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 …

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Wednesday, awarded a cost of N6 million against the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in favour of a businessman, Igwe Dennis Nwaokpara. Nwaokpara was unlawfully arrested, deported from Kenya and detained in Nigeria. The court also restrained the NIS, whether by itself or its officials from further deporting, arresting, detaining or in any …

A chief magistrate’s court on Tuesday ordered that a former Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Idris Wada-Saleh, be remanded in Kano State Public Complaints and Anti Corruption Commission(PCACC) Custody over alleged N1 billion fraud. The defendant, a commissioner to former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, is charged with giving false information and cheating. Chief Magistrate Tijjani Sale-Minjibir ordered the defendant’s remand in …

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, nullified the expulsion of former Governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over alleged anti-party activities. Justice James Omotosho held that Nnamani was not given a fair hearing in accordance with the PDP’s constitution. He said that going by the Article 57 of the Constitution of the …

A Magistrate Court sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Friday remanded nine close associates of immediate past state Chairman of Parks Management System, Mukaila Lamidi (popularly known as Auxillary), in prison for alleged conspiracy, armed robbery, attempted murder and unlawful possession of firearms. The police had declared Auxillary wanted following the invasion of his hideout, where 78 hoodlums …