By Paschal Njoku ABUJA – Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has assured that all assessment and punitive mechanisms would be put in place to rid the country’s judiciary of “bad eggs.” Justice Muhammad gave the assurance on Tuesday, at the […]
By Ann Godwin Governor Nyesom Wike has said Rivers would not enact a bill for financial autonomy of the judiciary, arguing that nobody could dictate to him how to run the state. He stated that it would be futile to bother […]
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 […]
Lawyers moved in large numbers to the Moriri Art Centre at Rumuogba Estate today to view the Solo Exhibition of one of their own. The exhibition held simultaneously with a well organized Cocktail and light music in the foremost Art […]
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 […]