Lagos State Ministry of Justice, in partnership with Law Pavilion Business Solutions, has inaugurated an e-law platform to ease legal practice and make the state’s laws more available to the public. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), made this known during a press…
In a matter between Tajudeen Adetona & Anor. Vs Agro Traders Ltd & 2 Ors in suit no. AK/229/2019, the defendant’s counsel, Omoniyi Odeyemi, raised the absence of an oath clause in the witness statement on oath of the claimants and urged the court to discountenance the written information on oath of the claimants. He…
The President , Council and Secretariat of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association join the 56 nations of the Commonwealth in mourning the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We pay tribute to Her Majesty’s life of service and steadfast dedication to the peoples of the Commonwealth . Visiting every Commonwealth country bar two, Her Majesty…
The Supreme Court has declared Chukwuma Odii Ifeanyi as the authentic governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ebonyi State for the 2023 elections. The apex court arrived at its decision after setting aside the entire judgment of the Abuja division of the Court Appeal which went in favour of Joseph Obinna Ogba for…
The Federal Executive Council has approved the sum of N2.044 billion for the provision of internal roads and drainages at the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board gas hub in Bayelsa State, Southern Nigeria. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva disclosed this while briefing State House Correspondents at the end of this week’s…
The Nigerian Government and the United States of America have signed an agreement on the Clean Energy Demand Initiative to sustain the government’s energy transition plan. The signing of the agreement was done when the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, Mr John Kerry paid a working visit to Nigeria’s Minister of Environment in Abuja,…
The capital of Cross River State, Calabar, was agog recently, as the Obudu and Obanliku communities in the northern senatorial district rolled out the drums in honour of one of their sons, Justice Emmanuel Akomaye Agim, who was elevated to the Apex Court November 6, 2020, and on August 7, 2022, his kith and kin…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has permitted the Department of State Services (DSS) to detain a former terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu, for 60 more days. Justice Nkeonye Maha gave the permission on Tuesday while granting an ex-parte motion moved by the counsel for the DSS, Ahmed Magaji. Mamu, one of the leading negotiators for…
In preparation for the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has delisted 1.1 million newly registered voters. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye who confirmed this in a statement stated that Nigerians are aware that the cleaning up of the voter register using…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, has reserved judgement on an appeal the detained leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu filed to quash the terrorism and treasonable felony charge the Federal Government preferred against him. Mazi Kanu who is currently facing trial before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, had through his team…