The Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday approved the establishment of National Flood Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan for Nigeria. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Hajia Sadiya Faruk, stated this in Abuja while briefing newsmen on the approval. She explained that the plan was going to be a multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder one, with clearly spelt-out roles…
Call for bids to tender for the 24th Commonwealth Law Conference 2025 The Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) is inviting legal associations and any other interested agencies of the Commonwealth to submit a bid if they wish to assist the CLA with hosting the 24th Commonwealth Law Conference in 2025. A key date in the legal…
Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has narrated how an official of the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Ikot Ekpene, Enobong Phillip Eyoren, assaulted and tortured him while in the facility. Inibehe disclosed this today in a series of tweet via his official twitter account, and the tweets reads: I did not offend Enobong Phillip Eyoren, also…
Tukur Mamu, a Nigerian publisher involved in the negotiation that led to the release of some of the hostages abducted by terrorists in the March 2022 attack on Abuja to Kaduna train was on Wednesday arrested by operatives of Department of State Services at Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano. He was arrested on arrival from…
A civil society organisation (CSO), Network of University Legal Aid Institutions (NULAI- Nigeria) has commenced monitoring of cases in Magistrate Courts in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. NULAI- Nigeria said it is worried that many people are still in detention as a result of manual collation of court cases. Speaking at the launch of…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Tuesday, sentenced a 26-year-old lawyer, Yetunde Sulaimon, to five years imprisonment, for drug trafficking. Justice Daniel Osiagor handed down the sentence to the convict, who studied law from one of the Benin Republic universities, after she pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and unlawful export of exported…
Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu has said the Federal Government is considering an upward review of the salary of tertiary institutions’ lecturers to 23.5 per cent. The minister said salaries of professors would also be reviewed by 35 per cent. Adamu disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja when he presented the position paper of…
Human rights activist and lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Assembly and Controller General of Prisons before a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, for failing to provide monitoring devices, close circuit television, CCTV, and other instruments of restraint at the Kuje Prison, Abuja, which was attacked by insurgents…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has granted bail to the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, in the sum of ₦300 million with two sureties in like sum. Justice Daniel Osiagor on Tuesday granted bail following no objections from the EFCC. It was earlier reported that the Speaker…
Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State, has sworn in Justice Hapsat Abdurrahman as the Acting Chief Judge of the state. Justice Hapsat being the most senior judge in the state succeeded Justice Nathan Musa who retired last week. Speaking at the occasion, Fintiri expressed delight in the fact that he is the first governor…