The National Judicial Council (NJC) on Wednesday recommended Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad to President Muhammadu Buhari for appointment as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). The decision which was conveyed
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A bill seeking to create a new commission to tackle the proliferation of arms in the country has passed second reading in the House of Representatives. The commission, when created,
Justice Dorcas Agishi of the Federal High Court on Wednesday ordered the Inspector General of Police Muhammed Adamu, and Abba Kyari, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in charge of Intelligence
A Kaduna State High Court has sentenced one Emuze Omosigho Emmanuel, to one year in imprisonment for defrauding three foreign nationals. This was contained in a statement issued by the
The Senate, on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to ban the production, importation or circulation of snipers insecticide, a product currently being used to commit suicide. This followed a motion
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers 1. Protesting Shiites members agitating against the continuous incarceration of their leader, Sheik Al-Zacky Zacky, on Tuesday clashed with the Nigeria
Embattled Sen. Ishiaku Abbo (PDP-Adamawa) on Tuesday challenged members of the Senate investigative panel handling his alleged case of assault on a nursing mother not to threaten him with suspension.
The Provost of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Ikeja Branch, Lagos, Olubunmi Odeniyi, on Tuesday, told Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, how insurance
An Ibadan based trader, Wasiu Ajibola, has told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, to dissolve his 15-year-old marriage to his wife, Sadiya, due to her stubbornness and disobedience to
Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Adamu Kafarati has directed that all political cases still pending before the court should be concluded by October 2019. Kafarati made the
Governor Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa State has directed all the local government councils to start paying to the contributory pension scheme when ever they received their federal allocation before any
The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal, Monday reserved judgment in the appeal filed against President Muhammadu Buhari’s academic qualification for the 2019 presidential election. The three-member panel of
Prof. Wole Soyinka has heaped the blame of disregard for rule of law and the dictates of the constitution in the country on President Muhammadu Buhari. Soyinka made this assertion
A Federal Capital Territory Magistrate Court has granted bail to Senator Elisha Abbo in the sum of N5million and two sureties in like sum. DAILY POST recalls that Abbo was
A Non-Governmental organisation, HURIWA, has decried the deliberate jailing of youngsters accused of petty advanced fee fraud cases by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. It lamented that while “big time
38 Nigerian lawyers have been conferred with the award of the Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN). The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee in Nigeria conferred the lawyers with the honours after
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, secured final forfeiture of 244 vehicles and petroleum products contained in each of the vehicles in Rivers. The forfeiture order was
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, signed three bills into law. The Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters, Senate, Ita Enang, made this known to State House correspondents on Friday.
The Nigerian Government has just taken possession of forty million United State Dollars worth of pieces of jewelry from Deizani Allison-Madueke, a former minister of petroleum. Here is the list
The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly on Thursday confirmed the 19 Commissioner-nominees and two Special Adviser-nominees sent to it by Governor Udom Emmanuel. The Speaker, Mr Aniekan Bassey, said
