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In this piece, a legal practitioner and Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Onyejekulum Ebube examines the Stamp Duties Act 2004 as amended by the Finance Act 2020 to critique the …
Examining the legality of FIRS’ newly prescribed stamp duty rates Read More
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN, has described Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) as grave violations of the human rights of victims. …
SGBV grave violation of human rights – Malami Read More
All is now set for the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja to deliver judgement in a petition filed by the candidate of the Liberation Movement (LM) in …
Tension as Bayelsa governorship tribunal schedules case for judgement Read More
An Abeokuta High Court, Tuesday sentenced a 35-year-old man, Adekunle Olalere to life imprisonment for raping a two years old girl. Olalere was convicted on a one-count charge of having …
Man, 35 bags life imprisonment for raping 2-year-old girl in Ogun Read More
A Civil group, Incorporated Trustee of Global Integrity Crusade Network, Monday, instituted a N2 billion suit against Sahara Reporters, Vanguard Media Limited and two others over an alleged defamatory publications …
Group files N2bn suit against SaharaReporters over Malami’s alleged scandal Read More
Prominent Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Wole Olanipekun, is leading four other members of the inner bar at the Federal high court in Benin in cases of certificate …
Certificate Forgery: APC begins fresh battle to disqualify Obaseki Read More
The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, has temporarily halted the annual redeployment of the court’s judges. Justice Tsoho blamed the suspension on the effects of …
COVID-19: FHC Chief Judge suspends annual transfer of judges Read More
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has requested President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently set up a special presidential investigative panel to probe grave corruption allegations in the Niger Delta …
SERAP writes Buhari, demands a special presidential panel to probe alleged N81.5b fraud in NDDC Read More
A Lagos based lawyer, Lawrence Nnoli has approached a Federal high court sitting in Lagos with a request for an order of mandamus compelling President Muhammadu Buhari to forward to …
Lagos lawyer sues Buhari, seeks order compelling him to send list of Supreme Court justice-nominees to senate for confirmation Read MoreIn his infamous letter issued last month to the 1998 transitional President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chief T.J.O. Okpoko, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), senior Nigerian lawyer, …
How 2020 elections of the NBA will be rigged Read More
It feels like a scene in a horror movie except that this is no fiction but a real account of the brutal suffering inflicted on 14-year Princess Michael from Kajuru, …
Princess Michael: What will justice do? Read MoreA date, July 21 was fixed on Wednesday by the Federal High Court Abuja, in respect of a suit seeking to stop the Senate from screening and confirming 11 nominees …
Suit seeking to stop Senate from screening 11 nominees as judges gets July 21 date Read MoreThe Federal Judicial Service Commission disclosed on Wednesday that poor budgetary allocation to the judiciary was stalling the appointment of new justices for both the Supreme Court and the Court …
Supreme Court: ‘Poor budgetary allocation stalling judges appointment’ Read MoreThe Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed a N34 billion fraud charge filed by the Federal Government against Global West Vessel Specialist Ltd, a company linked to a former …
N34bn fraud charge against ex-NIMASA DG Akpobolokemi, Tompolo firm dismissed Read MoreLegal practitioners under the aegis of Lawyers in Defence of Democracy have again written to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to approve the list of 33 nominees rightly recommended to …
FCT High Court: Approve 33 nominees, Lawyers tell Buhari Read MoreThe Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that virtual court sittings are not unconstitutional. In other words, the apex court had by the pronouncement justified the constitutionality of virtual sitting. They …
Virtual court sitting constitutional, Supreme Court declares Read More
The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out Timi Alaibe’s appeal challenging the validity of the candidacy of Governor Duoye Diri in the November 2019 election in Bayelsa. The former had in …
Updated: Supreme Court throws out Timi Alaibe’s suit as Diri wins again Read MoreA regional organization, the International Human Rights Commission has pledged to partner with the leadership of Nigerian courts in order to help it actualise its mandate. The Country Head International …
Group pledges readiness to partner courts on human rights Read More
The 5th Prosecution witness, Inspector Samuel Abdullahi, in the alleged kidnapping trial of Hamisu Bala Aka Wadume on Monday told the court that his team retrieved six guns from the …
We retrieved six guns from Wadume, prosecution witness tells court Read MoreSuits challenging the validity and constitutionality of the Virtual Court Sittings procedure filed by Ekiti and Lagos state governments will be heard on July 14, 2020. The suits marked “SC/CV/260/2020’’, listed …
Suit against virtual hearing gets July 14 date at Supreme Court Read More
The staff Union of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has been cautioned against embarking on their proposed strike. The Management team gave the advice in a statement on Monday. The proposed …
Unpaid minimum wage: NHRC boss wants employees to shelve strike Read More
A Chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Barrister Kalu Agu, has instituted a court action challenging the dissolution of the Comrade Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC). In …
APC chieftain dares Buhari, challenges dissolution of Oshiomole –led NWC in court Read More
The Commissioners for Health in Cross River and Kogi states are to be prosecuted before a court of competent jurisdiction over their alleged unethical conduct in the fight against the …
Commissioners to face NMA probe panel, court prosecution over Covid-19 Read More
Ex- Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, told the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that a substantial part of the money found at his Kaduna residence by …
I got cash gifts after leaving office, ex-NNPC boss tells court Read More
Again, a prosecution witness Mohammed Dauda Wednesday testified against Senator Shehu Sani, in the alleged bribery charge instituted against him by the EFCC at the Federal High Court in Abuja. …
‘Extortion’: Again, witness indicts Senator Sani Read More