Court Stories

Two professors born of same parents, Prof. Felicia Durojaiye Oyekanmi of the University of Lagos and her elder brother, Prof. Adebayo Durojaiye, are locked in a fierce battle over inheriting their late mother’s two houses in Lagos State. After failing to reach an amicable settlement within the family, one of the parties has proceeded to a Lagos High Court to ...

Press Statement: The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Court sitting in Ogba on Friday convicted six traffic offenders arrested by the convoy of the State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode in Ijora-Olopa area of the State on December 16, 2015, while driving against traffic. Those arrested and convicted include Mrs. Adejoke Elemoro, Mr. Ogunlana Olatunji, Mr. Ganiyu Ayokuleyin, Mr. Ogunade ...

A prosecution witness, Abu Sule, on Monday told a Federal High Court, Abuja, that he was used as a proxy by former Gov. Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State to acquire N270 million home in Abuja. Mr. Sule gave the evidence at the resumed trial of Mr. Ohakim on charges of money laundering and false assets declaration preferred against him by ...

An Ado-Ekiti High Court has restrained the Ekiti State government and its Housing Corporation from ejecting the embattled residents of Irewolede Estate, pending its ruling on December 9. Governor Ayo Fayose served a notice to eject those who fail to complete their mortgages  by November 30. The defaulters were to be ejected from yesterday. Those ejected on August 5 were ...

The founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Temitope Balogun Joshua, was absent in court on Monday at the start of the trial over the collapse of a refurbished six-storey building inside his church premises in 2014. The building collapse killed116 people, mostly South Africans. In July, Oyetade Komolafe, a coroner, indicted the church and the engineers in charge ...

Unable to establish any miscarriage of justice, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, has said it would not disturb the concurrent findings of the lower courts save in exceptional circumstances. With these words, Justices Ibrahim Muhammad, Muhammad Muntaka-Coomassie, Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, Nwali Ngwuta and Kumai Aka’ahs of the apex court brought to an end a land tussle between one Ibrahim Sakati, the ...

Federal High Court, Lagos, Wednesday fixed November 18 to decide on the case filed by embattled Senator Buruji Kashamu against the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA and the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF. Kashamu is praying for an order of perpetual injunction barring NDLEA and AGF from taking over his properties, including a 24-flat housing estate at Egbe and ...

Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has succeeded in moving the Court of Appeal, Lagos, to set aside a ruling of a Lagos High Court, which held that the corporation’s suit on the lingering crisis on the ownership of an imposing complex, popularly known as Fortune Towers, situated at No. 27/29 Adeyemo Alakija Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, was an abuse of ...

A pastor, Ike John Chidiebere and a property developer/lawyer, Obioma Success are at daggers drawn over a church property located in the highbrow Garki district in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. While the lawyer and owner of the disputed property (Success) is bent on converting the property to a hotel/night club, the pastor of Richfield of God Church insists that a 2012 ...

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday fixed Nov. 9 to rule on a suit by an engineer of the Synagogue Church, Akinbela Fatiregun, seeking enforcement of his rights. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the suit, which was earlier fixed for ruling on a preliminary objection, was adjourned following the absence of the trial judge, Ibrahim ...