LEGAL

The Socio-Economic Right and Accountability Project (SERAP) has countered a claim by the Muhammadu Buhari-led government that it wouldn’t dare to interfere with the activities of the judiciary. SERAP, in its reaction to Buhari’s claim, accused the federal government of regular disobedience…

Pelumi Olajengbesi, one of the lawyers of self-determination campaigner, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, on Sunday withdrew from agitator’s legal team. Olajengbesi, the Managing Partner, Law Corridor, in a terse statement on Sunday on his official Facebook page, announced his withdrawal from futher…

A renowned economist and banker, Mr. Alex Otti, has sued the Abia State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Eze Chikamnayo over alleged libellous publication, following a barrage of “malicious” verbal attacks by the government spokesman. Otti and other opposition politicians have…

Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN) has blamed lawyers for the increase in corruption within the judiciary. Speaking in an interview with Punch Newspapers, the law professor also blamed judges who cover up their corrupt colleagues for the rot…

The public has constantly misunderstood the implication of the appointment of a next-of-kin to legal documents. People think once a person is appointed as next-of-kin; it automatically gives him or her the right to inherit whatever property the appointer has upon his…

The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Lagos State, Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo has stated that the enforcement of the judgement by Shangisha Landlord Associations on Wednesday was carried out by unknown bailiffs. The AG said that the Sheriffs of the High Court…

The tenures of democratically elected governors of the 36 states of Nigeria have since the inception of democracy been administered unhindered, except in cases of staggered elections ocassioned by court decisions. The tenure of these governors runs without being truncated by the…

Minister for Works and Housing and former Lagos State Governor, His Excellency, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has been warned to refrain from inaugurating new Council members of the Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON) come Tuesday, 21/12/2021 whilst a Motion on Notice for…

The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, alongside states Attorney Generals as well as other critical stakeholders in the justice sector have called for uniformity in the minimum standard for the implementation of the Administration…

The Federal Ministry of Justice spent over N113.2 million in breach of the various provisions of the Nigeria’s financial regulations in 2019, the latest audit report of the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (OAuGF) has disclosed. The suspicious expenditures, according…