The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to punish the International Criminal Court for even thinking of charging Israeli leaders with war crimes in Gaza. ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan has sought arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Read more…
The aggrieved enigie (dukes) of Benin Kingdom who are having issues with the palace of Benin Kingdom including instituting a suit in court have said they were not averse to peace but that it must be on the bases of Read more…
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sitting at Zuba, has reserved its judgement on a N500million libel case that a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, institute against a career Ambassador in the Ministry, Lillian Read more…
The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, OON, SAN, has expressed deep concern over the recent conflicting orders emanating from the Federal High Court and the Kano State High Court regarding the stool of the Emir of Kano. Read more…
Chidi Odinkalu, a prominent Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, has taken to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to express his concerns over the recently trending Draft Bill for an Act to Substitute the 1999 Constitution with the 2024 Read more…
Donald Trump was convicted of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 presidential campaign Thursday in a historic trial that saw a former U.S. president face criminal charges for the first time. After deliberating over two days, a New York Read more…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has again ordered the interim forfeiture of the sum of $1.4 million linked to the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. Justice Ayokunle Faji ordered the forfeiture of Read more…
The trial of the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, continued on Tuesday with a former Director of Operations at the apex bank, Ahmed Umar, telling the court that the naira redesign embarked upon by Emefiele Read more…
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has ordered the Police to evict the reinstated Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, from the Emir’s Palace in Kofar Kudu area of Kano metropolis of Kano State. Ruling on an ex-parte motion Read more…
Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu of Kano High Court sitting on Miller Road has restrained the police, the State Security Service (SSS) and Nigerian military from evicting the reinstated Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II. The case was filed by the emir alongside the Read more…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has remanded Mrs Chioma Egodi in the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Suleja over the criminal defamation charges against her. Justice Peter Lifu on Tuesday remanded Egodi after she pleaded not guilty to the two-count Read more…
A Kano State High Court presided over on Monday has issued an interim injunction restraining Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero and four other dethroned emirs of Bichi, Rano, Gaya and Karaye from parading themselves as emirs, pending the hearing and determination Read more…