In 1954 Sir John Verity lost his job because he won an argument. It was in his ninth year in office as Chief Justice of colonial Nigeria. Sir John arrived in Nigeria in October 1945 from the ...

The NGO clarified that the MSC was basically asserting in London that they could not be sued in Nigerian court for infractions arising from shipping services rendered to Nigerians in Nigeria.

Two years before Sir John’s arrival in Nigeria, the Native Courts (Colony) Ordinance of 1943 had created a “Supreme Court of Justice” for the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. Taslim Elias ...

A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Citizens Whistleblowers Coalition (CWC) has raised the alarm over an injunctive order issued by a court in London stopping litigations in Nigeria against the ...

E. Abang, O. O. Oyewunmi, JJCA, delivered on 30 January 2025, doth hereby appeal to the Supreme Court of Nigeria upon the grounds set out in paragraph 3 below and will, at the hearing of the ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar ... Offences Act Cap M 17 of the Revised Edition (Law of the Federation of Nigeria) and punishable under Section 1 (2) (c) of the same Act.” ...

The Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, struck out the fraud charges against Gbolahan Obanikoro and four others. The development came after the Nigeria Police Force filed a notice of ...

Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has expressed worry over the persistent allegations of corruption, delays in justice dispensation, bias etc, bedeviling the Nigerian Judiciary. Justice Kekere-Ekun made ...

A furniture dealer dismembered his best friend and then baked his arm in the oven, a court heard. Richard Markham dumped Tristian Lovelock's severed head and other body parts across parkland near ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Police & Courts. Followed categories will be added to My News. 3.41pm: Seven people have been charged by police at the Party in the Paddock (PITP) music ...