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Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Professor Chidi Odinkalu, has said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, does not have the powers to prosecute Naira abusers. He berated the anti-graft agency for arresting crossdresser Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju (alias…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has over the years been vociferous, and played the role of the voice of the voiceless and defender of the people’s rights. But, in recent times, the Association is somehow being perceived to be losing that role…

The lawyers to the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has threatened to withdraw from the ongoing terrorism trial, if the Department of State Services (DSS) denies them full access to Kanu, who has been in their…

A senior lawyer in Enugu State, Barr Eli Ugwu has been shot dead. The incident has thrown the entire people of Nsukka into deep agony. The legal practitioner was shot dead in Kogi State shortly after delivering ransom to kidnappers who abducted his cousin. There…

The family of the late Barr. Victor K. Agala has announced the burial arrangements for the legal practitioner who passed away recently at the age of 49. According to a publication by Mr. Vincent O. Agala on behalf of the family, a…

A human rights lawyer Monday Ubani says the country should not rush the creation of state police but make it optional. President Bola Tinubu and governors met on Thursday and considered the creation of state police to help in the fight against insecurity. But…

Unknown gunmen have reportedly killed Barr. Victor Onwubiko, an Imo-based legal practitioner resident in Uturu in Abia state. The incident, according to a source, happened on Saturday night while the lawyer was returning to Abia State University, Uturu where he resides. The…

Jude Oguejiofor, a lawyer based in Nnewi, was assassinated last week by unknown gunmen shortly after being abducted alongside his brother. Chief Oguejiofor was the principal partner at Jude Oguejiofor & Co law firm in Nnewi. He and his brother, a medical doctor,…

A lawyer has collapsed and lost consciousness outside a courthouse in Port Harcourt the Rivers state capital. The legal practitioner who is a native of Ibaa in Emohua LGA of the state identified as Eze Agala slumped just as he stepped outside the…