The Rivers State Judiciary has released 23 detainees after judicial officers reviewed cases at correctional centres in Port Harcourt, Ahoada and Degema.
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Ifeanyi Ejiofor has responded after Nnamdi Kanu terminated his legal retainer, saying his silence has been guided by professional ethics and respect for confidentiality.
The Court of Appeal in Akure has upheld Professor Sunday Amuseghan’s appointment as Kalasuwe of Apoiland, finding that the challenger was ineligible under the stool’s rotational arrangement.
NBA Ilorin has urged the Kwara State Government to open urgent talks with striking law officers, warning that the dispute is disrupting prosecutions, court matters and public legal services.
A fugitive drug kingpin, Ntoruka Emmanuel Chinedu, and an ex-international football player, Hunkarin Segun George, have been convicted and sentenced to a combined 24 years’ imprisonment by Justice Musa Kakaki of the Federal High Court, Lagos, for unlawful importation of […]
By Emeka Anaeto, Business Editor As the Federal Government pushes ahead with its comprehensive fiscal realignments, a critical missing link in the nation’s tax ecosystem has finally been plugged with the formal operationalisation of the Office of the Tax Ombud. The […]
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN), Lagos Division, has ordered the immediate reinstatement of 70 Nigerian Army personnel who were convicted by courts-martial in 2014 but later granted an unconditional presidential pardon by former President Muhammadu Buhari. In a […]
The United States has activated its specialised Alien Terrorist Removal Court for the first time since Congress created it in 1996. Here is how the tribunal works and why the case matters.
Cinfores Limited will hold a virtual training for NBA members on the updated LagosCoMIS platform on Wednesday, 29 July 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
A high-stakes criminal trial involving alleged forgery and the diversion of N460,750,000 took a dramatic turn this week at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, after the principal defendant failed to appear in court, citing a medical emergency abroad without […]