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The House of Representatives has passed into law, a bill seeking to establish a Research and Development Bureau that will conduct and coordinate robust research and development for the Department of State Services. Chairman of the House Committee on National Security and Intelligence, Ahmed Satome (APC, Borno) […]
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 […]
By Eric Ikhilae, Abuja The Supreme Court has affirmed the June 18 judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, upholding the nomination of Governor Abiodun Oyebanji as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the June 20 governorship […]
Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt vacates a 15-month freeze on 124 accounts tied to businesswoman Aisha Achimugu, while setting aside a lower court order that had reversed a disputed ₦1.8bn EFCC transfer.
IT is no longer news that terrorism is live in our country, Nigeria. As we speak, we have home-grown terrorists, mostly radicalized, unemployed youths in cahoots with foreign terrorists with international affiliations like ISWAP and Al Qaeda plying their nefarious […]
Justice Ibrahim Ahmad Kala of a Federal High Court, Lagos, has fixed October 5, 2026, for the arraignment of Austin Albert, Managing Director/CEO of Loft and Keys Ltd, Loft & Keys LLC, Dubai, and his associate, Jinadu Musbau Olalekan, over […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday turned down the request to hear a fresh application filed by detained National President of Miyetti Allah Kauta Kore, Alhaji Bello Bodejo, to vary the conditions attached to the bail recently granted him. The […]
We sit in air conditioned sanctuaries draped in the solemn austerity of black and white, parsing the fragile architecture of jurisprudence with the steady hands of secular priests. We cite sections and subsections like sacred scripture, penning eloquent briefs on […]
National Welfare Secretary-Elect of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Audrey Chinelo Ofoegbunam, has congratulated Chief Mrs. Wendy Kuku, SAN, on her conferment as Yeye Aare Akorewolu of Ekiirin-Adde, Kogi State, describing the honour as a well-deserved recognition of her outstanding […]