The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Legal Adviser, Emmanuel Enoidem, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of plotting a third term and Islamization agenda using the hate speech bill. Enoidem said
The Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar on Wednesday affirmed the victory of Governor Udom Emmanuel of the PDP in the March 9 gubernatorial elections in Akwa Ibom State. The
The Court of Appeal sitting in Jos, Plateau State, on Thursday, upheld the victory of Senator representing Plateau Central, Nde Hezekiah Dimka of the All Progressives Congress (APC). It also
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has threatened legal action against the Department of State Services (DSS), for refusing to release the convener of the #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele
One Joseph Sunday of Obot Ideng, in Ibesikpo local government area of Akwa Ibom state, has landed himself in police net for allegedly raping his two daughters aged nine and
An Abuja Federal High Court has granted bail to the convener of RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu granted Sowore bail in the sum of N100 million, on Friday.
The Kogi State Chief Judge, Justice Nasir Ajanah on Monday inaugurated a seven-man panel to investigate the allegation of gross misconduct against the State Deputy Governor, Elder Simon Achuba. The
President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to two bills passed by the 8th National Assembly. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Sen. Ita Enang disclosed
A businessman, Mr Wahab Lukmon, on Thursday prayed an Egbe-Idumu Customary Court to grant the request of his wife, Olabisi, for divorce because she wants him dead. Olabisi had sought
The South-west state assemblies say they will establish laws that will impose stiffer punishment on kidnappers in the region. Lagos and Ogun states already have laws prescribing the death penalty
The bill to establish Abia State House of Assembly Service Commission, has been passed into law by the leadership of the current 7th house. The passage of the bill took
A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, on Thursday, remanded a security guard over stealing of printing machine parts worth N3.8 million. Harrison Lar, who resides at Ketu area of
The Nigerian Senate has begun the screening of Tanko Muhammad as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria. The lawmakers went gone into an executive session and resolved to begin the
The Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Ibrahim Tanko Muhammed has revealed that he was sent back for being too short in height to start school in 1960. In his
The Senate on Wednesday began the screening and confirmation process for Justice Tanko Mohammad as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) at a closed-door session. Senate Leader, Sen. Abdullahi
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
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
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
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 Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has lost a suit it filed challenging the anti-open grazing law in Benue State. A federal high court sitting in Abuja on Thursday dismissed the
