LEGAL

The Lawyer allegedly assaulted by officials of the Nigeria Custom Service in a video that has now gone viral has given a first-hand explanation of what transpired on that fateful day. The lawyer provided his narration at a meeting with the Nigerian Bar…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari “over the failure to promptly and thoroughly probe allegations of systemic mismanagement of security votes by state governors since 1999, and to ensure the prosecution of those suspected…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the 36 state governors to “immediately redirect public funds budgeted to pay ex-governors undeserved pensions and other retirement benefits, and for ‘security votes’, and to use some of the savings to pay the counterpart…

Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki will chair the maiden Arewa Young Lawyers’ Forum (Arewa YLF) summit scheduled to be held this year in Abuja. Arewa YLF chairman, Mr Olayinka Dauda Jimoh made this known on Friday after leading the group’s executive committee and some other…

The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Owerri (FUTO), Prof. Nnenna Oti, has said the management had gone to court over the rejection of Dr. Isah Ibrahim Pantami’s promotion to the rank as a professor of Cyber Security by the institution. This…

Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, has filed a $1 million suit against Republic of Benin before the Community Court of Justice, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as cost of general damages for each day…

Senate President Ahmed Lawan as well as the Attorney General of the Federal (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, have asked the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, to submit himself for investigation over allegations of assault…

As reactions continue to trail Friday’s judgment of the Supreme Court nullifying President Muhhamadu Buhari”s Executive Order 10 (E10), which directed the implementation of financial autonomy for the states’ judiciary and legislature, senior lawyers have described the judgment as one that was…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over “the failure to publish copy of the agreement the Federal Government recently signed with Twitter, Inc, and the failure to publish the details of the terms and…

The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Delta State, Isaiah Bozimo Esq, has assured staff that the welfare of the ministry of justice will continue to be his priority. The Attorney-General, who was at the Warri Zonal office of the Ministry of Justice,…