A former Lagos Commissioner of Justice, Olasupo Shasore (SAN), yesterday, explained his role in the $10 billion arbitral award procured by a British firm, P &...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) says Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a musician sentenced to death in Kano state, has been denied access to a lawyer. NewsWireNGR recalls that...
The newly elected President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata has been sworn in. Akpata condemned the move by northern lawyers in the country...
Mike Ozekhome, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says the plan to carve a faction out of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) will not work. Following...
President Muhammadu Buhari has decried what he described as the “slow pace” of justice administration in the country. The President proposed a 12-month time limit for...
The National Industrial Court sitting in Lagos has struck out two cases in respect of the crisis rocking the University of Lagos (UNILAG). Justice Jeremiah Essien...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says an effective synergy among the three arms of government including representatives of the legal profession would be a useful approach to...
The Federal Government on Monday reviewed the 2020 Draft Federal Capital Territory Courts Sentencing Guideline and Practice Directions, geared towards the effective implementation of the Nigerian...
Four judges have been nominated for appointment as Justices of the Supreme Court by the National Judicial Council Justices Abdu Aboki, Mohammed Garba, Tijjani Abubakar and...
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday adjourned the trial of former Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke, and an Abuja-based businessman, Aliyu Abubakar. The...
A Kano Upper Shariah Court has on Wednesday sentenced a sixty, 60-year-old man, identified as Mati Abdu to death by stoning for raping a minor. Abdu,...
Pro-Democracy and Human Rights group, Concerned Nigerians, has condemned the sentence to death by hanging of Kano based musician, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu for blaspheming against the Prophet...