Go Beyond Chidinma’s Arrest, Get To Root Of The Matter, Ataga’s Family Urges Police
The family of Super TV CEO, late Michael Usifo Ataga, has issued a statement calling for an in-depth investigation of the murder of Ataga and urged the police to go beyond the arrest of the suspect to get to the bottom of the case. In a statement entitled ‘Libelous Publications In Respect of Murder Of Michael Usifo Ataga: Demand For...
NBA Moves To Streamline Remuneration, Income Of Lawyers
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has set up a committee to streamline the professional charges of lawyers and ensure that earnings trickle down to junior lawyers who work in the chambers of seniors, with a view to increasing their earning capacity. This was made known in a statement signed on Monday by NBA President, Olumide Akpata, and sent to all...
After Nnamdi Kanu’s Arrest, Canadian Minister Says Malami A Disgrace To Rule Of Law
The Minister of Justice and Solicitor-General of the Government of Alberta, Canada, Kelechi Madu, has slammed the Nigerian Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Abubakar Malami, over the re-arrest of the self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Madu, in a post on his LinkedIn page, said if reports that Kanu was abducted from Kenya were true,...
Autonomy: Abia Assembly Passes Law On Fund Management Between Legislature, Judiciary
Following the need to put Abia State at the same pedestal with what is obtainable at the federal level and, in response to the national clamour for the independence of both the Legislative and Judiciary Arms of Government at both the Federal and State levels pursuant to achieving full autonomy for them, Abia State House of Assembly at plenary...
Kano Elders Beg Court To Make Process Of Igbo Exit From Nigeria Faster
A Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to compel the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives to hasten the exit of the South-Eastern region out of Nigeria before concluding on-going amendment to the country’s constitution. The request for court order to compel hastening of South East exit from Nigeria formed one of the three prayers...
Court Rejects Application Seeking To Stop Abba Kyari’s Arrest, Extradition
The Federal High Court in Abuja, Thursday, refused to grant an ex parte application to restrain the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) from arresting and extraditing suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari. Justice Ahmed Mohammed rejected the application filed by the Incorporated Trustees of Northern Peace Foundation. The foundation, through its legal...
DSS Lawyer Tells Court How Robbers Stole Case File On Igboho’s Aides
The Counsel for the Department of State Service (DSS), Idowu Awo, has told the Federal High Court that the case file relating to the Fundamental Human Rights Enforcement application filed by the aides to Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, was stolen by armed robbers. Mr Awo on Wednesday told Justice Obiora Egwuatu that his colleague who was bringing...
FCT Minister Tells Court That Yar’Adua’s Daughter, Zainab, Forged Abuja Land Documents
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Muhammad Bello, has told an Abuja High Court that Zainab, the daughter of former President Umaru Yar’Adua, forged several documents to lay claim to a disputed plot of land in Abuja. The minister alleged, yesterday, that there was nothing to show that the former President’s daughter ever applied for land in the FCT...
BREAKING: Kanu Pleads Not Guilty To FG’s Amended Charge
Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has pleaded not guilty to the seven-count amended charge the Federal Government preferred against him. Kanu, who was docked before trial Justice Binta Nyako, said he was innocent of all the allegations FG levelled against him, after the charge was read to him in the open court. His re-arraingment came...
Deal With Lawyers Who Help Clients To Delay Justice, Buhari Tells Judges
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, maintained that delay in the dispensation of justice, as well as the rising number of cases pending in various courts across the federation, have remained a subject of grave concern to his administration. President Buhari, while declaring the 2021 All Nigeria Judges’ Conference of the Superior Courts, open in Abuja, said there was a need...
