The annual ritual of the opening of the judicial year at Nigeria’s Supreme Court is an occasion for pomp, ceremony, and celebration. It usually marks the admission of a new set of lawyers into the sequined ranks of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SANs). This year, 68 made the cut....
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Abuja, Nigeria, September 14, 2026: Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Joash Amupitan, is to deliver the keynote address at the 10th Annual Conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), scheduled to hold in Lagos. Chairman of the 2026 conference planning committee and Deputy...
The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has cancelled the operating licence NICON Insurance Limited, that is the certificate of Registration of NICON Insurance Co.Ltd RIC – 049 and appointed a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chukwuma -.Machukwu Ume as Receiver/Provisional Liquidator of the company. The cancellation of the insurance company...
The trial of former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, was on Thursday adjourned until October after the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja suspended proceedings to honour his lead counsel, former Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Kanu Godwin Agabi (SAN), who turned 80 on Wednesday. Justice Sylvanus...
The trial of former Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, took another significant turn on Wednesday as an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), told the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja that the former minister neither initiated nor signed the procurement documents relating...
The year 1993 changed Nigeria’s judiciary. Over a period of a mere five months, the military that year contrived to overthrow the government twice. First, in June, Ibrahim Babangida, the army General who was Nigeria’s military ruler at the time, nullified an election his regime reorganised to determine who would succeed...
*Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday granted the request for accelerated hearing in the trial of six persons accused of plotting to overthrow the government of President Bola Tinubu. The court scheduled April 29, April 30, May 4, and May 5 for the commencement...
For politician and online publisher, Omoyele Sowore, the past two weeks have seen him suffer what could easily pass as the two biggest setbacks since beginning his activism career in 1989, when he was admitted into the University of Lagos. Early warning signs of the “setbacks” began on March...
*Prosecution tenders autopsy report confirming victims died of gunshot wounds A witness of the Department of State Services (DSS), in the ongoing trial of four men accused of being behind the June 5, 2022 attack on the St. Francs Xavier Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State on Tuesday identified one...
Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Mali, has been arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), in connection with alleged terrorism financing. Malami, a senior advocaate of Nigeria (SAN), served as Nigeria’s chief law officer from November 2015 to May 2023 under...
Twenty-three days after its transmission by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the upper chamber of Nigeria’s National Assembly, the Senate, held public hearings on 18 December 2025 to consider the Legal Practitioners Bill. At this pace, the bill could become law well before the middle of 2026. The journey to this bill has been somewhat...
Detained self-acclaimed leader of the proscribed separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has fired all members of his legal team. Kanu is facing trial before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court Abuja over his alleged involvement in terrorism activities. The trial began in October...
In 1981, Chief Gani Fawehinmi was already 16 years at the Nigerian Bar and one of its brightest stars. He had also become a pioneer in the enterprise of legal publishing and a breakout litigator. One decade earlier, Gani had served as national publicity secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Among lawyers of...
Prominent rights lawyer and one-time Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof Chidi Odinkalu, has challenged claims by former General-Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Aare Olumuyiwa Akinboro, SAN, criticizing the recent requirement for newly cleared Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) to undergo security screening by...
***as lady admits lying, withdraws petition, apologises Former Minister of Special Duties, Alhaji Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, has opened up to clarify the rape allegation by a lady, Hadiza Baffa, saying this “has become necessary both for the record and for posterity to set the facts straight, as silence...
Nigeria’s immediate past High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Isola has described Professor Yusuf Ali SAN as a blessing to every community he finds himself. He stated this in a goodwill message to Ali who will be turbanned on Friday, 11th April, 2025, as the 1st...