By Lawrence Njoku and Ngozi Egenuka (With Agency Report) No ad-hoc staff resigned over IPOB’s threat, says INECThe United Nations (UN) has made “pressing appeals” to Nigerian and Kenyan governments to explain the “unlawful arrest and extradition” of the leader of […]
By AFP Former Liberia President Charles Taylor seen during the Ivory Coast conference in Paris January 26, 2003. Former Liberian warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor, jailed for five decades for war crimes, has filed a lawsuit against his country’s government over its ‘refusal’ […]
By Robert Egbe A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) permission to play a compact disc containing the 2,410 messages found on the iPhone of Azeez Fashola aka Naira Marley. Justice Nicholas Oweibo […]
By Ameh Ochojila There appears to be no respite yet for a former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, as the Federal Government, yesterday asked the Court of Appeal in Abuja to order his fresh trial in an alleged N7.1 billion […]
By Agency Reporter A South African judge on Tuesday dismissed an application by former president Jacob Zuma to have the prosecutor in his arms deal corruption trial removed. Zuma, ousted by the governing African National Congress in 2018, had argued that […]
By Samuel Oamen The United Nations has raised eyebrows over the arrest of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by the Department of State Services (DSS) and his alleged torture while in custody. The UN’s […]
By Mike Odiegwu, The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has reserved its decision on a motion filed by the former Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, praying the court for an order suspending […]
By Unini Chioma Lawyers from Igbo speaking region of Nigeria have applied to the Federal High Court in Abuja to join them as defendants in a suit filed by a group of Northern elders, praying for the exit of the South […]
• Says CBN circular to banks is not a law By Robert Egbe A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has vacated an interim order through which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) froze the bank accounts in two banks of […]
By Samuel Ogidan ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the case instituted at the High Court in Kaduna to prevent the party from holding its national convention scheduled for October 30 and 31, 2021. The party, which said […]