Legal Nigeria

Asapokhai is new executive secretaryMinister suspends controversial lawThe FRC: Its powers, limitationsThe Financial Reporting Council (FRC), formerly the Nigerian Accounting Standards Board (NASB), was established in 1982 as a private sector initiative closely associated with the Institute of Chartered Accountants […]

The Federal High Court leadership has redeployed 11 judges including – Justice Mohammed Liman in Port Harcourt and Justice Okon Abang in Abuja divisions.A circular addressed to all judges of the court, announced that Justice Liman had been moved to […]

Magu jets out to London over ex-minister’s case•Five bank chiefs may face trialWho owns this sprawling estate in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State? The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) suspects it belongs to former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.It […]

A Federal High Court in Lagos friday ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sum of $153,310,000, which a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, allegedly siphoned from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and stashed in three banks […]

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria sitting in Lagos has ordered the reinstatement of two sacked lecturers of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State.The lecturers – Dr. Janet Titilayo Bamgbose and Akeem Adesina Bamigbade – both of the […]

The Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday okayed death penalty for offenders as it passed the Anti-kidnapping Bill into law.Tagged “A bill for a law to provide for the prohibition of the act of kidnapping and for other connected purposes”, […]

2016 can be described as an eventful year in the history of the Judiciary. From the arraignment of high profile persons, a contentious Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) election and arrest of some judicial officers to the appointment of an acting […]