The National Industrial Court sitting in Ibadan has ordered the police to pay N20 million to the family of a constable, Emmanuel Gene, who went missing two years ago. Gene was attached to the Ijebu-Igbo division of the Ogun State Police Command and was declared missing two years ago. He was reportedly kidnapped by hoodlums during an operation in Aba …

The Federal Government has arraigned 12 suspected oil thieves in connection with the intercepted Cameroon-bound vessel laden with 150 metric tonnes of stolen crude oil before the Federal High Court in Asaba. The vessel, MT TURA II, was intercepted on 7th July on Escravos Sea in Delta State with 11 Nigerians and one Ghanaian onboard. On 11th July, the military …

A federal high court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to grant leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu access to his medical records and doctors of his choice. In a judgement on Thursday, Justice Binta Nyako dismissed the objections raised by the DSS for lacking merit. In the suit, …

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, granted an application by the Federal Government to protect the identity of the witnesses lined up to testify against an alleged terrorist collaborator, Tukur Mamu. The Kaduna-based cleric and publisher is facing trial in connection with the terror attack on a Kaduna-Abuja train in March last year, leading to the death of …

Justice Liman of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered Ecobank Nigeria to pay N72.2 billion in damages to Honeywell Flour Mills Plc. In delivering judgement on Honeywell Flour Mills’s protracted suit against Ecobank Nigeria, the judge held that: “The plaintiff’s right to the damages sought had crystallised and the plaintiff had a right to maintain this action”, …

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, declined to extend its interim order, issued on 10th July stopping the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Inspector General of Police (IGP), and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) from prosecuting the suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Barrister Hudu Yunusa Ari, pending the hearing and determination of …

A Borno State High Court has sentenced a man, Danladi Mohammed to one-year imprisonment after convicting him of fraud. In a statement on Friday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said that Mohammed was jailed following his conviction on one count of criminal misappropriation of N7.6 million. He converted proceeds of 8,000 pieces of camping lanterns, which he claimed were …

A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, has granted some reliefs sought by Standard Alliance Investments Limited and its shareholders Standard Alliance Insurance Plc against the National Insurance Commission (NICOM) over the notice of cancellation of registration of Standard Alliance Plc. Other plaintiffs in the suit were Dickson Odoko and  Donatus Uba, who sued for themselves and on behalf of …

A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from prosecuting the suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Barrister Hudu Yunusa-Ari, over his declaration of Senator Aisha Dahiru (popularly called Binani) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as governor in the 18th March poll. Justice Donatus Okorowo made the order after counsel to …

The Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered the disclosure of the spending details of about US$5 billion funds from Nigeria’s late Head of State, General Sani Abacha (known as Abacha loot) recovered by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan, and Muhammadu Buhari. The Freedom of Information suit, from which the order emerged, was brought …