Court orders CAC to restore NYCN registration

A Federal High Court sitting successful Abuja on Friday ordered the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, to reconstruct the registration of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, and reinstate Ambassador Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo and different members of its Board of Trustees.

The tribunal besides directed that the interim absorption committee led by Buhari Shehu, appointed by CAC and the Ministry of Youths Development to oversee the affairs of the council, beryllium instantly disbanded, declaring its constitution and continued cognition unlawful.

Justice Binta Nyako, who delivered the judgment, held that the CAC, arsenic a regulatory agency, lacks the statutory powers to find the tenure of leaders of an enactment oregon to represent an interim absorption committee for immoderate registered association.

The commission, connected October 6, 2025, withdrew the NYCN certificate of registration that had earlier been issued connected October 28, 2020.

Following that development, the CAC and the Ministry of Youth D...