In Its Harshest Choice Of Words Ever, Supreme Court Descends On Counsel, Calls His Case Juvenile, Slams N50m Fines On Him

For a  Nigerian Lawyer, S.M. Danyaro, it was like a bad dream, worse than a nightmare. He would, by now, be cursing the day he decided to take an application for review   before the Supreme case of Nigeria.

Not a few people are asking how he “found the legs” to leave the premises of the Supreme Court.

In a ruling signed on June 22, 2026, which has now been made public, a Supreme Court Justice, The Honourable Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme, PhD, descended on him for ever, even, thinking of bringing such an application for a review before the Supreme Court.

Nwosu-Iheme described the application as vexatious and an abusive of application filed after the conclusion of a substantive appeal.

As punishment, his application was not only entirely dismissed, he was slammed with a fine of N50 million which he must personally pay with a period of 90 days. He dismissed the Lawyer as “uncultured.”

Worse, Nwosu-Iheme, the first female Judge in Nigeria to earn a PhD, known for her compassionate, but no nonsense disposition, directed that the Lawyer be denied right of audience in any Court in Nigeria until “he complies with the Court’s order and files a certificate of compliance before the Court.”

Justice Nwosu-Iheme’s ruling followed the lead ruling of Justice Jamilu Yammama Tukur, JSC, which Nwosu-Iheme fully agreed with.

According to Nwosu-Iheme, Danyaro’s application ranks among the worst ever brought before Nigeria’s highest court.

She said: “I agree entirely with the reasoning and abide by the conclusion in the lead Ruling that this Application is one of the most thoughtless and irresponsible Applications ever brought before this Court.”