By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA– A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sitting at Maitama, on Monday, slated December 1 to hear a preliminary objection the embattled Senator for Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, filed to challenge the defamation charge […]
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By Paul Iyoghojie A 36-year-old tenant, Akinola Babatunde, has been remanded by a Lagos Magistrate’s Court after being accused of fraudulently selling his landlord’s property for N45 million. According to the police, Babatunde allegedly connived with others still at large […]
Human rights lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has accused the Lagos State Government of demolishing at least 100 properties in Oworonsoki despite a restraining order from the court. Last Thursday, Justice Adegboyega Balogun of the Lagos […]
By Ebere Agozie A Senior Advocate of Nigeria JB Daudu has warned the National Assembly that shifting the burden of proof provision in election cases as being proposed in the new Electoral Act could permanently damage the avowed neutrality of […]
Celebrating Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN — President of the Nigerian Bar Association Today, we celebrate a true leader of vision, integrity, and purpose — Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, President of the Nigerian Bar Association. Mazi, your leadership embodies courage, compassion, […]
The lawyer representing activist Omoyele Sowore has accused the Nigerian Police of violently re-arresting his client moments after a magistrate granted him bail. In a video circulating online, the lawyer said that Sowore, who was granted bail along with 13 others arrested […]
By Henry Umoru ABUJA – The Senate has reaffirmed the National Assembly’s commitment to delivering people-centred and timely amendments to the 1999 Constitution. Speaking on Friday at the two-day joint retreat of the Senate and House of Representatives’ Committee on […]
By Taiye Agbaje Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court on Friday in Abuja on Friday warned that he will not refrain from invoking appropriate provisions of the law if the leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) […]
A Magistrate’s Court in the Kuje area of Abuja on Friday granted bail to former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, and Aloy Ejimakor, a member of the legal team which represented the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), […]
The detained self acclaimed leader of the proscribed separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu failed to open his defence on Friday in his ongoing terrorism trial before a Federal High Court in Abuja. Kanu said he […]