The Governor of Rivers State, Barrister Nyesom Wike has named a block in the newly-inaugurated Justice Iche Ndu Magistrates Court Complex in the state after his wife, Justice Eberechi Nyesom Wike. The governor, who disclosed this during the inauguration of the complex on Thursday, also named other blocks after some top judicial officers in the state. Wike said he decided …

The judiciary has been warned against interfering with the electoral processes in Adamawa State following last Sunday’s false declaration of a winner of the supplementary elections held in the state a day earlier. The state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Barrister Hudu Yunusa-Ari had announced Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed (well known as Binani), the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, …

Penultimate Tuesday, I flew from Lagos to Abuja and thereafter travelled by road to Lokoja, the capital of Kogi state, to witness activities marking the retirement of a Kogi State High Court judge, Hon. Justice Alaba Andrew Omolaye-Ajileye, as he attained the age of 65 years. The exit of this quintessential, cerebral, bold, courageous, even audacious, judge from the Bench …

If President Muhammadu Buhari assents to a set of constitutional amendment bills about to be sent to him by the Senate, the Houses of Assembly and the judiciary in the 36 states will receive their financial allocations directly from the Federation Account. Two proposed laws making this mandatory are among the 35 Constitution Alteration bills that the Clerk of the …