Court orders reinstatement of 70 pardoned soldiers, directs army to pay salaries from July 2022

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN), Lagos Division, has ordered the immediate reinstatement of 70 Nigerian Army personnel who were convicted by courts-martial in 2014 but later granted an unconditional presidential pardon by former President Muhammadu Buhari. In a judgment delivered on July 20, 2026, Justice S.A. Yelwa held that the presidential pardon, granted…