Tag Archives: Rivers State High Court

A landmark judgement has been delivered by a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, awarding a whopping N1.1bn against the Rivers State government. The government was found guilty of unlawfully demolishing and taking over landed property belonging to residents of waterfront communities in the Port Harcourt City Local …

THE Rivers State High Court has invalidated the controversial amendment to the Local Government Law proposed by the Martins Amaewhule faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly.  Newsextra24 reports that the court’s decision was rendered in the case numbered PHC/1320/CS/2024, which challenged the legal validity of extending the tenure of local …