Ibrahim Salami, one of the lawyers representing Sunday Adeyemo, Yoruba Nation activist better known as Sunday Igboho, says a new charge was brought up against his client on Monday. Salami said Igboho came to Benin through a back channel and the judge said [...]
The restlessness that has greeted the passage of the much-talked about Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by the National Assembly (NASS), the other day, has clearly counteracted the desired goodwill that the proposed law should ordinarily command. The bill ought to [...]
The Senate has suspended plenary for nine weeks to enable lawmakers embark on annual recess. The lawmakers will resume on September 14. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, made the announcement at the end of Thursday’s plenary which lasted for over six hours. [...]
The report on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill has been laid before the House of Representatives. The bill, which seeks to amend the 2010 Electoral Act was presented to the House on Wednesday by the Chairperson of the Committee on Electoral [...]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned five Sokoto State Primary Education Staff Pension Board officials before Justice Muhammad Muhammad of the State High Court. They are facing a 27-count charge bordering on alleged conspiracy, forgery, criminal [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari almost for the first time in the life of this administration directly spoke to the herder-farmer crises but curiously offered the wrong antidote. His avowal of archaic and controversial gazette supposedly unveiling grazing routes is antithetical to [...]
A bill for an Act to establish the Nigerian Peace Corps currently before the House of Representatives is to be passed soon, House Majority Leader, Alhaji Alhassan Doguwa, has said. A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Peace [...]
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in girls and women’s sports at public schools in his southern US state. “We believe that is very important that the integrity of these [...]
Usman Baba Alkali cannot be confirmed as Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police (IGP) in the eyes of the law, a check by Hopefornigeriaonline on the Nigeria Police Act 2020 has revealed. President Muhammadu Buhari had last Tuesday, asked Alkali to [...]
The Nigerian Bar Association, Gwagwalada Branch has petitioned the Code of Conduct Bureau and Medical and Dental Practitioners Counsel of Nigeria over the unprofessional role played by Dr. Jide Kudehimbu in the untimely death of Miss Mercy Uzonwanne. In a [...]
A mother-of-six has asked the Court of Appeal in Benin City to void an order which her estranged husband relied on to evict her from her matrimonial home. Mrs. Agnes Ikpea, 64, who has six adult children with her estranged [...]
Bolu Okupe, son to Doyin Okupe, former aide to then President Goodluck Jonathan, has condemned the Nigerian anti-gay law, stating that some of those who signed it were gays themselves. The anti-gay law was signed by Jonathan in January 2014. [...]
A member of the Supreme Court, Justice Ibrahim Saulawa disclosed this at the unveiling of the national headquarters of the Muslim Lawyers’ Association of Nigeria (MULAN) on Tuesday in Abuja. Justice Muhammad was absent at the swearing – in of [...]
A magistrate court in Wuse, Zone 6, Abuja, has sentenced a member of the House of Representatives, Victor Mela, to one month imprisonment for perjury. Mela, who represents Billiri/Balanga Federal Constituency, was, however, given an option of fine. He is [...]
The ECOWAS Court of Justice sitting in Abuja, on Friday, ordered the Federal Government of Nigeria to repeal or amend the provision of its cybercrimes law, which violates citizens’ right of expression. Delivering the judgment of the three-man panel of [...]
Months after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) and Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) publicly declared that the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu does not require the confirmation of the Senate to be [...]
The Senate on Tuesday reintroduced a bill that seeks to penalise persons found guilty of hate speech. The National Commission for the Prohibition of Hate Speech Bill was sponsored by the deputy chief whip, Aliyu Abdullahi. It prescribes death penalty [...]
The Senate has reintroduced a bill it abandoned under pressure last year through which it sought to impose the death penalty on “any person found guilty of any form of hate speech that results in the death of another person.” [...]
The Bill titled, “National Commission for the Prohibition of Hate Speeches (Est, etc) Bill, 2019(SB.154) and sponsored by the Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, All Progressives Congress, APC, Niger North was read the first time [...]
Malawi court suspends wearing of wigs: A heatwave has forced Malawi’s constitutional court to suspend its requirement for lawyers and judges to wear traditional white wigs and black robes in the courtroom. Temperatures in some parts of the southern African country have hit [...]
He sponsored 50 young lawyers from Kano Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association branch to learn cybersecurity and be certified by Cisco Networking Academy for them to keep up with 21st century best practices for the legal profession. He did [...]
An Abuja Division of the Federal High Court will, on Monday, deliver its ruling in a suit, seeking to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from inaugurating the 43 ministerial nominees over the exclusion of an FCT indigene from his cabinet list. [...]
With the rising spate of insecurity spreading across the country, particularly with banditry and kidnapping taking frightening dimensions, even late convert President Muhammadu Buhari has seen reason to pursue the agenda of instituting state police. Apprehension about its possible abuse [...]
Former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, yesterday failed to appear before Justice Folashade Ogunbanjo-Giwa of the Federal High Court, Abuja, to explain his role in the approval of N2.5 billion to Pinnacle Communications Ltd for the Digital Switch [...]
Bayelsa Governor, Seriake Dickson, is mulling the signing of death sentences of convicted kidnappers to send a signal that there is no place to hide for felons in the state. Among the convicted kidnappers are those found guilty and sentenced [...]
Lawyers in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital have cautioned Nigerians against the danger of appointing dead and retired judges into the nation’s election petition tribunal. The group of concerned lawyers who declined being identified faulted the list of the [...]
The State High Court sitting in Kaduna has ordered that Notice of Consequence of Disobedience of Court Order (FORM 48) be served on Kaduna State government (Office of the Secretary to the State Government), Kaduna Geographic Information Service (KADGIS) and [...]
Chuka Austine Obiozor, a justice, issued a restraining order to the Ikoyi registry from conducting marriages, saying it is unconstitutional for the Federal Government to perform the duties of the state and local governments. The judgement delivered on Suit No: [...]
The Lagos State Government has secured a court injunction restraining the Federal Government’s owned Registry in Ikoyi from conducting marriages. It held that it was unconstitutional for the Federal Government to be usurping the power of the State Government and [...]
Scores of traditional rulers in Imo State, are currently shivering over the threats by Fulani herdsmen in the state. ADVERTISING Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chris Ezike. It is now the turn of traditional rulers in Owerri North [...]
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