The Supreme Court has scheduled February 10, 2025, to hear two separate suits filed by the All Progressives Congress, challenging the validity of the local government elections conducted in Rivers State in 2024. The apex court also scheduled the same Read more…
Category: Judiciary
Lawyers to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, have tackled the federal government over his continuous detention. In a press statement, “Mazi Nnamdi Kanu And The Emasculation Of Justice”, dated January 16, 2025, and Read more…
The legal team of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has raised an alarm over the non-resumption of the trial of the Biafra agitator.The lawyers accused the Federal Government and the judiciary of deliberately delaying the Read more…
The Chairman of First Bank Holdings, Chief Femi Otedola, has revealed what the Publisher of Thisday Newspaper, Nduka Obaigbena, did with the $230 million loan he obtained from First Bank Limited. Otedola, sources said, made the revelation after meeting with Read more…
Oyo State government has filed a fresh suit against ex-Queen Naomi Silekunola, the chairman of an Ibadan-based radio station, Alhaji Oriyomi Hazmat and the principal, Islamic High School, Bashorun, Ibadan, Mr Abdulahi Fasasi, at the State High Court. Nigerian Tribune Read more…
British SAS operatives were given a “golden pass allowing them to get away with murder” in Afghanistan, a former UK Special Forces officer has told a government inquest. Other witnesses described routine executions of unarmed civilians by British forces. The officer’s statement Read more…
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Wednesday dismissed an application filed by the former Governor of the Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, challenging its jurisdiction to hear the $4.5 billion and ₦2.8 billion fraud case brought against him by the Economic Read more…
The executive board of trustees of the Centre for Justice, Mercy, and Reconciliation (CJMR), has appealed to the Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, to embrace other means in dealing with the fallout of Ibadan stampede involving with Prophetess Read more…
The lead counsel for Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has rejected the Nigerian government’s move to set a date for the resumption of Kanu’s trial. Ejimakor based his rejection on the fact that Justice Binta Read more…
Twenty-five days after she was arrested and detained for allegedly threatening the life of President Bola Tinubu’s son, Seyi, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, granted bail to a social media activist, Ms. Olamide Thomas. Thomas, who was Read more…
Disengaged staff members of the Central Bank of Nigeria, who were laid off in a mass redundancy last year, have taken the apex bank to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria in Abuja. The aggrieved former staff members, in an Read more…
The Saudi Arabian government has released three Nigerian women who were arrested for possession of cocaine. The development was disclosed in a statement by the spokesman of Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kimiebi Ebienfa, on Sunday in Abuja. Ebienfa said Read more…