By Bridget Chiedu Onochie, Ameh Ochojila and Joseph Onyekwere • HURIWA Lauds Judgment• It’s Pyrrhic Victory, Setback – Lawyers• Governors Will Take Position After Studying Judgment, Says Fayemi• Order Not Unconstitutional, Dissenting Judge Insists In a split decision of six Justices […]
Supreme Court
By Kingsley Jeremiah and Ameh Ochojila Firm to commission LPG extraction, power plants at Otakikpo marginal field The Supreme Court, yesterday, in Abuja, fixed May 6 for judgment in a legal battle involving Rivers and Imo States over the ownership of […]
AUTHOR:Bolanle Olabimtan The supreme court has upturned the conviction of Joseph Nwobike, former senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), on technical grounds. The court held that the EFCC lacked the power to prosecute anyone for the offence of perversion of justice. The Economic […]
By Paschal Njoku The Supreme Court will today, Tuesday, hear an appeal by the former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, challenging his removal from office before the expiration of his four-year tenure. The suit slated […]
By Eric Ikhilae The Supreme Court will on December 7 deliver judgment in the case filed by the 36 state governments against the Federal Government over the dispute on the funding of superior courts in the states and the legality of […]
By Azimazi Momoh Jimoh, Ameh Ochojila, Ernest Nzor and Charles Ogugbuaja • Affirms judiciary can’t only bark but also bite• Senior advocates demand investigation• Assault is part of APC plot to hijack 2023 elections, PDP alleges• IGP unsuited to probe matter, […]
by Samuel Akpan Uche Secondus, suspended chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says he will appeal the judgement rejecting his request to stop the party’s national convention. Secondus had approached an appeal court in Rivers seeking an order of […]
by Samuel Akpan Uche Secondus, suspended chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says he will appeal the judgement rejecting his request to stop the party’s national convention. Secondus had approached an appeal court in Rivers seeking an order of […]
by Bolanle Olabimtan The supreme court has affirmedChukwuma Soludo, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for the November 6 election in Anambra state. The five-member panel […]
By Unini Chioma Notices have been sent to lawyers seeking to be conferred with the rank of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) for the year 2021, ahead of the oral interview slated to hold between October 18 and 20. In […]