Legal Nigeria

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has advised the leadership of the Senate to immediately withdraw the summon it issued for Professor Itse Sagay, Chairman Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption to appear before the Senate committee on ethics, privileges and public […]

MORE cash believed to be part of the London-Paris Club loan refund has been found by  the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).The US$86,546,526.65 was remitted into the account of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF).The account is said to have […]

Ikorodu magistrate court sitting in Ijede  sentenced her husband, Olayinka, to nine years, six months imprisonment for impersonation.Soyinka (34) was arraigned on a five count charge bordering on falsely presenting himself as a lawyer, stealing and forging of court documents […]

The Department of Security Service (DSS) recently released a seven-page letter which sheds more light on the corruption allegations against Ibrahim Magu, the Acting-Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).The letter appeared to have been written in response […]

Citing a Department of State Services (DSS) report, the Senate has for the second time in three months rejected Ibrahim Magu’s nomination as Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman. It did not consider Magu’s antecedents as anti-graft czar in […]

Justice Okoi Ikpi-Itam, the Chief Judge of Cross River is dead.Aged 63 years, Ikpi-Itam died in the early hours of Saturday after a brief illness.According to the wife of the deceased, Chief Magistrate Helen Itam, her husband took ill on […]

  A member of the House of Representatives from Akwa Ibom State, Nse Bassey Ekpeyong, is facing a nine-count charge of forgery.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is prosecuting Ekpeyong for presenting to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) […]