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On assumption of office on August 26, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN) argued that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) be stripped of its powers to prosecute, setting off a chain of reactions. He suggested the […]

More lawyers have weighed in on the revelation by the Nigerian Law School (NLS) Director-General,  Prof Olanrewaju Onadeko (SAN) that some lawyers were caught writing examination for law students. Onadeko spoke on August 25 when he presented the school‘s report […]

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has commenced its 2016 audit of prisons and detention facilities in the country beginning with the prison in Awka. This is contained in a statement by Fatimah Mohammed, the commission’s Chief Information Officer, and […]

A man, Jude Atuanya, who allegedly defrauded a Lagos microfinance bank of N21million with others still at large, has been released on bail on the order of a court. An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court presided over by Mrs O. A. […]

Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Rotimi Akeredolu has emerged the candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the governorship election scheduled for November 26, 2016 in Ondo State. The declaration making Akeredolu the flag bearer of the […]

A group of herdsmen has decided to challenge the legality of “Ekiti State Open Grazing Prohibition Bill” signed into law by Governor Ayodele Fayose on Monday. In an interview with The Guardian yesterday in Oke-Ako, Ikole local council, the herdsmen […]

Magu, EFCC acting chairman, right, with former NBA leaders, led by Augustine Alegeh, second right Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said Nigerian lawyers and judges ”are peopled by very many seasoned, upright members, who have made and are […]

President to insurgents: pick NGO as mediator ‘We’re for talks with Niger Delta militants’ The Federal Government will dialogue with bonafide leaders of Boko Haram to bring back the abducted Chibok girls, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. The “degraded” sect […]

Some Lagos-based lawyers have condemned parading of arrested suspects by the police, saying it is unconstitutional and damaging to the person involved. Suspected cultists They said that often those paraded were innocent and in the event of their being pronounced […]