Six Judiciary correspondents were on Tuesday, detained for over two hours on the order of Justice Chizoba Orji of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sitting at Maitama. Justice Orji insisted that journalists must get permission before they could cover her court. Consequently, she ordered her police orderly to seize a phone…
The Senate leader, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi has defected from the ruling All progressives Congress APC to the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Kebbi State. His special adviser on media and publicity Muhammad Jamil Gulma who confirmed the defection said, the “Senate Leader Dr Yahaya Abdullahi will on Wednesday by 9 am leave Abuja for…
The Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, ECNBA, has published the full list of properly nominated candidates for the Association’s forthcoming National officers election. The list also contains a checklist of campaign materials made available to the Electoral Body by the various candidates pursuant to Part IV(11) and V(7), Second Schedule of the Constitution…
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, has ordered that flags fly at half-mast following the killing of worshippers at St Francis Catholic Church, Owo. Gunmen had stormed the church on Sunday, killing dozens and injuring several others. The incident has since been condemned by Nigerians, including President Muhammadu Buhari and many governors. Akeredolu, who later…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has granted an order of interim injunction restraining the Senate President, the Speaker of the House of Reps, INEC and three others from executing, enforcing or relying on the judgment delivered by Justice Mohammed Liman of a Federal High Court, Kano, on the 3rd of June, 2022. The Appeal…
The Presidency has responded to the claims of a frontline Presidential aspirant and National leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu that without him President Muhammadu Buhari would not have emerged as the president in 2015. Tens of millions of Nigerians voted for President Muhammadu Buhari and that led to his victory in…
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, yesterday, warned that the rising spate of terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and other violent crimes posed existential threat to the survival of the country. The CJN, who spoke at the opening ceremony of a workshop for judicial officers, at the National Judicial Institute, NJI, in Abuja, lamented…
The Young Litigators Committee (YLC) of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Legal Practice (NBA SLP) has announced the second edition of its Young Lawyers Debate. The Young Lawyers Debate is designed as an oral contest of ideas, in which participants evaluate and defend their positions on legal issues of importance. The first edition held…
Tunisia’s judges have decided to suspend work across the country’s courts for a week as means of protest at what they call a “purge” ordered by President Kais Saied who recently sacked scores of their colleagues. The Tunisian judges said on Saturday that they would also take part in a sit-in to protest the decision by President…
A Former Administrator of the National Judicial Institute (NJI) Mrs. Rosaline Bozimo, and former Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Prof Epiphany Azinge (SAN), were among 15 eminent Nigerian citizens from Delta State on the honours roll of Pope Francis in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the church and society. They…