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*The couple when things were rosy  (Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Monday had a suit filed by    Lateef Adegboyega Lawal , against his estranged wife, Sariyu Olalude and the men of the Nigerian Police Force. Adegboyega is the new husband to a Nigeria actress, Elizabeth Anjorin, popularly called Lizzy Anjorin. Meanwhile, the court has adjourned till September 7, 2022, for hearing in the suit. He had dragged his estranged wife, Folashade before the court in a fundamental rights enforcement suit marked FHC/L/CS/1488/22, alongside Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos, it's Officer-in-Charge of the Monitoring Unit, and one Mrs. Tina, an Investigation Police with the Zone 2. Adegboyega in the suit filed by his lawyer, M. B. Bello, asked the court for "a declaration that the continuous harassment, humiliation, spreading of falsehood, and abuse on social media against him and his family by his estranged wife first, is vindictive, unwarr

(Nigeria) The Delta State A ll Progressives Congress, A PC , G ubernatorial Campaign Organisation has said the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Sheriff Oborevwori, wa s the weakest link in the 2023 governorship election in the state, and welcomed his Monday afternoon “victory” at the Court of Appeal. Specifically, the court had set aside the judgment of a Federal High Court which on July 7, 2022, nullified his nomination on grounds of certificate forgery and perjury preferred against him by his main opponent in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, David Edevbie. Welcoming Oborevwori’s victory,   Director, Communications and Media Strategy of the Campaign Organisation, Ima Niboro, described it as good news for APC. The former Presidential Spokesman described Oborevwori as a weak and compromised candidate who will find it impossible to explain why Deltans should give him and his fellow travellers another opportunity to mortgage the future of the state with more humongous

* National Industrial Court ,  NIC, Lagos (Nigeria) A National Industrial Court , NIC, sitting in Lagos on Monday,  reserved for judgement, the suit by the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions , ASSBIFI, and nine others against Trade Union Congress, TUC over its 12th triennial delegates’ conference. Trial judge, Justice Rabi Gwandu adjourned for judgement following the adoption of written addresses in the main originating summon and the counter responses which was adopted by all parties. The judge at the last sitting frowned at the flagrant disobedience of her order, which restrained TUC from holding its 12th triennial delegates’ conference pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit before the court. At the resume of the matter on Monday , Claimants' counsel, Timothy Adewale moved   a pending motion filed against the defendants over disobedience of the order made by the court while he also asked the court to commit th

*Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN (Nigeria) By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN The events unfolding at the National Executive Council of the Nigerian Bar Association, in relation to the suspension or purported suspension of the General Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association is unbecoming and deserving of condemnation by all lovers of the legal profession. Some members of the National Executive Council of the NBA claimed to have suspended the General Secretary for whatever reason. Mrs. Joyce Oduah in response proceeded to the Court to challenge the said suspension and all the parties in the said suit have been duly notified, especially of her pending application for an order of injunction, whilst some of the defendants in the said suit have challenged the jurisdiction of the court.   This case has thrown open the underbelly of legal practice in Nigeria, as this is what plays in virtually all courts between parties in most cases where judicial intervention is sought for one cause or the other. I

(Nigeria) A  Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki , Ebonyi State,  has convicted and sentenced a job scammer, Emeka Anaga, to a total of 404 years imprisonment, for conspiracy and fraud. Justice Akintayo Aluko on Wednesday gave the verdict through zoom, while delivering judgment in a separate charge filed against the convict by the Abakaliki Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC. The convict was arraigned in Abakiliki, Ebonyi State division of the Federal High Court, in 2018 and 2019, where Justice Aluko was formerly sitting, on 39 and 6 counts charges marked FHC/AI/8c/2019 and FHC/AI/62c/2018, on a 39 and six count charges respectively. In the charges, the convict and one Barrister Ken, said to be at large, were accused of introducing themselves to their victim, as a staff of Etisalat telecommunications Limited now 9Mobile, and that he was capable of securing them contract to supply fuel to   in all telecommunication companies. To be precise, h

*Dr. Muiz Banire, SAN (Nigeria) Muiz Banire SAN This prompted another action in Abuja filed by Vigeo Power Limited before the Honourable Justice Emeka Nwite in which the court granted orders restraining the defendants in the suit from taking over the management of the BEDC. The court order, a copy of which I am privileged to see, also directs the directors appointed by PBE from parading themselves as directors of the company pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice. The above orders have been observed more in the breach than observance as the Federal Government has deployed force through the police to take over BEDC and eject the board representatives of Vigeo Power Limited, the 60% shareholder of the company. The government has been carrying on as if the court order was a mere piece of toilet paper. When the police realized that there were court orders and the Inspector-General of Police chose to toe the path of rule of law, the defendants in the suit, who obvio

* Prof.  Epiphany Azinge , SAN (Nigeria) Former Director General of Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Prof. Epiphany Azinge , SAN, has been appointed President of President of Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal , CSAT . Commonwealth Secreta ry General, Patricia Scotland , QC , in a letter dated August 23, 2022, coveying the appointment to Prof. Azinge , said: “ Pursuant to your nomination to, and selection by, the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth Secretariat, and in accordance with the Statute of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal , CSAT, I write with pleasure to invite you to accept appointment as President of CSAT. “ If you are able to accept the terms set out below, your appointment as President will run concurrently with your second and final four-year term as a member of the Tribunal, taking immediate effect and expiring on May 31, 2023. “ As President of CSAT you are entrusted with the timely discharge of the functions and responsibiliti

*Federal High Court, Lagos (Nigeria) Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, have asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, to stop  President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, from “the arbitrary use of the NBC Act and broadcasting code to threaten, revoke and shut down 53 broadcast stations in the country for allegedly failing to renew their licenses.” Joined in the suit as Defendant is Mr Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture. The NBC had last week revoked the licenses of the 53 broadcast stations and threatened to shut down their operations within 24 hours over alleged N2.6 billion debt.  The NBC has now asked the stations “to pay all outstanding license fees on or before August 23, 2022, or shut down by 12am on August 24.” In the suit number FHC/L/CS/1582/2022 filed today at the Federal High Court, Lagos, SERAP and NGE are asking the court to determine “whether section 10(a) of

*Federal High Court, Lagos  (Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Thursday has ordered the remand of one Philip Elue, an alleged importer of 1 X 40ft container, laden with 86 packs of Cannabis Sativa, popularly called Indian Hemp. Justice Akintayo Aluko ordered Philip's remand in the custody of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Tin Can Island Port, Apapa, Lagos State, till August 31, 2022, when investigation would have been concluded on the alleged crime. Justice Aluko made the remand order, after listening to the submission made by Mrs. Kehinde Bode-Ayeni. In urging the court for the order, Mrs. Bode-Ayeni told the court that the application was pursuant to Section 294 and 295 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015; Section 8 and 181 Of the Customs and Excise Management Act, Cap. C46 L.F.N. 2004; Sections 6 (6), 35 (1)(c), (5) and (7)(a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and Order 46 Rule 4(d) of the Federal H

*Muiz Banire, SAN (Nigeria) By Dr. Muiz Banire, SAN  That there is a correlation between disobedience to court order and anarchy seems to be a fact yet to be appreciated by most Nigerians. This probably informs the choice of topic by the recent NBA-SPIDEL organizing committee when it couched the conversation as “Disobedience to court orders and the slide to state of anarchy”.  This presupposes the probability of a slide to anarchy should court orders be continuously disobeyed. I was privileged to be the lead speaker and I had to recalibrate the title of my presentation as above. This is simply based on my conviction that it is not when a country is in a state of war that there is anarchy.  The Yoruba’s will say, ‘Ogede nbaje, eni o n pon’ (a banana piece is getting rotten you claim its getting ripe). Why are we camouflaging the reality in a different garb, just to satisfy the demand of courtesy? Aptly captured in the Yoruba proverb, ‘Nitori kini a se pon jebe ni akisa?’ I think we ar

*Federal High Court, Lagos (Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has authorised an aspirant, Mr. Olasunkanmi Shittu, to serve via substituted means, a suit seeking to disqualify the lawmaker representing Surulere Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mrs. Mosunmola Sangodara. Trial judge, Justice Nicolas Oweibo made the order following Shittu’s application filed and argued by his counsel Dr. Kemi Pinheiro, who led Adebowale Kamoru. Shittu, the plaintiff in Suit FHC/L/CS/1468/2022, is praying the court to disqualify Sangodara and declare him as the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate for next year’s election. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Sangodara and the APC are the 1st to 3rd defendants in the suit. At the resumption of proceedings on August 5, Kamoru informed the court of the plaintiff’s motion ex parte of August 4, for substituted service. He prayed for “An order granting leave to the Plaintiff to effect service of the writ of

(Nigeria) Justice Akintoye Aluko of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has adjourned ruling on the bail application of two suspected fraudsters and a company, who were alleged to have duped unsuspecting publics of billions of naira through a fake Ponzi scheme. The two defendants, Adewale Jayeoba and Emmanuel Jayeobam who are son and father  with their company,  Wales Kingdom Capital Limited were arraigned last week before Justice Nicholas Oweibo on a two count charge of operating a banking business without a valid banking license . Consequent upon their arraignment, Justice Oweibo defers hearing of their bail application till today. At the resumption of trial,  counsel to the defendants, Mr Olaniyi George told Justice Aluko, who has now assumed jurisdiction over the matter as a vacation judge that he has a bail application and pleaded with the court to be allowed to move same. However, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, the prosecution counsel from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commi

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, on Tuesday, restrained the Inspector-General of Police and all police officers in Nigeria, including the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2 Command, Lagos, the Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State, the Rapid Response Squad, Ekiti State from inviting or arresting Directors and members of Staff of JNC International Limited over a civil contract for the supply and installation of medical equipment. The order followed an ex-parte application filed and argued on behalf of the company and its directors by eminent lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegbooruwa, SAN. Specifically, Justice T. Ringim directed all the parties to maintain the status quo ante bellum before the filing of the case in court pending the hearing and final determination of the Motion on Notice. Sued as respondents in the suit are the Inspector-General of Police, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, the Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State, the