Year: 2016

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has barred judges being investigated for criminal offences from presiding over cases and performing other functions relating to their offices pending when their innocence is established.The NJC made the decision at its 79th meeting held […]

The Court of Appeal in Lagos on Wednesday reserved judgment in the appeal filed by Segun Fabunmi, the former Divisional Police Officer of Pen Cinema Agege Police Station, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter.  The sentence was passed on him in December 2015 by a Lagos High Court following the death of one Ademola Aderintola Daramola during the […]

°Reserves sentence pending the end of trialDavidson Iriekpen A Federal High Court in Lagos wednesday convicted the four companies allegedly used by a former Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan, Waripamo-owei Emmanuel Dudafa, to launder $15,591,700. The trial judge, Justice […]

The failure of the police to arrest the chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State, Mr Jide Awe for alleged murder has made a high court in Ado Ekiti to strike out the murder charge preferred against the […]

Amnesty International has condemned the 10 years imprisonment  imposed by a Military Court in Cameroon  on three young men,  Fomusoh Ivo Feh, and his friends Afuh Nivelle Nfor and Azah Levis Gob – who were convicted of ‘non-denunciation of terrorist […]

The executive, not the National Judicial Council (NJC), should be blamed for corruption among judicial officers, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Mahmud Mohammed, has said.He said the failure of the executive to act upon recommendations by the Commission cannot […]