An Abuja-based legal practitioner, Mr Victor Opatola has sued the Federal Government and National Assembly over alleged illegal appointment of Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Mr Ola Olukoyede. Also joined in the suit are the Attorney-General of the Federation and Olukoyede, as 3rd and 4th defendants. When the matter was called on Tuesday ...

  An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, the Police Service Commission and four others to pay one Peace Robert, a housewife and a mother of two, the sum of N200m as damages for her unlawful arrest and detention. The presiding judge, Justice Ntong ...

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria has issued an order of interim injunction restraining members of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and their affiliates from proceeding with their planned strike scheduled to begin November 14. The president of the court, Justice Benedict Kanyip, gave the order Friday while ruling on ...

Kannywood actress Hadiza Aliyu Gabon has filed a defamation suit at a Magistrate Court in Kaduna against a civil servant named Bala Musa who claimed the actress rejected his marriage proposal. Recall that in June 2022, Mr Musa dragged Hadiza to court, saying that he had been in a relationship with the actress and she ...

Former Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Awka Branch, Amaka Ezeno, said sexual harassment, violence and patriarchy, are some of the reasons female lawyers abandon active legal practice. Ezeno made the assertion at the 3rd Memorial Colloquium in honour of the late senior Lawyer, Chief Cyprian Anah. The colloquium organised by the Anah Law Practice in ...

An Idaho woman is suing her one-time fertility doctor, saying he secretly used his own sperm to inseminate her 34 years ago — the latest in a string of such cases brought as at-home DNA sampling enables people to learn more about their ancestry. Sharon Hayes, 67, of Hauser, Idaho, said in the lawsuit that ...

Sir Walter Raleigh, a poet and a soldier, wrote in the 15th century in “The Soul’s Errand”; ‘Go, tell the Court it glows and shines like rotten wood’. It may not necessarily be an abuse but it denotes the rate of injustice prevailing over the court. At that time, the court could no longer meet ...

  I am sure a lot of you have seen the news that Nigeria recently won an important case in the UK courts against P&ID. So what happened? Summary of the case This scandal began in the late 2000s when the administration of then-President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua planned to address Nigeria’s energy supply crisis by ...

Embattled Pastor of the I Reign Christian Ministry, Daniel Oluwafeyiropo, charged with rape of his assistant and one other lady, closed his defence on Friday in Lagos. Oluwafeyiropo is facing trial on a two-count charge bordering on raping two ladies, at an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court.. The defendant was alleged to have ...

Reality TV star, Kim Kardashian showed up for civic duty on Thursday, October 19. The 42-year-old reality star was seen in Van Nuys, California at the Van Nuys Courthouse, where she served her jury duty. Kardashian is a potential juror in a murder case involving gang violence, according to reports by TMZ. In the court ...

The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) has stressed the importance of establishing an International Anti-Corruption Court to serve as a viable means of reducing corruption in Nigeria’s public sector as well as combating illicit financial flow globally. HEDA which stated its position during an anti-corruption radio programme, PUBLIC CONSCIENCE, produced by the Progressive Impact ...

    A video is currently making the rounds on social media, in which two lawyers close to assaulting each other inside a court room. The two lawyers engaged in a war of words and nearly came to blows in a customary court in Obukpa, Nsukka, Enugu State. In the video which has been shared ...

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, on Tuesday stated that the proposed International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC) would enable the Nigerian government to tackle high-profile cases, powerful individuals and recover stolen assets and property abroad. He asserted that Nigeria had been grappling with the debilitating effects of corruption for decades, ...

  Prior to last week’s series of judgments by the Governorship Election Petition Tribunals (GEPT) across the country, the political mood of the country was anything but pensive. It was a moment of great expectation. The ordinary voters who trooped out to vote for their preferred candidates but had different candidates declared as winners, expected ...

The legal teams of President Bola Tinubu and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, will resume a legal battle over the President’s Chicago academic records in a United States court on Monday. A US District Judge, Nancy Maldonado, had on Thursday agreed to stay an order directing Chicago State University to ...