A Professor of Law, Osaretin George Izevbuwa, has strongly criticized Nigeria’s criminal justice system, highlighting that over 52,000 inmates remain incarcerated awaiting trial while institutional failures continue to plague the nation’s correctional facilities. Delivering the 27th inaugural lecture of Igbinedion […]
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has reinforced its strategic alliance with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), and other key regulatory bodies to combat cross-border financial […]
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has nullified the legislative arrest order issued against Professor Smith Jaja, the Vice-Chancellor of PAMO University of Medical Sciences, by the Rivers State House of Assembly. Presiding over the fundamental rights […]
A Lagos State High Court has granted an interim injunction restraining the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from arresting or detaining representatives, executives, dealers, distributors, and business associates of Honda Manufacturing (Nigeria) Limited and Honda Automobile Western Africa Limited. […]
Human rights lawyer and former Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Owerri Branch, Chinedu Agu, has publicly questioned the procedural integrity of court filings submitted by the branch leadership, highlighting a glaring chronological inconsistency involving an October 30 document […]
A United States District Court for the District of Columbia has rejected a legal request by Aaron Greenspan seeking limited discovery from Nigerian President Bola Tinubu and DCI Group in an ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. In its […]
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has ordered the publication of a bench warrant in national newspapers against Walter Ubaka Okeke, a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial aspirant in Anambra State, after years of failing to […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue State has called on Governor Hyacinth Alia’s administration to provide immediate clarification regarding ₦19.18 billion in unspent Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) intervention funds. The main […]
A US federal court has dismissed a multi-billion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against The Wall Street Journal and its publishers over a report concerning an alleged birthday letter addressed to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. […]
A coalition of legal practitioners in Sokoto State has formally invoked the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act to demand a comprehensive public disclosure regarding a controversial multi-billion-naira aircraft transaction and associated state expenditures. The lawyers are pressing state authorities to […]