LEGAL NEWS

A rapper, Sikirullahi Olarenwaju Dabiri, better known as Eldee, has been slammed with a N100bn damages demand over his alleged defamatory comments on a businessman, Dr Akintoye Akindele. Akindele is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Duport Midstream Company Limited. In a letter to…

Attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has inaugurated the Governing Board of the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria. The minister who also tasked the newly appointed board members to perform their statutory responsibilities with diligence and patriotism, also…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to “urgently seek the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate allegations of electoral violence and other electoral offences including bribery against any…

The Lagos State Government on Thursday said Adeniran Omodesola Whitney died from Asphyxia and electrocution. Whitney a pupil of Chrisland School in the Opebi, Ikeja area of Lagos died some weeks back with the cause of her demise uncertain But the Attorney-General and Commissioner…

A firm which specialises in providing vehicle lease services to oil companies, Petronella (Nig) Limited has written a petition against Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) Company to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) for failing to supply its vehicles worth N430…

The Federal High Court in Jalingo, Taraba State, recently upturned the judgement of the Supreme Court in the suit filed by Senator Abubakar Sani Danladi in 2021, a move legal stakeholders have decried. In doing so, the trial court set aside its earlier…

A Lagos State High Court will on Monday (today) begin the trial of ASP Drambi Vandi, who allegedly killed a Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem, on Christmas Day. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that Vandi, attached to Ajiwe Police Station in Ajah,…