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A high court sitting in Apo, Justice A.A Halilu of Court 53, has declared the report of the Nigeria Bar…
A 38-year-old security guard, Francis Samaila was on Monday, docked in an Upper Area Court Kubwa, FCT, for alleged negligent…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Atiku Abubakar on Friday tendered what they called academic records and personal particulars of…
Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Femi Falana has said the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL)…
The Action Alliance, AA, has filed a motion on notice seeking to jail the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Resident…
The Presiding Judge, Awka Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court, Hon. Justice John Targema has dismissed the case filed…
In respect of the approval of law faculties in Nigeria , the body in charge of such approval, Council of…
Hon. Justice Ikechi Nweneka of the Lagos Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court has struck out the case filed…
The Osun State Election Petitions Tribunal which will hear matters emanating from the March 18 House Assembly elections in the…
An Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada, Abuja, has dissolved a 15-year-old marriage between a public servant, Okpanachi Yahaya and his…
The Supreme Court has affirmed the jurisdiction of the Investments and Securities Tribunal (IST) over capital market disputes. In a…
The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the winding up of Anyiam Osigwe Group Limited following its inability to…
Plateau High Court sitting in Jos on Monday reinstated Abok Ayuba as Speaker, Plateau House of Assembly. Ayuba was impeached…
Before the commencement of the 2023 elections, Governor Wike came up with Executive Orders aimed at stopping the opposition political…
Hon. Justice Osat Obaseki-Osaghae of the Abuja Judicial division of the National Industrial Court has declared the employment termination of…
A Magistrates’ court in Owerri, Imo State, on Thursday, remanded the immediate past deputy governor of the state, Gerald Irona,…
The Akure branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). has threatened to order its members to boycott court sittings over…
The National Judicial Council NJC, under the chairmanship of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Alfa Belgore, suspended…
In reaction to the latest controversy regarding 25% electoral requirement in FCT, an eminent professor of law, Itse Sagay (SAN),…
In a significant (pre-election matter) decision, the Supreme Court has quashed the earlier judgments of the Calabar Judicial Divisions of…
The Court of Appeal has confirmed constituting tribunals for Governorship, National and State Assembly election matters for Kwara State. This…
A Lagos State High Court has slammed 10 million Naira damages against Access Bank Plc, for wrongfully publishing Ms Bukola…
Lawan vs. Machina: “This Court Has Powers To Overrule Itself (In) Any Decision Not In Accordance With Justice,” – Supreme…
Two plaintiffs: Mr Chikwe Nkemnacho and Mr Kenneth Azubuike Nkemnacho, on behalf of Nigerians in the Diaspora, had filed a…
The 23-year-old marriage between Mr Isiaka Odeyemi and Mrs Feyisola Odeyemi has been dissolved by an Ado-Ekiti customary court over…
A chief magistrate’s court in Ogba, Lagos, has sentenced Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, Managing Director of Fidelity Bank, to six weeks in…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced a 51-year-old landlord, Saheed Ojomu, to five-year imprisonment for allowing his…
Telecommunication consumers under the aegis of the National Association of Telecoms Subscribers have dragged the Federal Government to court over…
It has become (among a number of young lawyers in Nigeria) that those seen as Senior lawyers (by the young…
