LEGAL NEWS

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “promptly set up a presidential panel of enquiry to thoroughly, impartially, effectively and transparently investigate spending on all social safety-nets and poverty alleviation programmes and projects executed between 2015 and…

The Special Counsel to the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Aloy Ejimakor, has revealed that the medical condition of the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is worsening. Ejimakor, who wrote a letter to the European Union in Nigeria on Wednesday, urged the…

The leadership tussle in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has taken a new dimension as its National Chairman, Mr. Victor Oye, has written the chief justice of Nigeria over alleged forgery of Supreme Court document by a factional leader of APGA,…

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to arrest the sponsors of attacks on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) offices. Recently, INEC offices have been attacked by gunmen and arsonists who destroy sensitive materials, documents as well…

A Bauchi based Legal Practitioner, Mr. Abbas Mu’azu, has petitioned the Director General of the Department of State Security (DSS), Mr. Yusuf Magaji Bichi, against a popular Kaduna State based Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Musa Yusuf Asadussunnah, and an Activist in Katsina State.…

The Code of Conduct Bureau has invited the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State, Siminialayi Fubara, to an interview at its headquarters on November 7, 2022, as part of its investigation of an alleged breach of the Code…

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to “direct the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, and the acting Accountant General of the Federation, Sylva Okolieaboh to immediately reverse the apparently illegal deductions…

On October 9, 2022, the Federal Government proposed over N22.44bn, for the feeding of inmates across the country. It was gathered that the money was meant for the supply of catering materials and foodstuffs for the Nigeria Correctional Service in 2023. Specifically, the Correctional…