The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (the ECOWAS Court) presided over by Justice Wilkins Wright has ordered the Federal Government to pay one Sunday Mary the sum of N50m. The verdict was given in a case of domestic violence filed on behalf of Ms. Sunday by a non-governmental organization, the Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) and Gambian partner “Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa” (IHRDA).

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met behind closed doors with the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to Punch, the meeting which was held inside the President’s office, centred on efforts being made by Army authorities to restore peace to troubled parts of the country, particularly areas affected by Fulani herdsmen crisis.

The Supreme Court on Friday ordered, Erastus Akingbola, to return to the Federal High Court, Lagos, to answer his alleged five billion Naira fraud charge. Akingbola is a former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc. Justice Tanko Muhammad, leading a five-man panel, affirmed the Feb. 20, 2015 judgment of the Court of Appeal in Lagos which overturned the Federal High Court’s decision striking out the charges against Akingbola.

The Federal Government on Thursday said reports linking increasing violent clashes between herdsmen and farmers to religious difference was false and propagated by mischievous individuals for political capital. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the clarification during a Town Hall meeting organized by the Federal Government in Abuja.