2019 Polls: INEC, senate on collision course over timetable
We ‘ll be guided by constitution, not senate, on timetable for 2019 polls The independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) on…
Edition: International
Friday 27 April, 2018
Litigation
‘Devil lured me to kill my church members to conceal misdeed’, pastor tells court
Begs for forgiveness, leniency As court orders his remand, transfers his case-file for proper trial A 32-year-old Pastor, Chidiebere Okoroafor,…
Malabu: AGF’s legal advice to stop Diezani, Adoke’s trial shocking—House of Reps
Says decision won’t stop Jonathan, Adoke’s probe The House of Representatives on Sunday described as shocking last week legal advice…
Supreme Court voids sack of former Chief Registrar of Appeal Court
A five-member panel of the Supreme Court has voided the nine-year old sack of former Chief Registrar of the Court…
Bar & Bench Icon
Bar and Bench Watch ICON: JUSTICE MAHMUD MOHAMMED, GCON
For serving on the bench for 32 straight years without scandal; for his humility, transparency, hard-work, courage and candour on…
Bar and Bench Watch ICON: MIKE ABU AGBEDOR OZEKHOME, SAN
For wrestling poverty to submission with uncommon determination and zealous hard-work; for being in the trenches at the risk of…
Politics
2019 Polls: INEC, senate on collision course over timetable
We ‘ll be guided by constitution, not senate, on timetable for 2019 polls The independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) on…
Fresh religious crisis in Kaduna claims lives, houses
El-Rufai orders arrest, CAN condemns violence Some residents were on Monday, reportedly killed, more injured while many houses torched in…
$2.1bn Arms Deals: Ex-Army chief, Minimah, coughs out N1.7b to EFCC
Indications emerged at the weekend that former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Kenneth Minimah (retd) has refunded about N1.7billion to…
Crime
‘Devil lured me to kill my church members to conceal misdeed’, pastor tells court
Begs for forgiveness, leniency As court orders his remand, transfers his case-file for proper trial A 32-year-old Pastor, Chidiebere Okoroafor,…
Brutality: Lagos police begs NBA, seeks partnership on dispensation of justice
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohim Edgar, has appealed to the Ikeja chapter of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to…
Fresh religious crisis in Kaduna claims lives, houses
El-Rufai orders arrest, CAN condemns violence Some residents were on Monday, reportedly killed, more injured while many houses torched in…
Bar and Bench
‘Judiciary should be on first line charge for better access to funds, performance’
Like every other sector, the judicial system in Nigeria is faced with myriad of problems. One of those challenges, which…
Solanke to Senior Lawyers: Stop using pupil lawyers as slaves
First female Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Folake Solanke has appealed to senior lawyers who utilize the services of young…
Supreme Court voids sack of former Chief Registrar of Appeal Court
A five-member panel of the Supreme Court has voided the nine-year old sack of former Chief Registrar of the Court…
Metro News
2019 Polls: INEC, senate on collision course over timetable
We ‘ll be guided by constitution, not senate, on timetable for 2019 polls The independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) on…
Business
EFCC picks up suspected Wonder Bank operators
The Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 27 suspected operators of illegal financial…
Family
Prof Akinwunmi Ishola didn’t give any sign of death—Wife
Narrates how he died in his home As prominent Nigerians including President Muhammadu Buhari, Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi…
Court sends 25-yr old man to Agodi prison for defiling a teenager
For allegedly defiling a 16-year-old girl in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan has remanded…
Motorbike Mishap: Aisha Buhari in trauma over son’s condition, hospitalised
There were indications Friday that Aisha, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, has been hospitalised over trauma. She was said…
Opinion
Lagos Port congestion: A conversation, by Hope Eghagha
Lagbaja: The madness of the Lagos Port congestion kills me; reminds me of the cement armada of the 1970s, which…
Christians are idol worshippers, by Femi Aribisala
I went to buy blank videotapes in a van emblazoned with Christian VideoNet on both sides. When I came out…
Dark cloud over South Africa, by Charles Onunaiju
Following the desperate push to get him out of office and eventual capitulation of former President Jacob Zuma to the…
Education
Sack: Court orders UNIOSUN to pay entitlements to suspended registrar, bursar
Absolves them of financial impropriety The National Industrial Court sitting in Ibadan has ordered Osun State University (UNIOSUN) to pay…
After 9 months, Fayose wakes FG over promise to rename Oye-Ekiti varsity after Gen Adebayo
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has written to remind President Muhammadu Buhari about the renaming of the Federal University, Oye…
2017 Exploration Trip: Boko Haram releases three abducted UNIMAID staff–
Wives of 10 police officers also get reprieve The Department of State Service (DSS), on Saturday, disclosed that three University…
Interview
APC’s stand on restructuring uncertain—Makarfi
Former governor of Kaduna State and immediate past chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi speaks…
Event
NJI partners with IIP, IIPELP, kick-starts 3rd Annual Judges Conference for judges in Abuja
L-R: Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, the Founder, International Institute for Petroleum, Energy Law and Policy, Prof Niyi…
Special Report
Endless rivalry between Ajimobi, Shittu threatens Oyo APC, by Muyiwa Adeyemi
The fault lines in the 2014 formation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have continued to widen in Oyo State…
Photo News
NJI partners CIBN, holds seminar for judges on banking and allied matters
Second Vice President, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), Bayo Olugbemi (left); First Vice President, Dr. Uche Olowu; President/Chairman…
NJI begins four-day training workshop for judiciary’s support staff in Abuja
A cross section of participants during the Workshop for Court Registrars, Secretaries, Clerks and Bailiffs nationwide in Abuja on Monday,…