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Oluwaseun Oladapo, 27, who killed human rights lawyer, Kunle Fadipe, was sentenced to death on Friday.Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, sentenced Oladapo to death by hanging for killing the lawyer.The judge found the convicted person guilty […]

The Federal High Court in Lagos Thursday fixed March 2 for hearing in a suit by human rights lawyer Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) seeking to vacate the order freezing his firm’s account.Justice Abdulazeez Anka ordered that a hearing notice be issued to […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered 17 exotic vehicles in a warehouse belonging to a former Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko Inde.The warehouse on Nnamdi Azikwe Street, Kaduna, has been sealed off.Two […]

A Federal high court sitting in Lagos south west Nigeria has restrained Senator Stella Ada Oduah and Sea Petroleum and Gas Company Limited and his directors from making any withdrawal whatsoever from the account of the company and three other Limited […]

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has nominated nine lawyers, including six Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), for appointment as Justices of the Supreme Court at the instance of Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen. However, some lawyers […]

In Owerri High Court has awarded N20 million as damage against the police for assaulting an Owerri lawyer, Chukwuemeka Amaghiro, last year.In his judgment, Justice K.A. Orjiako said the respondents were found guilty of gross violation of the applicant’s right.Amaghiro […]

  Lawyer, activist and businessman Audu Maikori was freed from security custody yesterday on bail following his arrest on Friday for allegedly spreading false information on the Southern Kaduna killings.Maikori was picked up in Lagos and flown to Abuja preparatory […]

A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Victor Akande, on Saturday said that any further litigation would ruin the chances of the party in 2019 General Elections as many followers would have left.Akande, representing Ojo Constituency I at […]