President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja emphasized that security chiefs have received marching orders to go harder on criminals, including to shoot anyone found illegally with AK-47. The President spoke at a meeting with the National Council of Traditional […]
Rep. Garba Datti (APC-Kaduna state) has urged the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) to forward its argument against the bill to decentralise minimum wage to the house public hearing. Datti, also the sponsor of the bill said rather than resort to […]
The Nigerian government on Thursday said it has replaced the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) with the Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) as stamp duty collector. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, made the disclosure at the launch […]
By Eric Ikhilae, Abuja and Mike Odiegwu, Port Harcourt The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck out two appeals filed by former Bayelsa State Governor Henry Seriake Dickson and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The appeals were on the […]
The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested 25 suspects for their alleged involvement in computer-related fraud. The suspects are: Ibrahim Olaiwon Olatunji, Kelechi Daniel David, Olutayo Oluwapelumi, Abiola Baruwa Gideon, Adesuyi Toheeb Adeyika, […]
• Summons three banks for alleged contempt Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo of Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday, declined to vacate her interim Mareva injunction directing 20 banks to block accounts of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) and its subsidiaries. The […]
The Court of Appeal in Benin, on Monday, set aside the judgment of the Edo High Court which disqualified the candidature of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, and his running mate, Alhaji Gani Audu, in the September 19, 2020 election in Edo […]
Justice Esther Edigin, Chief Judge of Edo, has extolled the leadership strides of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Director General, World Trade Organization (WTO), on the occasion of the 2021 International Women’s Day (IWD). Edigin gave the commendation during the 9th […]
Happy International Women’s Day I join the rest of the world particularly the ‘Women Bodies’ in the legal profession, that is, the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) and African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA) in celebrating women on this special […]
A legal practitioner, Mr Monday Ubani, has called for a total review of the criminal justice system in Nigeria, especially on ‘awaiting trial inmates’ in correctional facilities across country. Ubani, former 2nd Vice President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), […]