The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola has urged lawyers to embrace honesty, transparency, and integrity in order to keep the legal profession in high esteem. Justice Ariwoola gave the charge on Monday in Abuja while declaring open the 2023 Nigerian Bar Association- Section on Legal Practice, (NBA-SLP)...
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A constitutional lawyer, Dr Kayode Ajulo, has urged President Bola Tinubu to align the salaries of judges in Nigeria with that of Senators. Ajulo said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja while sympathising with the Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice Adeyeye who was directly affected during...
Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta says his cabinet will be made up of youths, middle-aged and the elderly. Oborevwori made this known on Sunday at a Thanksgiving Service in honour of his Deputy, Chief Monday Onyeme, at the St. John’s Anglican Church, Ibabu, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of...
The Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate Mr Chijioke Edoga, on Sunday closed his case against the victory of Gov. Peter Mbah in the March 18 election before the election tribunal sitting in Enugu. Edeoga closed his case after calling 30 witnesses and one witness subpoena from Independent National Electoral...
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Bwari has abruptly closed a case filed by the Nigerian Police against the National Chairman, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Edozie Njoku, and another over alleged conspiracy to alter a judgment of the Supreme Court delivered by Justice...
In Haiti, for the first time in its history, a change.org petition created in 2022 by Haitian politician Werley Nortreus, currently demands the Haitian government establish a constitutional reform by adding new amendments before the next general elections, according to multiple sources. According to the demand, either the...
Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has recalled with nostalgia and deep praises to God and people the July 16th, 2022 Governorship election during which he defeated former Governor Adegboyega Oyetola. In a message to mark the landmark victory , Governor Adeleke saluted the steadfastness of Osun voters who...
‘Peter Obi failed to prove 2023 presidential election was rigged,’ lawyers tell Tribunal in final submission The legal team of President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima led by Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, has submitted its final written address against the petition of the presidential candidate of the...
Mr Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate, Labour Party in the 2023 elections has dismissed media reports that he is looking forward to run for office in the 2027 presidential elections. The presidential candidate also denied commenting on appointees of the Federal Government. Obi, who is also a former governor of...
Mr Julius Abure, National Chairman, Labour Party, says the party has strategically positioned itself to win the 2024 governorship election in Edo state. Abure said this when Mr Stephen Osemwegie, a governorship aspirant of the party, paid an official visit to the party Secretariat in Abuja. He said that...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, July 10, 2023 secured the conviction and sentencing of one Danladi Mohammed before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri to one-year imprisonment. Mohammed was convicted following...
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano on Friday ordered the release of a former Kano State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Malam Idris Wada-Saleh, from detention pending the determination of the originating motion. Wada-Saleh was on July 4, arraigned by the Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission...
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday, discharged Sen. Rochas Okorocha from corruption charges filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ((EFCC). Justice Yusuf Halilu freed the former Imo governor after dismissing the charges filed by the anti-graft agency for being...
By OLA MUDOPE, Akure – Four suspects facing trial at the Federal High Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, who were apprehended during the 2023 UTME for registration and examination infractions, are to remain in detention following their failure to secure bail. The suspects are to spend two more...
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has reserved judgment in the petition by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM). APM is seeking the nullification of Tinubu’s election on the grounds that his running mate, Kashim Shettma, was not qualified to contest having allegedly engaged in double nomination. After parties adopted...
A Federal Capital Territory High Court has dismissed the case against former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The court described the EFCC’s charges of fraud and abuse of office as an abuse of judicial process. The presiding judge,...
A High Court has restrained the Kano State Government from going ahead with the planned demolition of houses located on the BUK Road in Gwale Local Government of the state. The court granted the exparte motion application dated July 4, moved by Ibrahim Adamu, Counsel to the plaintiffs on...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the Labour Party (LP) has no ground to call for the sack of its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, over the outcome of the 2023 general election. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi stated this when he spoke with...
Gov. Ahmad Aliyu of Sokoto state has inaugurated six-member Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the sales, auction and allocations of government assets by the immediate past administration of former Gov. Aminu Tambuwal. The commission has retired Justice Mu’azu Bindiga a former acting Chief Judge of Gombe state as Chairman...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, restrained Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi and the acting Inspector-General (I-G) of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, from arresting or detaining Alhaji Murtala Ajaka, the Social Democratic Party (SDP)’s candidate for the Nov. 11 governorship election in the state. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a...