The Supreme Court on Wednesday consolidated various suits instituted by state governments – numbering 10 – with the most recent joiner being Abia State. The suit is challenging the implementation of the Naira redesign which introduced late last year. The motion for the consolidation was argued by counsel for Rivers State, Emmanuel Ukala. Ukala, while moving the motion on notice, …

Can a retired judge of the High Court be appointed into the appellate court by the President? This weighty question of law has been answered in the affirmative by no less a person than the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Yakubu Maikyau. Last Friday in Abuja at the launching of a book, In the Interest of Justice: Excellence in …