This article examines the landmark decision of the Nigerian Court of Appeal in La Casera Company PLC v Mr. Prahlad Kottappurath Gangadharam (2025), which represents a significant development in the jurisprudence on restraint of trade clauses in employment contracts. The Court’s nuanced approach in partially upholding a five-year non-compete clause while declaring a perpetual restraint […]
• ‘He ignored opposition parties, left behind weaker commission’• HURIWA warns Tinubu against politicising INEC appointment A federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, yesterday, issued a fresh order to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, to arrest the immediate past chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, […]
The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, has overturned the suspension of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) by the Oyo State Government, declaring the action unlawful and without justification. In a unanimous judgment delivered by a three-man panel comprising Justices Biobele Georgewill, (Dr.) Kenneth Ikechukwu Amadi, and Fadawu Umaru, the […]
Justice Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has struck out a suit filed by businessman Abubakar Ismaila Isa Funtua, alleging that his 43 million shares were transferred without his consent to Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services Limited (EMTS), operators of 9mobile. Delivering judgment on the matter marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1971/2024, Justice Umar held that Funtua, the […]