About 200 private legal practitioners have volunteered to assist Abba Yusuf, governor of Kano, in winning his election appeal case at the supreme court. The lawyers under the aegis of “Abba Kabir Yusuf Volunteer Lawyers Forum” are drawn from the Read more…
By Chidi Odinkalu Nigeria’s Supreme Court held a special session on 27 November 2023 to formally usher in a new legal year. It provide an occasion for a retrospective on the performance of Nigeria’s judiciary by its leaders in a Read more…
A former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof Chidi Odinkalu has described the Supreme Court’s inability to provide a documented judgment on Peter Obi’s presidential appeal as a “Supreme scandal and height of judicial malefaction”. According to Read more…
A human rights activist, Sesugh Akume, has petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria/Chairman National Judicial Council (NJC), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, to probe six judicial officers for what he described as gross misconduct. The petition which was received and acknowledged by Read more…
A former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, told Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja, how the inability of a defunct commercial bank (Diamond Bank) to disburse huge sums of Read more…
Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, yesterday, directed the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) to provide infrastructure in areas earmarked for building of justices residential houses. The minister gave the directive after inspecting the sites for the construction of Read more…
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sitting at Maitama, on Tuesday, commenced full-blown hearing on the case the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Read more…
The Supreme Court issued a hearing notice dated 25th October 2023, notifying the Labour Party (LP) and its candidate in the Presidential Election, Mr Peter Obi, that judgment would be delivered in their appeal to the Supreme Court in Appeal Read more…
By Ezeakukwu Emmanuel Nsoedo Chief Oseloka Osuigwe, upon going through the formality of being inducted as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, took his guests to celebration in style. The guests, mainly from Anambra state and Abuja, went through various cuisines Read more…
Hon. Chief Egwuoyibo Okoye could not find the right words to do justice to how he feels about the selection and induction of his friend and colleague from the A N Anyamene Chambers in Enugu. Egwuoyibo says that “Barrister Mbadugha Read more…
By Ezeakukwu Emmanuel Nsoedo (PhD) The President of the Committee of Friends (COF), Nnewi, extends a congratulatory message to Chief Oseloka G Osuigwe (Diken’muta Nnewi) on his well-deserved elevation to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). While interacting Read more…
In a post on X handle, Odinkalu suggested that campaigners demanding better treatment of judges are actually not interested in the greater good of society.” He rhetorically asked why judges work so hard to appoint their children, wives and mistresses Read more…