Legal Nigeria

Adama Barrow and Yahya Jammeh  The military operation was suspended to allow a final diplomatic push to convince Jammeh, who has ruled the former British colony since seizing power in a 1994 coup, to leave the country. “We have suspended […]

The Nigeria police yesterday raided the head office of an online medium, Premium Times in Abuja, and arrested the newspaper’s publisher, Dapo Olorunyomi, alongside the judiciary correspondent, Evelyn Okakwu.Plain-clothes officers conducted a search at the office shortly after 5:00p.m. yesterday […]

Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday agreed to hear the pending applications by former Minister of Aviation Chief Femi Fani-Kayode and former Minister of State for Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission […]

Charles Oputa (Charly Boy) aka Area Fada was one of the discussants at the 13th Chief Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture / Symposium (FAWEHINMIISM) held on Sunday, 15th Jan. 2017, organized by the NBA Ikeja Branch at the Lagos Airport Hotel, […]

Lagos StGuardian Newspaper ppaper te House of Assembly.  Photo credit : lagoshouseofassembly.gov.ng It is commendable that in a bid to curb the rising wave of kidnappings in the state, the Lagos State House of Assembly has sent a bill against […]

Pastor Enoch Adeboye’s exit as General Overseer (G.O) of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Nigeria, shook the country. Barely 48 hours after his action, the government suspended the Corporate Governance Code, which forced him to step down. The […]

  The National Industrial Court on Monday adopted the terms of reinstatement of Francis Johnson, a sacked worker of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Justice Edith Agbakoba in her judgment also ordered NNPC to offer Johnson a new contract. Agbakoba’s […]