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ON his recent foreign trips, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu reportedly secured several landmark deals, running to billions of US dollars. Many actors in the

But if my memory won't fail me, we also saw such “takeaways” in the eight years of President Muhammadu Buhari. 

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, will rule on the petitions filed against the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the February 25th, 2023 election. Naija

The Supreme Court will on Thursday, settle the legal dispute that has been trailing the presidential election that was held in the country on February 25. Though five petitions were initially entered against the declaration of President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of the presidential contest that involved

The National Industrial Court will begin its 2023 annual vacation on July 31. The announcement, which was made in a circular on Wednesday in Abuja was signed by the President of the court, Justice Benedict Kanyip. The vacation, Kanyip said, will end on Sept. 26. In addition, he stated that normal court sitting would resume

The High Courts of Lagos State will, on July 24, begin their annual vacation to end the 2022/2023 legal year of the state judiciary. A notice to that effect, signed by the Acting Chief Registrar, Mr Tajudeen Elias, and made available on Wednesday by Mrs Ololade Ige, Assistant Director, Public Affairs, Lagos State Judiciary, stated

Court awards N50million against EFCC for re-arresting defendant The judge, says there is no legal basis to rearrest a defendant who has been granted bail. The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday awarded N50million damages against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in favour of a defendant, Babatunde Morakinyo, who was unlawfully re-arrested by the commission’s operatives last year. The judge, Inyang Ekwo, ruled that the anti-graft agency abused its powers by re-arresting ...

Court orders CBN, Zenith Bank to refund stamp duty three-year deductions Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Federal High Court in Asaba, Delta State, has ordered the refund of the cumulative N50 stamp duty charges deducted from the account of a customer of Zenith Bank Plc and remitted to the Central Bank of Nigeria for over a period of three years. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba ruled that the continued stamp duty deductions from bank customers were a flagrant violation of the subsisting judgments of the Lagos Di...