By Yinka Kolawole The manufacturing sector’s contribution to tax revenue collections in Nigeria maintained an upward trend in 2025, contributing a total of N1.17 trillion in Value Added Tax (VAT) representing an increase of 45.61 percent over the N803.53 billion recorded in […]
Global technology company Meta Platforms, Inc. has appealed against the judgment of the Lagos State High Court delivered in favour of human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN). It sets the stage for a potentially precedent-setting legal battle over digital rights, platform […]
The Supreme Court has fixed April 14 for the hearing of an appeal filed by David Mark, national chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), in the ongoing leadership dispute with Nafiu Bala. The appeal, marked SC/CV/180/2026, challenges a ruling […]
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS, INSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY, LEGAL JUSTICE, AND THE ECNBA 2026 QUESTION In defence of Chief Okutepa, SAN’s right to accept a brief to defend the NBA’s constitution. I have read, first, the write-up of Chief Okutepa, SAN on his alleged […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri A former senatorial candidate in Borno State, Babagana Habeeb, was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for selling petrol to Boko Haram terrorists. Habeeb, who contested the 2015 election, was convicted by the Federal High […]
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has warned lawyers against instituting court actions aimed at drawing the judiciary into internal disputes within political parties, vowing to impose disciplinary sanctions on erring practitioners. The association, in a statement issued, expressed concern over […]
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has raised the alarm over what it called escalating judicial interference in the internal affairs of political parties, warning that such trends pose serious constitutional and democratic risks ahead of the 2027 general elections. In […]
By Innocent Anaba The Supreme Court on Friday restored Wole Olanipekun, SAN and Dr. Muiz Banire, SAN, as counsel for Neconde Energy Limited and Nestoil Limited in the ongoing $2 billion debt dispute, setting aside the earlier decision of the […]
Federal High Court in Abuja has acquitted and discharged Mrs. Isabella Oshodin and Bob Oshodin Organisation Limited of charges in a money laundering case. Justice James Omotosho held that the prosecution failed to prove the allegations beyond a reasonable doubt. Delivering […]
By Taiye Agbaje The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday sentenced a Boko Haram terrorist who confessed to conveying female suicide bombers to target locations and participation in multiple attacks in Borno and Adamawa States to death by hanging. […]