The Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS -Related Abuses has issued a summon on Adamu Muhammed, inspector-general of police over the alleged land seizure. The petitioner, Adewale Adewuyi, represented by his legal counsel, Debo Adeleke, accused the police of hostile acquisition and destruction of his 25 acres of farmland at Age-Mowo near Badagry on December 17, 2013. The judicial panel led by Doris Okuwobi, issued the summon to the IGP...

Abuja, Feb. 22, 2021(NAN) The  Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday, ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to pay N10.6 million to veteran journalist, Geoffrey Anika, as damages against unlawfully blocking the highway. The blockage was said to have caused a ghastly motor accident involving Anika in 2012. Anika, is currently a traditional ruler in Atta Kingdom in Ikeduru Council Area of Imo. The amount was awarded in favour of  Anika, whose vehicle, a...

ABUJA —  A 35-year-old bus conductor, Chinedu Nnamani, accused of aiding the transportation of 18.5 kilogrammes of Cannabis Sativa (a.k.a Indian Hemp) was on Monday, discharged and acquitted at the Federal High Court, Abuja. Justice Babatunde Quadri absolved Nnamani of the one-count charge on the grounds that the prosecution failed to substantiate the charge leveled against him. The judge said the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) as the prosecuting agency, ought to have placed...

Seeks an order of the Federal High Court to declare the placing of the Nigerian Copyright Commission under the Ministry of Justice as a violation of the Nigerian Copyright Act, 2010. A lawyer, Tosin Ojaomo, has sued President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, for alleged copyright law violations. Other defendants in the case include the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed; and the Speaker of the House...