LEGAL

Bodo community in Rivers State has accused its British Solicitor and Senior Partner, Leigh Day & Co, Mr. Martyn Day, of short-changing over 14,000 beneficiaries in the £55 million compensation paid by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in 2015. The community in…

A Lagos-based lawyer, Tope Alabi has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe and – if found culpable – prosecute Ikeja Electric Plc officials over alleged deliberate illegal disconnection and incorrect billing. Mr. Alabi asserted that despite having a…

The Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL), Dr. Monday Ubani has instituted an action at the Federal High Court, Lagos Judicial Division challenging the directive of the Federal Government through the Secretary of the…

A Port Harcourt based lawyer, Okparaolu Chioma Chris Esq., has instituted an action against the Federal Government for the enforcement of his fundamental rights to physical and mental health. In the originating process filed by the Applicant’s Counsel, The Voice Attorneys and…

The ongoing probe of the Ogun State House of Assembly by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), took a dramatic turn on Friday as the house filed charges against the anti-graft agency and the impeached former Deputy Speaker, Oludare Kadiri. Recall that…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila over “their failure to probe, and to refer to appropriate anti-corruption agencies fresh allegations that N4.1bn…

The Ekiti State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Wale Fapohunda (SAN), said on Thursday that the state government prosecuted 168 cases of rape in courts in 2021. Fapohunda, who said 108 of the cases were still active and ongoing, reiterated the state government’s…

Despite recording 175 rape cases in 2021, Adamawa State was unable to succefully prosecute any of the offenders. According to findings, 158 children between the ages of two and 14 were among those raped in Adamawa State during the period. Monitoring and Evaluation…

Some aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to restrain the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker- and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) from holding the party’s national convention in February. The members are…

An Abuja resident, Mr Johnson Oyewole, has sued the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bello; the Director, Department of Resettlement and Compensation, Mrs Perpetual Ohammah; the chief of Gyadna, Jubril Hassan; and five others for demolishing his apartment in the…