appointment. Delivering judgement on Tuesday, Justice Yargata Nimpar, who led a three-member panel, ruled in favour of Oba Olaoye on all 10 grounds of appeal. On 25 October, 2023, …

The Court of Appeal sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital has upheld the death sentence of a popular hotel owner, Dr Ramon Adedoyin, who was found guilty in the murder case of an ex-Master’s student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke. According to the court’s judgment on Thursday, the appellate court noted that the judgment by the …

The leadership crisis within the Labour Party (LP) took a new turn on Saturday as the 29-member caretaker committee, established by Abia State Governor Alex Otti and the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate Peter Obi, warned Julius Abure to stop presenting himself as the party’s national chairman. In a statement in Abuja, the committee, led by Senator Nenadi Usman, declared …

The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Friday, overruled the verdict of the Federal High Court, Kano Division, over the appointment of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II. In the Kano State Government’s appeal on the chieftaincy issue, the appellate court overturned the lower court’s decision, which had questioned Sanusi’s appointment as the 16th Emir of Kano. In a …

A federal appeal court on Monday upheld a jury verdict ordering President-elect Donald Trump to pay $5 million for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. A New York jury found after a nine-day civil trial last year that the former president had sexually abused Carroll at a Manhattan department store in 1996. Trump was ordered to pay $2 …