Federal High court

December 12, (THEWILL) - A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has declared Hon. Edison Ogerenye Ehie, as the authentic Speaker of the Rivers state House of Assembly. The court also restrained Martin Amaewhule and Dumle Maol, from parading themselves...

December 07, (THEWILL) - The Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, to pay Murtala Ajaka, governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the sum of N500 million. The court also restrained security agencies from...

December 04, (THEWILL) - A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to identify, within 90 days, its officials involved in the registration of underage persons during the Continuous Voters’ Registration (CVR), exercise...

November 14, (THEWILL) - A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja, has revoked the bail earlier granted to Geoffrey Olusegun Akindele, one of the defendants in the trial of a former accountant-general of the federation,...

November 09, (THEWILL) - A Federal High Court, Abuja, has declined to grant a motion ex-parte brought by the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party (LP) to stop Athan Achonu as the governorship candidate of Saturday's election in...

November 9, (THEWILL) – Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has restrained a South African company, Novare, and its subsidiaries, from selling off their assets in Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Novare is the owner of...

November 6, (THEWILL) – The Federal High Court, Abuja, has awarded N5 million damages against the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), for alleging that the corps’ discharged certificate held by Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State was fake. Justice Inyang...

October 01, (THEWILL) - The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, will on Wednesday, October 4, swear in 23 newly appointed judges of the Federal High Court (FHC). A statement on Sunday, by the court’s Director of Information,...

September 26, (THEWILL) - The Federal High Court, Abuja, has restrained the Ondo State House of Assembly, from impeaching the Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, over alleged gross misconduct. Aiyedatiwa, in a motion on notice marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1294/2023, sued the Inspector-General...

August 10, (THEWILL) - The Federal High Court in Lagos has adjourned hearing in the applications filed by Godwin Emefiele and that filed by the Federal Government, to appeal a bail order earlier granted to the suspended Governor of...