With hammer and tongs, the Federal Government is about to criminalise “hate speech.” A new bill to this effect is receiving the attention of the National Assembly. Already, the executive and legislature have closed ranks, […]
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Mrs. Aisha Abubakar has urged investors from Poland to key into the circle of genuine businesses in Nigeria to brighten the relationship between Poland and Nigeria. […]
Falana performs a formidable service by providing such an insightful synthesis of the most important elements of the emerging jurisprudence – both national and international – on socio-economic rights, and highlighting the need for the […]
Established democracies around the world are such because their laws develop with societal change. Every time a significant change occurs, it places a burden of responsibility on the legislature where it has not been proactive…Alas! […]
A federal high court in Lagos has ordered the permanent forfeiture of a $37.5m sky-scrapper on the highbrow Banana Island, Lagos, belonging to Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources, to the federal government. Chuka […]
THE National Assembly failed to strike the right chord with Nigerians when it rejected power devolution in the ongoing process to further amend the 1999 Constitution. This is a huge setback in the quest for […]
The Nigerian Bar Association has paid a befitting glowing tribute to Mrs. Ranti Abosede Daudu who has just passed on. I read the tribute over and over again. Painfully, the NBA did not disclose that […]
The Senate and the House of Representatives have concluded voting on the amendment to aspects of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. Altogether, the two chambers of the National Assembly considered 33 sections of the document slated […]
The national assembly has concluded voting on amendments to the 1999 constitution. While members of the house of representatives voted on Thursday, their colleagues in the senate had their own session on Wednesday. Thirty-three bills […]
…less than two decades after the pronouncement of Sharia law in most part of Northern Nigeria, the advocates and leaders of the Sharia movement have fallen short of their own publicly professed religious standards. Some […]
A court in eastern China has enforced a rule that issues people who haven’t paid of their debts with ringtones made to shame them. The ringtone tells the caller that the person they are dialling […]
KEYSTONE BANK REACTS “In response to the news making the rounds that the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos had made an order directing Keystone Bank Limited to remit the sum of $17m allegedly illegally […]
A Lagos high court has insisted that its order that the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) must mandate the Nigeria Bottling Company (NBC) to include on all bottles of Fanta and […]
A Lagos High Court has dismissed an application filed before it by the Nigeria Bottling Company Plc, NBC, seeking the order of the court to stay execution of its judgement mandating an NBC warning on […]
The Lagos State House of Assembly has begun the amendment of a law that provides for lavish pension benefits to former governors and their deputies, the speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, said Thursday. Speaking to journalists at […]
Carol Ajie, a human rights lawyer, has called on Mr. J.B Daudu, Chairman of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and a former President of the NBA, to institute […]
The senate will be floored in court over its insistence that it must confirm certain appointees before they can assume office, a senior presidency official told TheCable at the weekend. The upper legislative chamber has […]
On Wednesday, July 12, the Supreme Court saved our democracy and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). It did with its ruling in the matter between Ali Modu Sheriff and Ahmed Makarfi, to determine who among […]
I read online your recent article titled “The Rule of Law must prevail”. As a man for whom I have always had great respect being myself an academic, I felt that there were a few […]
The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday approved the appointment of 19 judges for the National Industrial Court of Nigeria. This is contained in a statement signed by Soji Oye, spokesman of the National Judicial […]
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