Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has called on the state to embrace the lifting of the state of emergency and the return of democratic governance in the state, as a moment of fresh beginning. Why I Didn’t Challenge Emergency Read more…
Category: Judiciary
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has again been reminded by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) that it is illegal for him to use his office to prevent Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central) from returning to the Senate after the expiration Read more…
Dangote Refinery and Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers of Nigeria are in a war of words over N1.5 trillion fuel subsidy claims. The $20 billion 650,000-barrel-per-day refinery in a statement on Wednesday accused DAPPMAN of requesting N1.5 trillion as subsidies Read more…
The Office of the Clerk to the National Assembly has said it lacks the authority to facilitate the resumption of Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. This was contained in a statement issued by the Director of Information in the office, Read more…
A First-Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) in London has dismissed a case filed by one Tali Shani, which challenged the attempt by human rights lawyer Chief Mike Ozekhome to register a property allegedly gifted to him by the former Minister of Read more…
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted an application filed by the Department of State Services, DSS, to expedite proceedings in the trial of the suspected mastermind of the August 26, 2011 bombing of the United Nations building Read more…
The Federal Government will, on Thursday, arraign the two top leaders of the Ansaru terrorist group, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated network, at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The two commanders are Mahmud Muhammed Usman, aka Abu Bara’a/Abbas Mukhtar, and his deputy, Read more…
The National Assembly Management has formally declined Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s request to resume legislative duties after serving her six-month suspension over alleged misconduct. The National Assembly bureaucracy stated that Akpoti-Uduaghan’s six-month suspension remained in force, pending the outcome of the Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in the November 8, Anambra State guber polls has dismissed with a wave of the hand the court order which allegedly restraining him from parading himself as LP candidate. Dr Moghalu Read more…
Challenges transfer of LG funds case to Abuja THE government of Osun State has filed a suit at the Supreme Court of Nigeria against the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) over the alleged unlawful withholding of statutory allocations meant for Read more…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has criticised the Nigerian judiciary, saying it has been “deeply compromised” and that corruption among judges has turned courts into “a court of corruption rather than a court of justice.” In his new book, Nigeria: Past Read more…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has passed a damming verdict on the nation’s judiciary citing deep rooted corruption and political interference as factors eroding public trust. In his new book, Nigeria: Past and Future, the ex-president uncovered what he calls the Read more…