Law

The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday adjourned a suit by KPMG Professional Services and a partner, Ayodele Othihiwa, against the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRC) till November 19. FRC’s lawyer Mr. Norrison Quakers […]

Lagos — Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday fixed November 18, 2015 to rule on the fundamental human rights case filed by Mr. Buruji Kashamu against the National Drug […]

The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday fixed December 4 for judgment in The Nation’s suit against the Senate and National Assembly. Justice Mohammed Yunusa adjourned after the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Wahab Shittu, adopted and argued […]

ABUJA — More trouble seems to be on the way for the embattled former Chairman of the Presidential Pension Task Force Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, following a renewed bid by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, […]

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) says it will investigate the action of the senior counsel who represented the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Thursday. “We got different accounts […]

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) was silent yesterday on the walk-out during yesterday’s proceedings in the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. A team of lawyers representing Saraki walked […]

Lagos— Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday, barred the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, from disrupting the activities of Stanbic IBTC Holding Plc. Justice Buba issued this order in an […]

THE absence of the judges involved in the trial of former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki and former Head of Service of the Federation, Steve Oronsaye, stalled proceedings in their cases yesterday. Justices Gabriel […]

ABUJA – The Supreme Court, yesterday, adjourned further hearing on the controversy surrounding the sale of oil mining lease on three disputed oil blocks, OML-52, OML-53 and OML-55, sine-die (indefinitely). Though full-blown hearing was originally […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, yesterday, inaugurated a five-man Tribunal of Enquiry to investigate the civil unrest in Ibeju-Lekki area of the state on October 12, which led to the gruesome murder of the […]

A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed November 2, 2015 for ruling on preliminary objections to a rights enforcement suit by one of the two structural engineers who built the collapsed Synagogue Church of […]

AS President Muhammadu Buhari’s avowed war against corruption begins to gather momentum, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)  has thrown its weight behind the growing clamour for a special court  to try corruption cases. […]

The Economic Community of West African States Court of Justice wants its jurisdiction expanded to enable it to adjudicate on cases of crimes committed within the sub-region. The court’s President, Justice Maria Monteiro, disclosed this […]

The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade, says she is determined to ensure that the Lagos judiciary remains a model in Nigeria and Africa. Atilade also said the newly-introduced Bail Information Management System […]

Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday withdrew from the case filed by Saraki against the Code of Conduct Tribunal and the Code of Conduct Bureau. The court therefore ordered […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday formally closed its defence at the Rivers State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the witnesses brought by INEC were […]

A former Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Sunday Ehindero and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr Muiz Banire, have urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to dismiss a suit seeking to re-open investigation into the […]

THE filling of the vacant stool of an Ooni of Ife is not a local affair as it may seem but has national and international ramifications. Considering the attraction of the office of Ooni of […]

SUCH a declaration necessarily dispenses with the need for proof by oral evidence of such a custom and/or tradition. A validly registered Declaration in respect of a recognised chieftaincy is the admissible and subsisting declaration […]

THESE include (a) whether the provision of section 15 was complied with in the appointment; (b) whether the candidate so appointed was qualified or disqualified under section 14; (c) whether the customary law relating to the […]