Category: Judiciary

By Advocatenewsng.com A Lagos High Court, sitting before Justice Olumuyiwa Martins, has ordered Sterling Bank Nigeria PLC to pay Comfort Stevens Limited the sum of N75million as damages and cost over breach of their non-disclosure and non-circumvention agreement.  Comfort Stevens Limited, an international footwear and shoe component manufacturing company with operations in United States, Brazil, China and Nigeria had through its President/CEO Dr. John Ugochukwu Nwankwo filed a N20Billion lawsuit against Sterling Bank for a breach of contract.  …

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By Advocatenewsng.com The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Thursday, July 11, 2024 ended over two decades of strangulation of the 774 local government areas of the country by the state governors who wittingly hijack their allocations from the federation account and leave them paralysed from performing their constitutional duties of providing and maintaining basic amenities like rural roads, health centres, primary schools and other sundry projects and services due to the rural communities, thereby making life very unbearable for…

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Justice Eberechi Wike (left) and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola. By Advocatenewsng.com JUSTICE Eberechi Suzette Wike, wife of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and immediate past governor of oil rich Rivers State, Nyesom Wike and 21 others have incidentally made the final list of new senior judges to be appointed to the Court of Appeal. The President of the Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice M.B Dongban-Mensem had requested the appointment of 22 new Justices…

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Barr Owolabi, one of the suspects.  By Advocatenewsng.com A property complainant, Dr. Obidigwe Eze, a medical doctor, in the criminal charge LD/CR/26/2024, filed against two lawyers and a businessman at the Lagos High Court, TBS, by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), has urged the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice (AG), Lawal Pedro (SAN) to resist the temptation to discontinue the prosecution as requested by one of the suspects.   The defendants in the charge are Adebayo Akeju of Adon…

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The convicted cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Adepoju. By Advocatenewsng.com THE Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has convicted a medical doctor and founder of MedContour Services Ltd., Dr Anuoluwapo Adepoju, who conducted a failed plastic surgery that resulted in the death of one Nneka Onwuzuligbo in 2020, FIJ reports. This was disclosed by a former Director-General of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, Babatunde Irukera on Friday. In his tweet, Irukera, tweeting as #TundeIrukera, wrote, “Today is a…

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Former Aviation Minister, Mr. Sirika. By Advocatenewsng.com THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is set to arraign former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, his daughter, Fatimah, and two other suspects in court on Thursday. The suspects are facing charges over alleged N2.7 billion contract fraud uncovered in the Aviation Ministry under Sirika. The embattled former Minister would be arraigned for trial for the first time before Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday….

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By Advocatenewsng.com UPON incessant intimidation and harassment suffered in the hands of men from the Nigeria Police, allegedly instigated by his estranged wife, Mrs Endurance Modupe Makolo, a Lagos-based businessman, Paul Makolo, has filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit before the Ikeja Division of the Lagos State High Court to stop the unwarranted rights abuse. The applicant Paul Makolo brought the application for an order for the enforcement of his fundamental right under Sections 35 and 46 of the…

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Cubana Chief Priest. By Advocatenewsng.com WITH the endorsement of a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos on Thursday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been permitted, if it wishes, to enter into out of court settlement with Pascal Okechukwu, popularly known as Cubana Chief Priest, in the charge of alleged naira abuse brought against him by the anti-graft agency. The Chief Priest was arraigned on April 17, 2024 on a three-count charge of allegedly spraying and tampering with…

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