By Chukwudi Ebele Human Rights Lawyer and Social Critic Sir Ifeanyichukwu Ejiofor Esq in his recent article titled ‘WHEN JUSTICE IS HURRIED, LIBERTY IS BURIED: A SOBERING REFLECTION ON PROLONGED DETENTION, COERCED GUILTY PLEAS, AND THE EROSION OF CONSTITUTIONAL SAFEGUARDS Read more…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has ordered the stay of execution of the judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja which on Monday deregistered the African Democratic Congress, ADC, and four other political parties. The controversial judgment which directed the Read more…
The Federal High Court has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister the African Democratic Congress (ADC), the Action Peoples Party (APP), Action Alliance (AA), Accord Party (AP), and Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) as political parties in Nigeria. Read more…
The legal wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has threatened to haul former actor and politician Kenneth Okonkwo before the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC), accusing him of conduct unbecoming of a lawyer following what it described as repeated and Read more…
During a Channels TV’s programme reviewed by PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Okonkwo alleged that Mr Obi and South-east caucus of the NDC demanded N10 million bribe from House of Representatives aspirants in the party to secure tickets for them. The 2027 Read more…
Senator Adolphus Wabara-led Board of Trustees (BoT), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has instituted a suit against Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), demanding recognition of its interim National Working Committee (NWC). The BoT and the PDP, in a fresh suit, sought Read more…
After months of impasse and epic legal battles, the iconic Nestoil Towers has been reopened for use by its owners and their promoters following two successive decisions of the Supreme Court in favour of Neconde Energy Ltd. and Nestoil Ltd., Read more…
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has claimed the Nigerian government admitted that Justice James Omotosho of the Abuja Federal High Court acted without jurisdiction in convicting its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and sentencing him to life imprisonment. IPOB made the Read more…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja refused to entertain the appeal against a judgement of a Federal High Court in Ibadan, which recognised the Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Read more…
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday sentenced to death four of the five terrorists that attacked the Saint Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State. Justice Emeka Nwite handed down the maximum sentence shortly after convicting them in the Read more…
The United States Congress has asked the country’s Secretary of State to engage the Nigerian government on the trial, conviction and imprisonment of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. The development followed a resolution passed by Read more…
The attention of Nestoil Limited, Neconde Energy Ltd. and other interested stakeholders has been drawn to the Press Release issued by Mr. Abubakar Sulu-Gambari, SAN, purporting to act as Receiver/Manager over Nestoil Limited and certain assets of Neconde Energy Limited. Read more…