Nigeria has seen corruption. Nigeria has seen scandal. But NEVER has the nation witnessed anything as jaw-dropping as the judicial bombshell that exploded on Thursday, 27 November 2025 at exactly 2pm against NESTOIL LIMITED — a moment that many lawyers now call ‘the hour justice died.’
JUSTICE YARGATA NIMPAR DELIVERS JUDGMENT THAT FELL FROM THE SKY
There was no court sitting,
no cause list,
no lawyers,
no arguments — nothing.
Yet a fully typed, stamped, panel-signed Appeal Court judgment suddenly appeared like a lightning bolt dropped from the heavens.
Even more shocking?
THE CASE HAS NEVER BEEN HEARD AT THE HIGH COURT.
How does an appeal court hear a case that doesn’t even exist in the lower court?
THE $3 MILLION YACHT DEAL BY FEMI OTEDOLA THAT STARTED IT ALL
Sources claim the entire operation began days earlier on the billionaire’s luxury yacht cruising silently off Lagos waters.
On that yacht:
a powerful lawyer, Babajide Koku
a whispering judge, Muhammed Anka
two silent businessmen,
and a mysterious $3 million cash package.
A top insider described the meeting bluntly:
“It wasn’t a meeting. It was a cash-powered coronation. They bought a judgment like buying bread in Balogun Market.”
THE JUDGES WHO SIGNED WHAT THEY NEVER HEARD
When the controversial judgment leaked, lawyers were stunned to see it carried multiple signatures.
“How?”
“Where?”
“When?”
Nobody knows.
There was no record,
no digital footprint,
no courtroom proceedings.
Just a clean, polished document — signed in secret.
One court worker said:
“It came from nowhere. Like magic… or madness.”
A JUDICIAL ROBBERY IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
Veteran legal practitioners say they haven’t seen such an abomination since the 1970s.
Some are calling it:
“The ₦4.8 Billion Judicial Heist”
“The Appeal Court Coup”
“The Ghost Judgment of Lagos”
Whatever the name, the effect was immediate:
Nigerians erupted.
Lawyers panicked.
Judges went silent.
Social media caught fire.
THE NESTOIL SCANDAL THAT REFUSES TO DIE
Rumours are flying.
Voices are rising.
Fingers are pointing.
Nobody is safe.
Every new day brings another leak, another insider confession, another mysterious detail about the yacht, the dollars, and the judgment manufactured in a backroom.
Even within the Appeal Court, tempers are high.
The secret is too big, the money too much, the scandal too loud.
One senior registrar whispered:
“This is not corruption. This is a judicial jailbreak.”
NIGERIA’S MOST DANGEROUS QUESTION
How many other judgments were bought?
How many truths were buried?
How many lives were changed by signatures written in the dark?
This scandal raises one terrifying possibility:
If justice can be sold, then no Nigerian is safe.