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Reports coming in say that the Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman of the National Judicial Commission, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has summoned the chief judges of six states over the conflicting decisions all given by courts of coordinate jurisdiction. The chief judges summoned are those of Rivers, Kebbi, Cross River, Anambra, Jigawa, and Imo states. […]
Continue ReadingThe Kebbi State High Court, presided over by Justice Nusirat Umar has ordered Uche Secondus to return to his position as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In granting the application in a suit brought before her in Birinin Kebbi, the state capital in case KB/AC/M. 170/2021, Justice Umar said she was […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement issued on Wednesday by the Director of Press and Information of the Nigerian Supreme Court, Mr. Festus Akande, the Supreme Court and the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC), have denied a list being circulated online as names of lawyers penned for the award of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) rank for 2021, […]
Continue ReadingAttorneys General of the 36 states of Nigeria have instituted a court action against the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation over the government’s failure to remit recovered funds into the federal account. In the suit filed at the Nigerian Supreme Court registry and marked as SC/CV/395/2021, the 36 states Attorneys General are […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the appointment of Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf as the acting Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council. The Director of Information for the National Judicial Council (NJC), Soji Oye, disclosed this in a press statement he issued on […]
Continue ReadingA JSS 1 student who claims to have been picked out during her school’s assembly on May 22 and given 20 lashes over an “indecent hairstyle” on the order of the principal who also suspended her, has filed a lawsuit against Ekiti state government. Gift Agenoisa said to be a student of Immaculate Secondary School, Ado-Ekiti, claimed her suspension […]
Continue ReadingMr. Bolaji Agoro, one of the top lawyers from Oyo State, shortlisted to be appointed as High Court Judges, is dead. Sources said, the Ighoho-born Agoro performed well at the screening for appointment of new judges and was waiting for his confirmation when he died. Mr. Bolaji Agoro was said to have slumped on Sunday, […]
Continue ReadingThe suit seeking fundamental rights filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, Nigeria, by the 12 detained associates of the Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, against the Department of State Services (DSS) and its Director-General, Yusuf Bichi, has been fixed for hearing on Tuesday, July 20, 2021, which is Sallah day. One […]
Continue ReadingBritish High Commission in Nigeria has extended consular assistance to the detained leader of the Nigerian-proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. In the same vein and as we have reported before, a law firm in London, Bindmans, seeks Kanu’s consent to take up his case. There were reports on Thursday that one of […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP) was on Thursday July 15, barred by a Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) from arresting the Elegushi of Ikate Kingdom in Lagos Oba Shaheed Ademola Elegushi and two others. Justice Gafar Safari gave the ruling following a lawsuit filed by the monarch and two members of […]
Continue ReadingA Magistrate court sitting in Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria, has declined bail application for the 49 Yoruba Nation agitators arrested and detained by the Lagos State Police Command. The defendants were arrested at Ojota, Lagos on July 3, 2021, during a mega rally in support of the actualization of Yoruba Nation and have since been in […]
Continue ReadingA Customary Court sitting at Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State has dissolved a 7-year-old marriage between Ademola Adeparusi and his wife, Yinka Adeparusi. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), both parties had earlier given their evidence on March 8, 2021 and the matter was later adjourned for judgment. Their marriage was dissolved on grounds of […]
Continue ReadingECOWAS Court of Justice sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, West Africa, has ordered the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to pay Nigerian journalist, Agba Jalingo N30 million. The compensation to Jalingo, a Nigerian citizen, is for his arrest and chaining to a deep freezer for about 34 days, while in detention in Cross River State without being […]
Continue ReadingYoruba Youths Leader (YYL) and rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, has approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, for the release of his aides arrested by operatives of Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) at his house in the Soka area of Ibadan on July 1. Chief Yomi Aliyu SAN, counsel to the Yoruba […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Law School has released the results of its 2021 final bar examinations and, of the 5,770 students who sat for the exams, 1,326 candidates failed. The results of the exams, which are a prerequisite for being called to the Nigerian Bar, were released on Tuesday, July 6. The Council of Legal Education statistics showed that a total […]
Continue ReadingFounder and Senior Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Pastor Daniel Olukoya, has been ordered by a United States District court in Maryland to pay $7,320 within 30 days to Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters. Pastor Olukoya had filed a lawsuit against Sowore in 2018 after a 2017 report of […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and rights activist, Funmi Falana, has filed a formal request for a coroner inquest into the killing of a salesgirl during Saturday’s mega rally of Yoruba Nation agitators at the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park, Ojota, Lagos. The teenage girl, whose name, is given as Jumoke Oyeleke, was found drenched in her blood and […]
Continue ReadingAn appellate court in New York, United States, has ruled that Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Guiliani can no longer practice law in New York. The court suspended Giuliani’s law license after a panel concluded he made ‘demonstrably false’ statements regarding the 2020 election which Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden. ‘[W]e conclude that there is […]
Continue ReadingFormer President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chief Babatunde Olusola Benson, is dead. Chief Benson, who held the traditional title of Asiwaju of Ikorodu, died on Thursday, nine days to his 89th birthday on July 4, 2021. His death was announced by Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Oba Kabir Shotobi, and Ikorodu Branch of the NBA. […]
Continue ReadingECOWAS Court of Justice sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, on Tuesday restrained the Federal Government and its agents from prosecuting or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate or arrest people for using Twitter. In its ruling on an interlocutory application, the court restrained the Muhammadu Buhari-led government from, “unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to […]
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