A Wizz Air passenger flight travelling from London Luton Airport to Sofia, Bulgaria, was forced to make an emergency diversion to Budapest on Monday following a bomb threat received mid-flight. Hungarian defense authorities scrambled a Gripen fighter jet to intercept […]
A Federal High Court has dismissed a fundamental rights enforcement suit seeking over ₦250 million in damages against the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) and military authorities, ruling that the applicant’s evidence was heavily flawed with contradictions and inconsistencies. The presiding […]
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has approved the payment of a 13th-month pension bonus to all state retirees, alongside an additional one-off welfare support package to cushion economic pressures. The announcement was made during a gathering with state […]
A Lagos State High Court has issued an interim order barring the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from arresting, detaining, or harassing over 200 applicants, including executives, dealers, distributors, and business associates of Honda Manufacturing (Nigeria) Limited and Honda […]
Legal experts and civil society groups have commended the Federal Government over the recent mass trial and high volume of convictions secured against terrorism suspects across the country. The commendation follows intensive judicial proceedings spearheaded by the Office of the […]
A Professor of Law, Osaretin George Izevbuwa, has strongly criticized Nigeria’s criminal justice system, highlighting that over 52,000 inmates remain incarcerated awaiting trial while institutional failures continue to plague the nation’s correctional facilities. Delivering the 27th inaugural lecture of Igbinedion […]
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has reinforced its strategic alliance with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), and other key regulatory bodies to combat cross-border financial […]
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has nullified the legislative arrest order issued against Professor Smith Jaja, the Vice-Chancellor of PAMO University of Medical Sciences, by the Rivers State House of Assembly. Presiding over the fundamental rights […]
A Lagos State High Court has granted an interim injunction restraining the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from arresting or detaining representatives, executives, dealers, distributors, and business associates of Honda Manufacturing (Nigeria) Limited and Honda Automobile Western Africa Limited. […]
Human rights lawyer and former Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Owerri Branch, Chinedu Agu, has publicly questioned the procedural integrity of court filings submitted by the branch leadership, highlighting a glaring chronological inconsistency involving an October 30 document […]