Media Rights Agenda
Lagos, Wednesday, March 22, 2017: Justice Beatrice Oke-Lawal of the High Court of Lagos State, Ikeja Division has granted Media Rights Agenda (MRA) leave to sue the Lagos State Ministry of Health (the Ministry) for its refusal to grant access to the information requested by MRA pursuant to the Freedom …
Read More »Court Orders Police to Disclose to Media Rights Agenda its Information Classification Practices
Monday, August 22, 2016: A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Nigerian Police and Inspector General of Police to disclose to Media Rights Agenda (MRA) information relating to practices and procedures for the classification of records and documents held by the Police. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba made the order …
Read More »Court Orders Oshimili North LG Council in Delta State to Disclose Budgets, Approved Projects
A Federal High Court in Asaba has ordered of the Oshimili North Local Government Council in Delta State to disclose to a Lagos-based non-governmental organization, Human Development Initiatives (HDI), the council’s budgets from 2012 to 2014 and the projects duly approved for implementation in 2013. The court’s decision comes in …
Read More »FOI Suits: Court Orders 2 LG Councils in Delta State to Disclose Budgets, Approved Projects
Wednesday, February 18, 2015: A Federal High Court in Asaba today issued an order of mandamus compelling two local government councils in Delta State – the Oshimili South and the Ika South Local Government Areas – to disclose to a Lagos-based non-governmental organization, Human Development Initiatives (HDI), the councils’ budgets …
Read More »Failure of Respondent to Furnish Applicant with Information Sought Amounts to a Wrongful Denial of Information – FOI Law Report
In the High Court of Justice Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria Holden at Abuja Before His Lordship: Honourable Justice Olukayode A. Adeniji, Judge Sitting at Court No. 26 Apo-Abuja On Tuesday, 9th July, 2013 Motion No. M/3059/13 Between: Public & Private Development Centre – PLAINTIFF LTD/GT (PPDC) And Integrated …
Read More »Court Grants EiE Leave to Compel FAAN, First Bank, Coscharis to Disclose Purchase Documents of Bullet Proof cars
A Federal High Court in Lagos on February 27, 2014 granted Enough is Enough (EiE) Nigeria, a non-governmental organization, leave to apply to the court in three separate suits to compel the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) and Coscharis Motors Limited to disclose the information …
Read More »Court Orders Minister of Finance to Publish Details of Statutory Transfers
Finance Minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, by a Federal High Court in Abuja has been ordered to grant the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) access to the details of the statutory transfers in the 2013 federal budget. This is by the judgement of Justice Abdu Kafarati of the Federal High Court, …
Read More »Judge Rules that FOI Act is of General Application to all tiers of Government, their Officials, Agencies and Institutions
In the High Court of Justice Oyo State of Nigeria In the Ibadan Judicial Division Holden at Ibadan Before the Honourable Justice S. A. Akinteye, Judge Thursday, the 31st Day of October, 2013 Court No. 54 Suit No. M/332/12 Between: Yomi Ogunlola & 1 Or – CLAIMANTS And Speaker, …
Read More »NCAA Refuses to Disclose Procurement Records for Purchase of Bullet-Proof Cars to MRA, PPDC
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said in November that it would not release the procurement records for the purchase of two controversial bullet proof cars in response to a Freedom of Information request for them because releasing them would undermine ongoing administrative and criminal investigations into the matter. The …
Read More »Groups Ask Court to Compel Federal Attorney General to Prosecute NCAA for Wrongful Denial of Access to Information
Lagos, Monday, December 9, 2013: Two non-governmental organizations have filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Lagos asking the court to compel the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to release to them the procurement records for the controversial purchase of two bullet proof cars for Aviation Minister, Mrs. …
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