Atiku’s Appeal: Parties can’t dictate to CJN over panel composition—Ex-Chief Judge, SANs
Say position of opposition parties laughable By Ise-Oluwa Ige Six prominent lawyers and jurist including a one-time Chief Judge of…
Edition: International
Monday 21 October, 2019
Litigation
Atiku’s Appeal: Parties can’t dictate to CJN over panel composition—Ex-Chief Judge, SANs
Say position of opposition parties laughable By Ise-Oluwa Ige Six prominent lawyers and jurist including a one-time Chief Judge of…
Lagos court jails 56-yr-old for raping a teenager
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered a 56-year-old man, Akinbomi Ademola, to be remanded in prison for allegedly raping…
$8.4m Fraud: Ajudua’s lawyer turns heat on Bamaiyi, queries fund source
Member of the inner bar, Olalekan Ojo (SAN) on Wednesday turned heat on the former Chief of Army Staff, retired…
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
Alleged $21bn Fraud: Senate probes 7 oil firms
The Senate, Wednesday, began the probe of seven international oil companies over their alleged refusal to remit about $21 billion…
The illegality of Nigerien governors campaigning for Buhari
On 1st February, 2019, something curious and unusual about President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election campaign rally at the Sani Abacha stadium,…
N1.28bn Fraud: Senator Akpan in fresh trouble over own evidence before EFCC
Admits collecting N303m car worth for his 2014 governorship bid As FG moves to arraign him, recover all undeclared assets Ahead…
Crime
How I butchered my wife to death like a goat—Farmer
I thought I was actually killing a goat. It was after killing her that my eyes became clear and I…
Ahead poll, CCB summons Bayelsa PDP guber candidate
The Code of Conduct Tribunal has summoned the gubernatorial flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, Senator…
119 Nigerians on death row in Malaysia –Amnesty International
Global human rights body, Amnesty International (AI) has disclosed that no fewer than 119 Nigerians are on death row in…
Bar and Bench
The brouhaha over composition of S’Court panel on Atiku’s case needless—Justice Ilori, SANs
In this piece, Ise-Oluwa Ige surveys the position of legal experts on the issues raised by the opposition parties on…
NJC clears tribunal judge, Justice Ikpeme
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has dismissed a petition by Senator Smart Adeyemi against Justice Akon Ikpeme of the Cross…
Atiku’s Appeal: S’Court warns CUPP over peddling of false information
The Supreme Court on Monday warned a pressure group, the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) over its claim that…
Metro News
Atiku’s Appeal: Parties can’t dictate to CJN over panel composition—Ex-Chief Judge, SANs
Say position of opposition parties laughable By Ise-Oluwa Ige Six prominent lawyers and jurist including a one-time Chief Judge of…
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
NDDC: A peoples’ albatross – Adegboruwa
According to the introductory note to the Act establishing it, the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was conceived to “use the…
That Supreme Court trap, by Reno Omokri
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has been compromised. That ought to be clear to anybody with discernment. The ordeal of…
The illegality of Nigerien governors campaigning for Buhari
On 1st February, 2019, something curious and unusual about President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election campaign rally at the Sani Abacha stadium,…
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
The brouhaha over composition of S’Court panel on Atiku’s case needless—Justice Ilori, SANs
In this piece, Ise-Oluwa Ige surveys the position of legal experts on the issues raised by the opposition parties on…
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,…