The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Court of Appeal to continue hearing on the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede, challenging the decision of a […]
Justice Muslim Hassan of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday rejected an ex parte application by Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, seeking immediate release from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday engraved his name on the stones of history by assenting to eight different bills passed by the National Assembly into law. Buhari His special adviser on National Assembly matters (senate), […]
While still grappling with our economy which remains stuck in the doldrums, our hard earned democracy, which seems to be the next target of deterioration, is by all indications heading for the precipice, if the […]
I read on page 5 of The PUNCH Newspaper of November 14, 2016 about a young man of 29 years who was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by an Osogbo Magistrate Court on November 14, […]
A Non-Governmental Organisation, the Committee for the Defence of National Interests (CODNI), has warned against alleged secret moves by the National Assembly to hurriedly amend Act establishing the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) before the […]
The National Legal Adviser of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Dr. Muiz Banire (SAN), who is being probed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for giving an alleged N500,000 bribe to a judge, has […]
Bello Mahmud, registrar-general of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), on Thursday said the the commission had taken steps to eliminate bottlenecks associated with registering a business. Speaking at the second presidential economic communication workshop in […]
A Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Thursday slammed a one million naira bail on a 33-year-old man, Roland Olise, for alleged defilement of a six-year-old girl in a church in Lagos. Olise, whose address […]
ABUJA – The National Judicial Council, NJC, on Thursday, succumbed to pressure from the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, even as it agreed that all the judges being investigated over allegations of corruption should step down […]
The “actusreus,” or alleged deeds of crime of some judges that were recently arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services included: Wiring of $900,000 abroad in just two years; buying properties abroad, and […]
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Mahmud Mohammed has said that the “the failure on the part of the Executive Arm of Government to act upon recommendations by the National Judicial Council (NJC) cannot be […]
Nigeria is at a cross roads in our march to nationhood. We are faced with critical questions whose resolution will determine our ability to take our place in the comity of civilised nations. These questions […]
The two Justices of the Supreme Court, Sylva Ngwuta and Inyang Okoro, who were among some judiciary officers recently arrested by the Department of State Services on corruption allegations, have voluntarily withdrawn from further participating […]
The Judges, who were alleged to have indulged themselves in acts of corruption in the execution of their official duties, are telling their own stories about how the cookie crumbled and the falcon can no […]
A lengthy ownership tussle triggered by a 2011 takeover of one of Nigeria’s top pension administrators, has sparked fresh allegations of fraud and forgery. First Guarantee Pension Limited was taken over by the regulator, the […]
SHOULD the judges under investigation for alleged corruption be suspended? This is the question which has sparked a huge row among lawyers and Civil Society Organisations. Under investigation by the Department of State Services (DSS) […]
The National Judicial Council is set to bar media reportage of allegations of misconduct levelled against judges and employees of the judiciary. This is contained in the National Judicial Policy to be launched by the […]
A few days after Justice Inyang Okoro accused the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, of seeking to manipulate a court judgement, another judge has made similar allegations. Justice Sylvester Ungwuta, also of the Supreme Court, […]
A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje, has filed a N50bn suit against President Muhammadu Buhari, the Department of State Services and its Director-General, Lawal Daura, along with others for allegedly violating the rights of judges […]
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