The Federal Excessive Court docket in Abuja has ordered the Company Affairs Fee (CAC), its Registrar-Common, and the Federal Ministry of Youth Improvement to take care of the established order within the controversy surrounding the alleged deregistration of the Nationwide Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN).
The order adopted a swimsuit filed by the NYCN President, Ambassador Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo, difficult the purported deregistration of the apex youth physique by the CAC.
It will likely be recalled that on October 7, 2025, the CAC, by way of the Ministry of Youth Improvement, introduced the deregistration of the NYCN, simply days after Sukubo was re-elected as president regardless of pending court docket instances.
Within the restraining order issued on October 15, 2025, by Justice B.F.M. Nyako of the Federal Excessive Court docket, Abuja Division, in swimsuit quantity FHC/ABJ/CS/2142/2025, the court docket directed all events to take care of the established order ante bellum and ordered that the defendants be placed on discover.
The claimants within the case are the Integrated Trustees of the Nationwide Youth Council of Nigeria and Ambassador Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo, who additionally serves as secretary of the council’s Board of Trustees.
The defendants embody the Registrar-Common of the Company Affairs Fee, the CAC itself, the Minister of Youth Improvement, and the Federal Ministry of Youth Improvement.
The court docket adjourned the matter to October 28, 2025, for listening to of the Movement on Discover.
A part of the court docket order reads: “An Order of Interim Injunction restraining the first and 2nd Defendants (CAC and Registrar-Common), whether or not by themselves, their brokers, privies, servants, assigns, or anyone howsoever described, from withdrawing the registration certificates of the first Claimant or from de-recognizing all present claims to management, trusteeship, and administration inside the 1st Claimant pending the willpower of the Movement on Discover.”
The court docket additional restrained the Minister and the Ministry of Youth Improvement from appearing on or implementing the alleged deregistration pending the listening to of the substantive movement.
Justice Nyako, after listening to arguments from counsel to the claimants, Mustapha Shaba Ibrahim, SAN, ordered all events to take care of peace and protect the established order till the following listening to date.
