Legal Nigeria

+ AN Oyo State High Court sitting in Iyaganku, Ibadan, yesterday declared the review of the 1957 Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration and other Related Chieftaincies Laws in Ibadanland by the Oyo State Government as unconstitutional, illegal, null and void and of […]

Justice must be doneAn Abeokuta Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Isabo on Wednesday remanded a 79-year-old man, Olatunji Komolafe, in prison custody over alleged N9 million fraud.The accused, whose address was not disclosed, is facing a three-count charge of fraud, […]

Yinusa MuhammadHenry OjeluThe Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC on Wednesday arraigned a Federal High Court Judge, Justice Yinusa Muhammad for corruption.Also arraigned alongside Yinusa is one Esther Agbo, a staff of Rickey Tarfa chambers.In the five-count charge brought before […]

 Federal High Court in Lagos has nullified the appointment of an interim board for telephone firm 9Mobile. Justice Ibrahim Buba made the order based on an application by Spectrum Wireless Communication Ltd, which invested $35million in 2009 in Emerging Markets […]

Chief Abdul-Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi was a Nigerian author, publisher, philanthropist, social critic, human and civil rights lawyer and politician. Early Life  Gani Fawehinmi was born on April 22, 1938 in Ondo State. His father, Chief Saheed Tugbobo Fawehinmi, the Seriki […]

PrisonPaul IyoghojieA jobless man and ex-convict,Valentine Thomas, 30, has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate Court for allegedly eating food and drinking wines with his two girl friends at Victoria Crown Palace Hotel ,VCP, Victoria Island, Lagos without money in […]

   The Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration), Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Prof Carol Arinze-Umobi, has advocated that wife rape be treated as a serious crime.Prof Arinze-Umobi made the call while delivering the 39th inaugural lecture of UNIZIK titled: “The wife and […]