The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has faulted the composition of the National Judicial Council (NJC), which is the body responsible for disciplining erring judicial officers in the country. NBA, which is the umbrella body of legal practitioners in the country faulted the current system that made it mandatory that the Council must be headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria …

A Kano State High Court presided over Justice Usman Mallam Na’Abba, which had previously affirmed the suspension of Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje as National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has overturned its decision. This vacation of the order came after Haladu Gwanjo and Laminu Sani Barguma, who claimed to be the Chairman and Secretary of the APC in Ganduje …

Justice Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore, who retired from the Court of Appeal on 18th April 2023, is dead. He was 70 years old. Belgore retired when he clocked 70. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Kwara State Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq expressed his condolences. The statement read: “Belgore, who was until his recent retirement the presiding justice of the Ilorin division …

Popular cross-dresser, Idris Olanrewaju Okuneye (well known as Bobrisky) has been convicted by Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court, Ikeja after he pleaded guilty to abuse of the Naira. Before his conviction on Friday, Bobrisky pleaded with the court that he was not aware of the law on abusing the Naira. The judge then told him that ignorance …

Imo State House of Assembly has passed a bill to make skill acquisition and craftsmanship mandatory in primary/secondary schools and also to make the establishment of same in tertiary institutions in the state mandatory. The bill, sponsored by the member representing the Oguta state constituency, Mr Gilbert Nwosu, was passed during the plenary session on Tuesday. The second reading of …

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has raised the alarm over repeated attempts by some fraudsters to defraud retired judicial officers of their pensions. The council claimed that the fraudsters had been bombarding retired judges with phone calls demanding various sums of money to help them fast-track the payment of their retirement benefits. In a statement on Sunday, the NJC Director …

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Kubwa has struck out the N1 billion suit brought against a former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Mallam Abubakar Malami. Also sued was a civil servant, Ms. Asabe Waziri and two others – the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, and the Federal Ministry of Justice. …

The Senate Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution has promised to complete the process in 24 months. The Chairman of the Committee, Sen.Barau Jibrin, said this at the inaugural meeting of the committee on Wednesday in Abuja. “It is important to note that the Committee is not constituted to rewrite the 1999 Constitution but to process proposed amendments …

The Nigerian Bar Association ( NBA) has condemned the recent agreement to allow United Kingdom Attorneys to practice in Nigeria. The NBA President, Yakubu Maikyau (SAN), in an email to lawyers of the Nigerian Bar Association on Tuesday by 11:34 pm, titled “The Purported ETIP Agreement on Legal Services between the Government of Nigeria and the United Kingdom”, asserted that …

No fewer than seven men appeared before the Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday over an alleged move to tamper with a petroleum product pipeline. The defendants, Godbless Ebi, Saheed Abdulrahman, Gabriel Otovor, Anthony Arubayan, Emmanuel Ajayi, John Adebayo, and Godwin Joseph, were arraigned before Justice Abimbola Awogboro on a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and unlawfully tampering with …