Legal Nigeria

By Ray Ekpu Scale of Justice Amnesty International, the libertarian crusader for near-absolute rights, has just released its 2017 annual report on capital punishment aka death penalty. It thinks the world is making progress, although slow, towards abolishing the death penalty. […]

+ Arrest woman for alleged murder of South African lover Fresh information from the police on Monday indicated that lawyer, Udemeh Otike-Odibe might have premeditated the murder of her husband, Sym Otike-Odibe.Mrs. Otike-Odibe had on Thursday morning stabbed her estranged […]

+ A Lokoja Chief Magistrates’ Court yesterday remanded Senator Dino Melaye and two others in police custody until June 11.The others are Kabiru Seidu, 31, and Nuhu Salihu, 25.They were arraigned on a seven-count charge of criminal conspiracy and unlawful […]

+ Embattled Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West) was yesterday arraigned before a Magistrate’s Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, for allegedly  jumping out of a police vehicle.He was accused, in a First Information Report (FIR), of destroying the side glass […]

+ What is the Achilles’ heel of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015? According to some legal experts, it is lack of funding and attitudinal factors, among others. How can the law become better? What other reforms are […]