GOODWILL MESSAGE FROM AARE OLUMUYIWA AKINBORO, SAN,TO THE MUSLIM LAWYERS’ ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (MULAN), FCT ABUJA BRANCH ON THE OCCASION OF THE 2025 DINNER & AWARD NIGHT It is with great pleasure that I extend my warm felicitations to the […]
HEARTFELT CONGRATULATIONS TO NEW WIGS ON CALL TO BAR CEREMONY Dear New Wigs, my learned friends, As you celebrate this remarkable milestone in your chosen career, I am pleased to convey my heartfelt felicitations to each and every one of […]
By Edith Nwapi Justice Hamza Muazu of the FCT High Court, Maitama, on Thursday stopped the prosecution from calling three subpoenaed witnesses to testify in the ongoing trial of Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele, a former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), is […]
The Federal High Court in Lagos in a landmark judgment has ruled that the Federal Government, the country’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) “have the legal obligations to provide free, compulsory and universal basic education for every […]
The family of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has raised alarm after an Abuja court reportedly declined to issue a Production Warrant that would have allowed him to travel from Sokoto Correctional Facility to the Federal Capital […]
The appearance of two Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) each claiming to have the authority to represent General Hydrocarbons Limited (GHL) yesterday stalled proceedings in the suit filed by the company against the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and others. The […]
A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Tanimu Turaki has asked the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court to intervene in what it sees as a worrying pattern in the allocation of the party’s cases to […]
By Henry Ojelu The decade-long trial of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu finally reached a dramatic climax last week when the Federal High Court, Abuja, convicted and sentenced him to life imprisonment on terrorism charges—closing […]
Abuja — Human rights lawyer Femi Falana SAN has issued a stark warning to the Nigerian government over the continuing wave of unlawful killings, kidnappings, and terror attacks, describing the failure to protect citizens as both a constitutional breach and […]
The East African Court of Justice has dismissed a case challenging TotalEnergies’ massive oil project in Uganda and Tanzania, after civil society groups sought a full trial over the controversial development. Four civil society groups first filed a petition in […]