LEGAL

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over “the failure to review and rescind his reported approval for security agencies to access people’s personal details via NIN-SIM linkage without due process of law.” President Buhari…

The Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other units of the Nigerian Police Force on Friday ordered the Chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. General Mohammed Buba Marwa (retd.), to produce the…

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and leading pay television service provider, MultiChoice Nigeria, have agreed to an amicable resolution of their pending tax disputes which led to a series of lawsuits. Both parties announced the agreement in a joint statement yesterday in…

Female lawyers in the country yesterday called on all women in the country to ensure that they vote against current lawmakers at the National Assembly, who voted against the passage of the gender bill, last week. The women lawyers under the aegis of…

Ebonyi People’s Democratic Party has petitioned the National Judicial Council over alleged abuse of office,  use of judicial powers to confer unfair advantage on a party to frustrate the judgement of the Federal High Court fixed for delivery on the 8th of…

A former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, has written the current occupant of the position, Mr. Abubakar Malami, absolving himself of any complicity in a case instituted by the Federal Government against American Bank,…

Attorney-General Abubakar Malami has prayed the Federal High Court to grant approval for immediate extradition of police chief Abba Kyari to the United States. Mr Kyari was indicted by the FBI last year on allegations of conniving with international fraudster Ramon ‘Hushpuppi’ Abbas…

A retired justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, has supported the call for increment in retirement age of judges. Recall that at the book launch upon retirement of the jurist (Rhodes-Vivour) from the Supreme Court last year,…

The Head of the Civil Service(HoS) of the Federation, Folasade Yemi-Esan, has been sued and charged with contempt of court, following her refusal to allow some directors participate in the ongoing permanent secretary selection processes in the Federal Civil Service as ordered…

The Federal High Court in Abuja has been urged to stop the National Assembly (NASS) from proceeding with the bill seeking to raise the minimum qualification for those aspiring to contest the offices of the President, governors, among others. The request is…