Litigation

Female employee who underwent surgery sacked four days after resuming for work

A woman who underwent surgery after she was given approval by the company she was…

Court orders reinstatement of employee sacked for pursuing degree programme, participating in NYSC while still at work 

The National Industrial Court has ordered authorities of the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu State, to…

How N1.425bn belonging to Kogi govt was used for forex transactions in two months under Yahaya Bello —Witness

A prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, on…

“He has history of mental illness:” Court frees man who killed 55-year-old resident

A Kano State High Court on Wednesday, October 14, discharged and acquitted a 35-year-old man,…

Defamation, cyberbullying: Appeal Court strikes out Kwara govt suit against Saraki

The Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Tuesday, October 13, dismissed the…

Court blasts CDS, military for refusing to pay death benefits, other entitlements of female officer to husband

The National Industrial Court has come hard on the Chief of Defence Staff, the military…

Court orders varsity to immediately reinstate lecturer sacked for ‘misconduct’, pay his salaries from February

The National Industrial Court has ordered the immediate reinstatement of a lecturer at the Sa’adu…

Man leaves home to repair customer’s AC but ends up spending more than one year in prison custody

A technician who left his home in Lagos State to repair the air conditioner of…

Court orders Chinese company to pay worker N20 million within 30 days for injury sustained at work

The National Industrial Court has ordered a Chinese engineering company to pay one of its…

Govt can’t dismiss workers over property dispute, court rules, awards N5m damages for sacked employee

A court has declared as null and void, the dismissal of an employee of the…

Company refuses to pay ex-worker’s benefits 24 years after retirement, court orders it to pay N10m as ‘punitive damages’

Justice Nelson Ogbuanya of the National Industrial Court has awarded the sum of N12.67 million…

Atiku’s suit accusing Tinubu of forging NYSC certificate has no substance, dismiss it, APC, Tinubu tell Abuja court

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Bola Tinubu on Thursday, September 10, asked the…

PFIPC scandal: Adeyemi’s suit against police, AGF challenging his detention suffers setback

A fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by  Adeniyi Adeyemi, the Director-General of the controversial…

Chinese company ordered to pay N20 million as damages to worker who lost three fingers while operating machine

A Chinese company along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Dingshengyuan Plastic Processing and Manufacturing, has been ordered…

Taraba govt ordered to pay 18 employees N73m claims, N30m damages for disengaging them because they are non-indigenes

The Taraba State government has been ordered by the National Industrial Court to immediately pay…

Reprieve for employee sacked by electricity distribution company “for underperformance and not meeting targets”

Reprieve has come the way of an employee sacked by the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution…

‘His employment was never terminated’: Court orders LG chairman to pay driver 12-year salary, retirement entitlements

The National Industrial Court has ordered the Chairman of Ido Osi Local Government Area of…

Airline ordered to pay pilot N14 million as outstanding salaries, damages for terminating his employment

The National Industrial Court has ordered an airline, Azman Air, to pay a pilot the…