By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The Lagos State Judiciary will on Sept. 25 simultaneously hold its 2023/2024 new legal year service at the Cathedral Church of Christ, Marina and Lagos Central Mosque. The Acting Chief Registrar, Mr Tajudeen Elias, disclosed this in a statement issued to...
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The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Lateef Fagbemi, says the Judiciary is critical to the fight against corruption in the country. He made the remark on Monday in Abuja at the annual reunion and award of the members of the Class of ’85’ of the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has assured of his administration’s commitment to conclude a thorough review of the salaries and allowances of judicial officers in the country. Tinubu said this on Thursday when he received the leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)...
One cannot be envious of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), as the 180 days that the current laws give the Presidential Election Tribunal to render verdict are about to expire. The concern, however, is that the high hopes are progressively giving way to perceived uncertainties that the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, and President Bola Tinubu are engaging in bitter words over alleged plot to undermine the country’s judiciary. Alhaji Atiku had accused the current administration of the governing APC...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The All Progressive Congress (APC) has dismissed allegation by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, that it is plotting to intimidate members of the judiciary towards unduly influencing the outcome of pending cases before the court. The APC National Publicity...
Mr John Mayaki, a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo, has called on the judiciary and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to brace up against any blackmail being orchestrated by the opposition at the ongoing Presidential Elections Petition Tribunal. Mayaki, in a statement on Tuesday...
Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Rev. Henry Ndukuba, has urged all election petition tribunals not to disappoint God or man. Ndukuba made the call on Saturday at the on-going 12th Synod of the Diocese of Abuja. “Once again this is the time to test the resilience...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has called for the revamping of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to regain its eminent and dominant leadership role in Nigeria and Africa. The party’s Presidential Candidate in the 2023 general election gave the advice at a programme “welcome/reception of PDP governors-elect and send forth...
The PDP has restated its confidence in the ability of the judiciary to discharge its duty dispassionately based on the evidence at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on the 2023 general elections. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba, said this at a news conference on Tuesday...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called on the judiciary to discharge its constitutional duties in the pending petitions before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal as an independent and impartial arbiter. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, at a news conference on Sunday in Abuja, urged the judiciary...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has asked the judiciary to deepen the democratic process in the country by ensuring that election petitions before them are transparently handled. Governor Ortom made the appeal on Sunday night, April 30th, 2023 in Abuja while speaking at a...
Former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, has admonished politicians in the country to allow the judiciary perform its constitutional functions, saying society is dynamic. Jonathan gave the admonition during the book presentation/reception of a week-long activities marking the retirement of the Bayelsa Chief Judge, Justice Kate Abiri, in Yenagoa, the...
Worried like every other Nigerian over the precarious state of the Nation, the Human & Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has condemned in strong terms what it tagged “Judicial Rascality” besetting the country in recent time. The Chairman of HEDA, Mr. Olanrewaju Suraju, made this known in a...
Rep. Onofiok Luke, the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary, has urged judicial officers to exercise more caution in issuing ex-parte, conflicting and questionable orders. Luke said this in a statement in Abuja, in the wake of a search warrant allegedly obtained to search the residence of Justice...