By The Nation CASE TITLE: AKINYEMI IDOWU JEGEDE v. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA (2021) LPELR – 55072 (CA)JUDGMENT DATE: 14TH MAY, 2021 JUSTICES: CHIDI NWAOMA UWA, JCATUNDE OYEBANJI AWOTOYE, JCAJAMES GAMBO ABUNDAGA, JCA COURT DIVISION: LAGOSPRACTICE AREA: Criminal Law and Procedure- Offence of Obtaining by False […]
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A United States human right group, Take It Back Movement (TIB), on Monday has said Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu’s statement warning citizens not to protest in respect to the commemoration of the anniversary of #EndSARS protests is […]
Today commemorates the international Day of celebration of the Girl-Child. It is a day set aside to celebrate theGirl Child and advocate for support towards her welfare and protection of her wellbeing. The significance of this Day being principally to […]
ASUP has called on President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime and some state governors to pay outstanding arrears of the minimum wage. NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime and some […]
By Unini Chioma Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, in Lagos, will on November 3, 2021, decide whether or not to vacate a freezing order placed in about 20 bank accounts belonging to the Bauchi State government in a […]
Mr Ojerinde was seeking an adjournment of his trial for the third time. NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Friday, fined former JAMB registrar, Dibu Ojerinde, N100,000 over his plea for an adjournment, […]
By Unini Chioma The Court of Appeal sitting in Asaba has thrown out a suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) seeking to sack all 25 local government councils’ chairmen and councilors in Delta State. The APC had challenged the […]
By Unini Chioma *Prof Paul Ananaba– SPIDEL has made progress.*SPIDEL Will becomes a section every lawyer will crave to join– Dr. Ubani The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law(SPIDEL), on Friday, commissioned its new office in Abuja. […]
by Bolanle Olabimtan A federal high court in Abuja has fixed November 8 to deliver judgment in the alleged N2.1 billion fraud case filed against Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT). In 2019, Maina was […]
by Malik Abdulganiy The federal government has filed criminal charges against Olanrewaju Suraju, chairman of HEDA Resource Centre, at a federal high court, Abuja, over allegations of circulating the audio of a stage-managed phone interview with Mohammed Bello Adoke, a […]