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The Federal High Court, Abuja, has disqualified the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, from contesting the November 11 Guber election in Bayelsa state. The suit number…

Senator Iyorchia Ayu has been suspended from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and removed as the party chairman by a High Court sitting in Markurdi, Benue state. It was reported that Ayu did not against that he did not pay his…

The acting National Chairman of the Labour Party, Lamidi Apapa, has recently vowed to show up at the ongoing Presidential Election Petition Tribunal again on Friday. Apapa disclosed this to the media in an interview held at his hotel…

A first class traditional ruler in Ondo State, the Oluoke of Oke-Igbo in the Ile-Oluji/Oke-Igbo Local Government Area of the State, Oba Babajide Lawrence Oluwole, has been deposed. A State High Court sitting in Ondo city…

Civil Society Organisations on Friday decried what they described as the incessant disobedience of court orders by the Abdulrasheed Bawa-led Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the seeming politicisation of the agency’s activities.…

Nigeria’s former deputy senate president and his wife appeared in a London court on Tuesday ahead of their trial for organ harvesting, but his accused daughter was unable to attend as she is in hospital. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, appeared at…

The Election Petition Tribunal has upheld the election of Gov. Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State and his Deputy, Mrs Monisade Afuye. The Tribunal in its judgment on Thursday in Ado -Ekiti dismissed the petition of the Social Democratic…

A Federal Capital Territory High Court has ordered the interim forfeiture of monies and properties recovered from a former Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The items…

A Federal High Court sitting in Minna, the Niger State Capital, has ordered that the Chief of Army Staff, General Farouk Yahaya, be arrested for contempt. Justice Halima Abdulmalik, who issued the warrant and presided over the case, said…

TFederal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba to three months in prison for disobeying a valid court order. The court, in a ruling that was delivered by Justice M. O.…