News - Legal Nigeria

SAN application goes digital as LPPC partners tech firm

Admin 1 3 years ago

By Joseph Jibueze The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) has partnered with a legal-tech company, LawPavilion, to automate the application process for the conferment of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). Chief Justice of Nigeria Ibrahim Muhammad said this […]

News

Court remands church worker for allegedly defiling eight-year-old girl

Admin 1 3 years ago

By Agency Reporter An FCT High Court in Kubwa, on Tuesday, ordered that a 34-year-old church worker, Patrick Ekene, allegedly defiled an eight-year-old girl. The police charged Ekene, who resides in Kubwa, Abuja, with rape. Justice Bello Kawu ordered that the […]

News

Man docked for defrauding fiancée of N1.3m

Admin 1 3 years ago

By Agency Reporter A 38-year-old man, Abdulkareem Isah, was on Tuesday docked in a High Court in Lokoja for allegedly defrauding his former fiancée of N1.3 million. Isah, who resides in Galili in Lokoja Local Government Area is charged with two […]

News

Alleged murder: Dane says he tried resuscitating wife, daughter

Admin 1 3 years ago

By Agency Reporter A Danish man, Peter Nielsen, accused of killing his Nigerian wife and daughter, on Tuesday told a Lagos High Court that he realised that his wife and daughter had died before a doctor arrived. Nielsen said he had […]

News

Lagos High Courts begin Christmas vacation Dec. 24

Admin 1 3 years ago

By Agency Reporter The High Courts in Lagos will be on 2021 Christmas vacation from Dec. 24 to Jan. 3. The Courts will resume sittings on Jan. 4, 2022. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this is according to […]

News

‘Why court ordered closure of Fed Govt’s marriage registries’

Admin 1 3 years ago

By Robert Egbe The National President, Association of Local Government Marriage Registrars, Deji Sokeye, on Tuesday, confirmed that the Federal High Court in Lagos has barred the Federal Government from conducting marriages at its marriage registries nationwide. He said the court […]

News

Promotion of rule of law will engender peace, prosperity, says Solanke

Admin 1 3 years ago

By Emmanuel Shedrach Legal icon and first female Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Folake Solanke has hinged sustainability of peace, security and prosperity in Nigeria on the promotion of rule of law. Solanke, who spoke at the 2021 dinner dance of […]

News

Oromroni: Falana asks police to investigate Kemi Olunloyo’s claim

Admin 1 3 years ago

By Our Reporter Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has asked the police to investigate the claims by social media personality, Kemi Olunloyo, that the late Dowen College schoolboy Sylvester Oromoni Jnr was in the process […]

News

Justice Ilori, a quintessential jurist, by judges, lawyers, others

Admin 1 3 years ago

By ADEBISI ONANUGA Lagos State Judiciary has held a valedictory court session for the late Justice Samuel Omotunde Ilori, who was the ninth Chief Judge of the state. ADEBISI ONANUGA reports Judges, Magistrates, lawyers and other stakeholders in the justice sector converged on Lagos […]

News

Court dismisses 11 of 20 fraud charges against former FCT Minister’s son

Admin 1 3 years ago

By Agency Reporter The Federal High Court Abuja has discharged and acquitted Shamsudeen Bala, son of former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Bala Mohammed on 11 out of 20-count charges preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, […]