The Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, has dismissed a case filed by Khalifa Abiola and two others against the Federal Government of Nigeria over alleged human...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court on Friday dismissed a suit filed by an Ivorian citizen, Zadi Philipe, seeking damages for losses suffered...
The ECOWAS Court on Thursday ordered the Federal Government to pay N5 million in compensation to one Oluwatimilehin Adebayo for violation of his rights. The court...
The Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS) Court on Friday ordered the Sierra Leonean government to pay a compensation of $15,000 in damages each to...
The Court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, threw out the suit by the Niger Republic junta against...
For unlawfully detaining him and violating his fundamental human rights, the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), sitting in...
The Federal Government has been ordered to pay the family of the Women’s Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State, Mrs Salome Acheju...
The ECOWAS Court, on Thursday, “found unlawful the suspension of Twitter by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, and ordered the administration never to repeat it,”...
Embattled Yoruba Nation activist and freedom fighter, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, has dragged the government of Benin Republic to the Community Court...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has warned the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to take meaningful steps to implement several judgments it obtained against the...
The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja has issued a ruling on Friday mandating the Federal Government to pay Nigerian journalist Agba Jalingo N30 million. The...
The ECOWAS Court has announced July 9 as the date for the hearing of the coalition of applications against the Twitter Ban instituted by the Federal...
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to respect the ruling of the ECOWAS Court banning the prosecution of Nigerians...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja to challenge the Federal Government’s...
The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the Federal Government to pay over N53 million to a German, Mr. Martin Gegenheimer, for unlawful arrest and detention....
The ECOWAS Court of Justice, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the Nigerian government to repeal or amend the provision of its cybercrimes law which violates citizens’ right...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the government of Nigeria and Cross River state government of governor Ben Ayade to ECOWAS Court of Justice...
By Jude Ndukwe… “We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while...
By Reuben Abati… It is more than tw o weeks now since His Lordship Justice Ijeoma L. Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, gave clear,...
For not giving her access to justice, the Economic Community of West African States Court of Justice has ordered the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay...
The missing leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has maintained that despite being granted bail by the Federal High Court in...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has resolved to take the case of its leader Mr Nnamdi Kanu, to the Economic Community of West African States...
President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has been ordered by Court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to release former National Security Adviser, Sambo...
The case of former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki, challenging his unlawfully detention by the Federal Government before the Community Court of Justice of...
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has approached the ECOWAS Court of Justice to enforce his...
The Federal Government has said it would be dangerous to release the embattled former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, saying he constitutes a security risk....
The Community Court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) yesterday said it has the jurisdiction to hear a suit filed by former National...