Disturbed by the bribery allegations rocking the ongoing Election Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Kano, the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association in Kano, Sagir Gezawa, on Wednesday, formally wrote a letter to the Secretary of the EPT, demanding the identities of the lawyers attempting to bribe the judges. The Kano NBA Chairman said, “We ...

  A former Justice of the Supreme Court, Mary Peter-Odili, has debunked an allegation that she is making moves to sway judges on the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) to rule in favour of President Bola Tinubu. An online publisher, Jackson Ude, made the allegation against her, alleging “she meets regularly with Appeal and Supreme ...

Afe Babalola, senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says sitting judges should not preside over election petition tribunals. Babalola spoke on Monday in Ado-Ekiti at an event to mark his 60th anniversary at the bar. The legal luminary said election tribunals should be handled by retired judges and senior advocates, adding that with that, regular court ...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, has stressed the need for judicial officers to be conversant with relevant laws guiding the financial sector, both within and outside the country. Justice Ariwoola, who spoke while declaring open at a three-day workshop on the asset forfeiture regime under the Nigerian Law, noted the crucial roles ...

  “Our politicians are no longer content with hiring Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), they also have their own judges.” – Olusegun Adeniyi, “When Judges Imperil Democracy“, (4 January 2018) When he announced himself to the world on 1 January 1984 as military Head of State and leader of the military coup that had just ...

  The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola on Thursday swore in 39 additional judges to man the election petition tribunals currently sitting across the federation. The CJN, during the ceremony which took place at the Supreme Court, said the judges were found worthy to be appointed as additional members of tribunals that have ...

    President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has said his incoming administration will fight corruption among judges by ensuring that they do not live in squalor. Tinubu spoke while inaugurating the Magistrates’ Court Complex built by Governor Nyesom Wike’s administration and named after a former Chief Judge of the state, Justice Iche Ndu (retd.). The president-elect ...

The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has advised Area Court Judges without law degrees to obtain the requisite qualification within 10 years of employment or risk expulsion from the bench. Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, the Speaker of Nasarawa State House Assembly, made this known at a preliminary in Lafia. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says there are growing worries that the election petition tribunals have yet to commence hearing of disputed polls as it plans to create a “hall of shame” for questionable judges. NLC president Joe Ajaero, at a news conference organised by the Labour and Civil Society Movement Front on Sunday, accused ...

  LANRE ADEWOLE and SUNDAY EJIKE look into precedents to preview the coming judicial war on disputed poll. With disgruntled candidates in the February 25, 2023 Presidential election already before the Court of Appel to contest the win of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, legal fireworks have officially begun over the much-disputed poll. The presidential and ...

The National Assembly, on Monday in Abuja, asked the National Industrial Court, NIC, to allow an out-of-court settlement in a suit instituted against it and three others, challenging the poor payment of judges in the country. The NASS, through its counsel, Mr. Charles Yoila, told Justice Osatohanmwen Obaseki-Osagie that the Assembly is interested in an ...

Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Thursday presented seven brand new Land Cruiser Prado to Judges to make their ”work easy and ensure efficient justice delivery”. Presenting the vehicles to the seven judges, Makinde, represented by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mrs Olubamiwo Adeosun, said it was in fulfilment of the promise ...

Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Mahmoud, on Monday admonished newly appointed judicial officers in the country to shun corrupt practices in the discharge of their adjudicatory duties. Justice Mahmoud gave the charge in his speech at the opening of the 2022 induction course for newly appointed judicial officers of superior courts held at the ...

As political activities continue to increase towards the 2023 general election, the National Judicial Council (NJC) has issued a Policy Direction to guide judges that would be handling political and election related cases. The new regulations according to the body was borne out of concern in “the multiplicity of litigations of political suits at different ...

When Jesus spoke of members of one’s household being his/her main enemies in Matthew 10:36, He must have foreseen the current scenario playing out in the Nigerian Judiciary. Here is the gist. Judges being investigated for misconduct (euphemism for judicial corruption) by the National Judicial Council (NJC) are now devising means of fighting back, to ...

Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, SAN who was a guest at the swearing in of Judges of the Federal High Court and FCT High Court at the Supreme Court of Nigeria on the 20th of April 2022 by His Lordship Hon. Justice Muhammad Tanko, CJN, congratulated the newly appointed Judges; Bala Khalifa-Mohammed Usman, Emmanuel Gakko, Aminu Garba, ...