Less than one week after the aggrieved minority shareholders of Seplat Energy PLC filed a notice of discontinuance at the Federal High Court in Lagos seeking to withdraw their suit against the company and its management, they have also filed Read more…
The attempt by governorship candidates of two political parties in Enugu state, Action Democratic Party (ADP) and Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) to stop the inauguration of the Governor-elect and Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Mbah, as the Read more…
The Presidential Election Petition Court on Tuesday gave the pre-hearing report on the ongoing petition challenging the outcome of the 2023 presidential election.https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-2023028789149162&output=html&h=174&slotname=5559997686&adk=768292802&adf=1476382867&pi=t.ma~as.5559997686&w=696&fwrn=4&lmt=1684881982&rafmt=11&format=696×174&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenigerialawyer.com%2Ftribunal-consolidates-atiku-obi-apms-petitions%2F&wgl=1&dt=1684882384503&bpp=34&bdt=2290&idt=682&shv=r20230518&mjsv=m202305220101&ptt=9&saldr=aa&abxe=1&cookie=ID%3Dd23e430cd68db516-2263e08f69dc0086%3AT%3D1682035222%3ART%3D1682035222%3AS%3DALNI_MZIFOvzExIobffrv1ixx02ZCMv7bg&gpic=UID%3D00000c06b6ffdb94%3AT%3D1682035222%3ART%3D1684881627%3AS%3DALNI_MYRTiWoMcWEz86N9YupwV4qRrEgkQ&pdopt=1&correlator=7939721207440&frm=20&pv=2&ga_vid=390727257.1675211171&ga_sid=1684882386&ga_hid=1875939824&ga_fc=1&rplot=4&u_tz=60&u_his=22&u_h=768&u_w=1366&u_ah=728&u_aw=1366&u_cd=24&u_sd=1&adx=141&ady=1245&biw=1349&bih=615&scr_x=0&scr_y=0&eid=44759837%2C44759927%2C44759876%2C31074469%2C31074812%2C44788441%2C44792646&oid=2&pvsid=3063237397185882&tmod=567562585&nvt=1&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fthenigerialawyer.com%2F&fc=896&brdim=-8%2C-8%2C-8%2C-8%2C1366%2C0%2C1382%2C744%2C1366%2C615&vis=1&rsz=%7C%7CoeEbr%7C&abl=CS&pfx=0&fu=128&bc=31&ifi=1&uci=a!1&btvi=1&fsb=1&xpc=6sIQlg91oO&p=https%3A//thenigerialawyer.com&dtd=1504 The court also presented the trial schedule on the same day.https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-2023028789149162&output=html&h=250&slotname=5559997686&adk=47724073&adf=1026109716&pi=t.ma~as.5559997686&w=300&lmt=1684881982&format=300×250&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenigerialawyer.com%2Ftribunal-consolidates-atiku-obi-apms-petitions%2F&wgl=1&dt=1684882388573&bpp=4&bdt=6361&idt=5&shv=r20230518&mjsv=m202305220101&ptt=9&saldr=aa&abxe=1&cookie=ID%3Dd23e430cd68db516-2263e08f69dc0086%3AT%3D1682035222%3ART%3D1682035222%3AS%3DALNI_MZIFOvzExIobffrv1ixx02ZCMv7bg&gpic=UID%3D00000c06b6ffdb94%3AT%3D1682035222%3ART%3D1684881627%3AS%3DALNI_MYRTiWoMcWEz86N9YupwV4qRrEgkQ&pdopt=1&prev_fmts=696×174%2C0x0%2C728x90%2C468x60&nras=1&correlator=7939721207440&frm=20&pv=1&ga_vid=390727257.1675211171&ga_sid=1684882386&ga_hid=1875939824&ga_fc=1&u_tz=60&u_his=22&u_h=768&u_w=1366&u_ah=728&u_aw=1366&u_cd=24&u_sd=1&adx=141&ady=1564&biw=1349&bih=615&scr_x=0&scr_y=0&eid=44759837%2C44759927%2C44759876%2C31074469%2C31074812%2C44788441%2C44792646&oid=2&psts=ABHeCvjOm53XvzEG1lfMFX2A5QcwoZzZVwiQG2GUgOZVQN2sXtle8x0HXAsy9S2WFp-Rp-yJpP50Ihit1sWvWuL9YF4&pvsid=3063237397185882&tmod=567562585&nvt=1&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fthenigerialawyer.com%2F&fc=896&brdim=-8%2C-8%2C-8%2C-8%2C1366%2C0%2C1382%2C744%2C1366%2C615&vis=1&rsz=%7C%7CleEbr%7C&abl=CS&pfx=0&fu=0&bc=31&ifi=6&uci=a!6&btvi=3&fsb=1&xpc=hr9gy9qoiI&p=https%3A//thenigerialawyer.com&dtd=15 The chairman of the five-man panel Read more…
A foremost human rights group based in Onitsha, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has traced the many killings in Imo State to the controversial judgement of the Supreme Court, which installed Senator Hope Uzodinma Read more…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has denied asking for seven weeks to produce 50 witnesses for his petition at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. He said this yesterday in a statement by the Obi-Datti Media Read more…
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, on Monday, implored judges across the federation to shun all forms of bias and do justice in all cases before them, saying it was the only way to restore confidence in Read more…
Ahead of today’s ruling on the application for live transmission of the proceedings of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, the Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party and the All Progressives Congress have disagreed over the need for the hearing to be Read more…
Russia’s Investigative Committee has charged in absentia a prosecutor and a judge with the International Criminal Court (ICC) for issuing an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin. Both have been placed on the country’s wanted list. In a statement on Read more…
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last presidential election, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, has faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s) defence of winner of the February 25 presidential election, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Atiku, who lamented that Read more…
Seun Kuti, the embattled Afrobeat singer and son of Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti is being remanded at the State Criminal, Investigations and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos on the orders of Yaba Chief Magistrate Court for assaulting a police Read more…
The factional National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) Lamidi Apapa on Friday sat at the back of the court during the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. Also present when the tribunal resumed on Friday was the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Read more…
The judgment that emanated from the Federal High Court, sitting in Kano State, coram, Honourable Justice M.N Yunusa, on the 18th day of May 2023 came in as one of the biggest shockers of this political dispensation. I had personally Read more…