President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday depart Abuja for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to participate in the 36th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU).
The theme of the AU Summit is ‘‘Acceleration of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)…
Human rights lawyer, Dr Monday Ubani, has criticized President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to reintroduce the old N200 notes into the Nigerian economy, describing it as an overruling of the Supreme Court order.
In a national broadcast on Thursday, the president ordered the Central…
Lagos-based lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) on Thursday said President Muhammadu Buhari’s broadcast to the nation on the Naira redesign policy is a contempt of Court as he lacks the power to overrule the Supreme Court.
In a statement…
The Lagos State Judiciary has clarified that its officials did not reject old Naira notes, but rather, they insisted on electronic payments for courts bills due to large amount old Naira in its coffers which had been rejected by banks.
In a statement…
President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to the Defence Research and Development Bureau Act, 2022, passed by the National Assembly.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Babajide Omoworare, made available…
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to recirculate the old N200 bank notes, which will remain legal tender with the newly re-designed N200, N500 and N1,000 notes until April 10, 2023.
The President disclosed this in a national…
The Supreme Court has adjourned the suit filed by state governments to challenge the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
The Supreme Court adjourned the case till Wednesday, February 22 for a hearing of the consolidated suits by 10…
Ten days to the February 25 presidential and National Assembly election, cash for the mobilisation of ad-hoc staff for the polls is yet to be made available to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Daily Trust reports.
Nigerians have been battling with the…
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic and Violence Court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced a 51-year-old pastor, Nduka Anyanwu, to life imprisonment for defiling and impregnating two teenage sisters.
Justice Abiola Soladoye handed down the sentence after finding Anyanwu guilty of the offence.
Anyanwu…
The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Bwari, on Tuesday, declined a request by the police to issue a bench warrant for the arrest of an official of the Supreme Court, Mrs Ogunseye Adebiyi.
The police claimed that Adebiyi forged a judgment of…