Counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has insisted that he voluntarily withdrew from representing the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, in December 2023, maintaining that reports suggesting he was only recently dismissed distort the facts. Read more…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has vacated the judgment that directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and four other political parties accused of failing to meet constitutional requirements. Home National Columns Read more…
By Uzo Ugwunze Human Rights Lawyer and Social Critic Sir Ifeanyichukwu Ejiofor Esq in his recent article titled ‘ANOTHER GLOBAL LAUREL FROM ACROSS THE NIGER — A GROWING CHORUS OF INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR AN UNRELENTING JOURNEY IN HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY’ Read more…
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN), sitting in Lagos, has ordered the immediate reinstatement of 70 soldiers of the Nigerian Army who were convicted by courts-martial in 2014 but later granted presidential pardon by former President Muhammadu Buhari. The Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor An Nnewi-based businessman, Mr. Ejike Mbamalu, proprietor of Nnewi Auto Spare Parts, has approached the Federal High Court, Court 2, sitting in Awka, seeking protection over what he described as repeated harassment and alleged infringement of his Read more…
By Uzo Ugwunze Human Rights Lawyer and Social Critic Sir Ifeanyichukwu Ejiofor Esq has congratulated the newly elected president of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Mrs Oyinkansola Badejo-Okunsanya SAN urging every member of the bar to overlook election related grievances. Read more…
Court of Appeal, Abuja, has overturned the Federal High Court judgment that nullified portions of the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) electoral guidelines for the 2027 general election, affirming the electoral body’s constitutional authority to regulate the conduct of elections. In a Read more…
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday granted bail to the leader of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, in the sum of N2 billion over his ongoing trial for alleged money laundering involving $2.33 million. Justice I. Read more…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), yezterday, elected Mrs. Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, as its first female president.A notable female legal practitioner, Dame Priscilla Olabori Kuye, had once served as the first female president of the NBA between 1991 and 1992. GeographicReference Kuye, Read more…
An Anambra State High Court sitting in Awka has sentenced a popular native doctor, Onyebuchi Okocha, popularly known as “Onyeze Jesus,” to six years’ imprisonment and a N20m fine after finding him guilty under the Anambra Homeland Security Law. Justice Read more…
The charges arrived barely a week after the Nigerian military, in collaboration with other security forces, rescued 44 schoolchildren and teachers abducted by kidnappers in three schools in Yawota and Ahoro-Esinele in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State. The Read more…
Hope of the Tanimu Turaki-led faction of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) participation in the 2027 general election has been dashed, following the dismissal of the suit seeking to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise and publish Read more…