Legal Nigeria

Nice strategy to recover looted funds. But it poses some ethical concernThe percentage-cut reward policy for whistle-blowers that help to reclaim looted funds is nice strategy, and that is stating the obvious.But if you still doubt, just see its remarkable […]

  Lawyer, activist and businessman Audu Maikori was freed from security custody yesterday on bail following his arrest on Friday for allegedly spreading false information on the Southern Kaduna killings.Maikori was picked up in Lagos and flown to Abuja preparatory […]

Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) , Mrs Folake Solanke, has described the recent linking of  judges  and  senior lawyers  with corruption as a calamity for  the legal profession.Solanke spoke yesterday in Ibadan at a special court session by the Oyo […]

The Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen and the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Justice Ishaq Bello yesterday suggested ways of ensuring speedy trials in the nation’s courts.They said the general application of the […]

The Nigerian Army has demoted two soldiers, Cpl. Bature Samuel and Cpl. Abdulazeez Usman of 82 Provost Company in Onitsha, Anambra, to Private for human rights abuse The Nigerian Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, made this known in a statement […]

An account official of the Federal High Court yesterday shed light into the earning of federal judges.He said a judge goes home with about N833,638.76 monthly made up of N528,638.76 basic salary and N305,000 welfare allowance.The Chief Accountant of the […]