By Tony Okafor, Awka
An Anambra State High Court sitting in Awka has ordered the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and other respondents to immediately recall and remove all persons brought into or enabled to enter Tansian University, Umunya, on September 8, 2026, pending the hearing and determination of a substantive motion in a suit concerning the institution.
The interim order was made on Thursday, September 17, 2026, by Justice Ike Ogu of the High Court of Anambra State, Awka Judicial Division, in Suit No. A/MISC.459/2026 and Motion No. A/1589M/2026.
The court order was made available to our Correspondent by the Chief Press Secretary to Tansian University, Mr Fidelis Nwakwesili.
The applicants in the suit include Tansian University, Umunya, Anambra State Ltd/GTE; the university’s Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Nnamdi Dike Umeoduagu; the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Chairman, University Security, Prof. Anthony Ngonadi; and the Registrar, Rev. Innocent Ukeh, alongside other applicants.
The respondents include the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, its Commandant-General, the Anambra State Commandant, Mr Maku Olatunde, as well as Engr. Augustine C. Emelobe and several other individuals.
Justice Ogu, after hearing the ex-parte application filed on September 15, with an affidavit in support deposed to by Prof. Nnamdi Dike Umeoduagu, directed the respondents to “recall and remove forthwith” all persons they brought into or enabled to enter the university on September 8.
The court also ordered the respondents to stay all actions connected with the subject matter of the application pending the hearing and determination of the substantive motion on notice.
The judge granted the applicants leave to serve the first and second respondents with court processes through substituted means, specifically by serving them through the officers in charge of their respective legal departments at their headquarters in Abuja.
The court further held that the interim order would remain in force for seven days and consequently adjourned the substantive motion on notice to September 24, 2026, for hearing.
The order was issued at Awka under the seal of the court and the hand of the presiding judge on September 17, 2026.
