Tag: Ecowas Court

SERAP sued the Nigerian government at the ECOWAS Court, alleging persistent and unsustainable borrowing by the government, which it said ...

The ECOWAS Court directed the government to “submit a detailed compliance report to the Court, including statistical updates on the ...

The suit that led to the ECOWAS Court judgement delivered in April documented cases where individuals faced arbitrary arrest, detention, ...

While the Harmonised Protocol integrates years of fragmented amendments into a single comprehensive text, the Arbitration Rules will serve as ...

The court held that Nigeria failed to present any new facts warranting a review.

Mr Sheriff's lawyers said he was born in Liberia but raised in Guinea and alleged that both countries colluded in ...

ECOWAS Court calls for bridging the existing communication gap between the court and national authorities to foster judgement compliance.

In the suit, the applicants alleged that Ghanaian authorities unlawfully arrested and detained, them after the group declared independence from ...

The court held that the applicant’s detention without charge for about 16 years not only constituted a violation of his ...

In its judgement delivered in Lagos, a three-member panel ruled that the West African regional court lacked jurisdiction to hear ...

Senegal defended the internet shutdowns, citing public order and national security concerns due to the dissemination of allegedly subversive messages.

The former Senegalese minister said he was barred from boarding an international flight on 28 August 2024, after completing all ...

The court declared Section 382(b) of the Kano State Sharia Penal Code Law (2000), which imposes the death penalty for ...

The ECOWAS Court had “ordered Nigerian authorities to stop using section 24 of the Cybercrime Act 2015 to prosecute anyone ...

Mr Adebayo had sued the Nigerian government in 2023, alleging that police officers from the Ogun State Command subjected him ...

The petitioner had approached the court with an application praying for the enforcement of his rights.

The new judges were elected by the court’s college of five judges and subsequently inaugurated by Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Embalo.

ECOWAS Court of Justice in session. The recent ruling is welcome, but the real test lies in securing compliance from ...

The ECOWAS Court ruled on a suit filed by three victims of human rights violations during the #EndSARS at Lekki ...

“Unless the court intervenes, the government will neither adopt measures to protect journalists nor cause any real, transparent, and impartial ...

ECOWAS Court of Justice in session. The true tragedy this time is that it is not a dictator, soldier, or ...

The Nigerian had told ECOWAS Court he had already served eight years of the 12 years jail time imposed on ...

The ECOWAS court ruled that the Nigerien junta failed to meet the additional requirement for the case to be admissible.

The ECOWAS Court rules that the Nigerian Press Council Act of 1992 fails to recognise public interest media including rights ...

Amnesty International says it found out that security forces committed war crimes in the North-east.