Presidential tussle: 7 Supreme Court Justices to determine Tinubu, Atiku, Obi’s fate
The Supreme Court will on Thursday, settle the legal dispute that has been trailing the presidential election that was held in the country on...
Court Of Appeal President Transfers All 2023 Election Petition Cases From The 36 States...
The president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem has ordered that all pending petitions from the 36 states of the federation regarding the...
Court discharges, acquits Rivers varsity don accused of rape
A Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt has discharged and Acquitted a lecturer with the Rivers State University, Prof. David Ogbonna, who was standing...
Nasarawa Poly Rector drags journalist to court for defamation, seeks N100m compensation
The Rector of Isa Mustapha Agwai Polytechnic, Lafia, Dr. Justina Anjiode Kotso, has dragged the Nasarawa State Correspondent of Universal Reporters, Rabiu Omaku, to...
Osun dismisses lawyer’s threat over judges unpaid allowances
Osun State Government has told an Ibadan-based lawyer, Mr. Mutalubi Adebayo, SAN, to drop his threat to drag Governor Ademola Adeleke and the government...
NAPTIP lauds judiciary as pharmacist bags life sentence
The Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Dr Fatima Waziri-Azi, on Tuesday, commended the judiciary for what she...
13-hour PEPT judgment raises more dust, exposes petitions’ loopholes
The verdict of the Presidential Elections Petitions Tribunal delivered poignant lessons to the litigants, lawyers and politicians, writes ADEBAYO FOLORUNSHO-FRANCIS
The judgment of the Presidential Elections...
Court to decide Talolorun’s defamation case today
Two traditional religion devotees; Abdulazeez Adegbola aka Talolorun and one Chief Ademola Olawoore, Oluwo of Tede who were both standing trial of alleged defamation...
38-year-old artisan arraigned for attacking woman with cutlass
A 38-year-old artisan, Odun Ogedengbe, was on Thursday arraigned in an Okitipupa Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State for allegedly attacking a woman with...
BREAKING: It’s bereft of justice, Atiku rejects tribunal judgement
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Thursday rejected the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal judgement that affirmed the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the...
Labourer in court for alleged theft of iron rods worth N30,000
The Police on Thursday, arraigned a 32-year-old labourer, Usman Ibrahim in a Kado Grade 1 Area Court Abuja, for allegedly stealing iron rods from...
Journalists barred as Tribunal delivers judgement in Abia
Journalists were barred from covering the proceedings as the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Umuahia is set to deliver judgment in the...
Tribunal begins judgment on Obi, LP’s petition against Tinubu
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has begun the delivery of judgment in the petition by Peter Obi and the Labour Party challenging the victory...
PEPC: Judge begins with fourth petition
Justice Haruna Tsammani began with the fourth petition (CA/PEPC/04/2023) between the Allied Peoples Movement vs the Independent National Electoral Commission and the 4 others.
Listed...
Gombe Assembly suspends screening of commissioner-nominees over NLC strike
Gombe State House of Assembly on Tuesday, postponed screening of Commissioner-nominees, sent by Governor Muhammadu Yahaya.
It was reported that the screening exercise was initially...
How EFCC officials assaulted Nigerian under probe – Lawyer
Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, on Thursday, narrated how overzealous operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at the anti-graft agency’s headquarters...
Justice ministry has no budgetary allocation to settle rising judgment debts – PS
The Ministry of Justice has not received any budgetary allocation for the settlement of judgment debts, the Solicitor-General of the Federation, Mrs Beatrice Jeddy-Agba...
NYSC Member-Minister: Deji Adeyanju, other activists sue Musawa
Human rights activist and Convener of Concerned Nigerians, Deji Adeyanju, has filed a lawsuit against the Minister of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, Hannatu...
S3x Toy Scandal: A-Court upholds N50m damages against Senator Abbo
The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal has affirmed the N50 million damages that was awarded against Senator Elisha Abbo for assaulting a...
Court remands man for beating, pulling woman’s dreadlocks in Ogun
A man, Oluwaseun Adebayo, was on Tuesday, remanded at the Sagamu Correctional Centre for allegedly beating and pulling off the dreadlocks of one Esther...