For the past 12 years, in honour of Chief Gani Fawehinmi the NBA Ikeja Branch have been organizing an annual lecture/ symposium every 15th of January. This year 2017 wouldn’t for any reason be an exception as the NBA Ikeja […]
Chief Abdul-Ganiyu “Gani” Oyesola Fawehinmi, (22 April 1938 – 5 September 2009) was a Nigerian author, well respected publisher, philanthropist, social critic, seasoned human and civil rights lawyer, politician and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). Early life Fawehinmi, popularly […]
Itsey Sagay Tobi Soniyi in Abuja The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), yesterday in Abuja warned that Nigeria was closed to losing another $550million stolen fund recovered from the family of late military Head […]
Some Abuja based lawyers have advocated full enforcement of laws on rape to curb the increasing cases of rape and defilement of under-aged children in the country.They made the call in Abuja on Friday. A lawyer, Mrs Lucy Okoye said […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed February 10 for ruling on a motion by Biafra agitator, Nnamdi Kanu, seeking to quash the charge against him.Justice Binta Nyako chose the date yesterday after listening to arguments for and against […]
The police in Ekiti State yesterday arraigned three men- Temitope Bamidele, Sunday Afolabi and Shuaibu Amidu- at the Magistrates’ Court in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, for alleged stealing.Bamidele and Afolabi are domestic aides of Governor Ayo Fayose.The men were arraigned […]
A commercial motorcyclist, Rasak Jimoh, 30, was on Thursday arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing ear piece valued N1,500.The accused, a resident of No. 8, Akerele St., Ikeja, Lagos, is facing a four-count charge bordering on […]
Detectives have traced over N632.2million to former Enugu State Chief Judge Innocent Azubuike Umezulike’s account.Some of the lodgements came from lawyers, businessmen, politicians and litigants, an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) source said yesterday.Besides, Justice Umezulike is believed to […]
A U.S. jury on Tuesday condemned white supremacist Dylann Roof to death for the hate-fueled killings of nine black parishioners at a Bible study meeting in a Charleston, South Carolina, church in 2015. The same jury last month found Roof, […]
Senator Ahmed Lawan (APC-Yobe North) on Wednesday resumed as the new Senate Majority Leader.The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, at plenary on Tuesday, announced Senator Lawan as Leader of the Senate.Details later.