N22.8bn Fraud: Ex-Air Force Chief, Amosu, others stall trial, seek plea bargain
Former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Adesola Amosu and 10 others facing trial over alleged involvement in a N22.8…
36 govs queue behind creation of state police
We didn’t manipulate prepaid meters for increased profit—EEDC
N22.8bn Fraud: Ex-Air Force Chief, Amosu, others stall trial, seek plea bargain
Former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Adesola Amosu and 10 others facing trial over alleged involvement in a N22.8…
36 govs queue behind creation of state police
It is the sole answer to insecurity challenge in Nigeria Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) Chairman, Abdulaziz Yari on Monday queued…
We didn’t manipulate prepaid meters for increased profit—EEDC
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has denied allegations by consumers that it had manipulated the factory settings of the…
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…
Poor legal representation and prison decongestion, by Joseph Onyekwere
Many of the awaiting trial persons (ATPs) do not have legal or active legal representation and some who have legal…
Litigation
N22.8bn Fraud: Ex-Air Force Chief, Amosu, others stall trial, seek plea bargain
Former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Adesola Amosu and 10 others facing trial over alleged involvement in a N22.8…
Poor legal representation and prison decongestion, by Joseph Onyekwere
Many of the awaiting trial persons (ATPs) do not have legal or active legal representation and some who have legal…
Abuja indigenes win in court, seek elected mayoralty, full citizenship
After the brutal assassination of the founder of Abuja, Gen. Murtala Mohammed, 42-years ago, the original inhabitants of Abuja, have…
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…
For The Record
IBB to Nigerians: Let’s endure Buhari till 2019
Full text of the statement…
Obasanjo’s full statement on Buhari’s performance, political career
Since we are still in…
Politics
36 govs queue behind creation of state police
It is the sole answer to insecurity challenge in Nigeria Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) Chairman, Abdulaziz Yari on Monday queued…
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…
Abuja indigenes win in court, seek elected mayoralty, full citizenship
After the brutal assassination of the founder of Abuja, Gen. Murtala Mohammed, 42-years ago, the original inhabitants of Abuja, have…
Crime
N22.8bn Fraud: Ex-Air Force Chief, Amosu, others stall trial, seek plea bargain
Former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Adesola Amosu and 10 others facing trial over alleged involvement in a N22.8…
36 govs queue behind creation of state police
It is the sole answer to insecurity challenge in Nigeria Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) Chairman, Abdulaziz Yari on Monday queued…
How smugglers cut off the left arm of our officer—Customs
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) at the weekend gave a graphic details of how suspected daredevil smugglers attacked some of…
Bar and Bench
Police nab suspected fake lawyer who practised for 15 years without certificate
The police on Wednesday said that a suspected fake lawyer who has freely practised for 15 years, Chris Elijah, is…
Abia lawmakers set to ease out suspended chief judge
Abia State House of Assembly is planning to ease out the suspended Chief Judge, Theresa Uzokwe. The indication became apparent…
Why we sacked Justice Oji, swore in Ogwe as Abia Acting CJ—Ikpeazu
Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu on Monday swore in Justice Onuoha Arisa Kalu Ogwe as the state Acting Chief Judge.…
Metro News
N22.8bn Fraud: Ex-Air Force Chief, Amosu, others stall trial, seek plea bargain
Former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Adesola Amosu and 10 others facing trial over alleged involvement in a N22.8…
Business
We didn’t manipulate prepaid meters for increased profit—EEDC
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has denied allegations by consumers that it had manipulated the factory settings of the…
Family
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…
Adultery: Court dissolves 7-year-old marriage, docks Romeo Pastor
A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Friday dissolved seven-year-old marriage between Omolara and her husband, Abiodun Ojeyemi, for adulterous…
Education
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…
Exams Malpractices: WAEC bans 47 schools in Kogi from 2018 WASSCE
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has banned 47 schools from presenting candidates in the 2018 West African Senior School…
Opinion
A betrayal of academic trust, by Leo Igwe
A photo of the student from Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola who was accused of abusing Prophet Muhammad has…
Restructuring and the herdsmen question, by Adetokunbo Pearse
Reform in the fiscal and the security sectors can aid the effort to alleviate the growing tension between nomadic herdsmen…
Three old men in the ring, by Dare Babarinsa
The people of Lafia trooped out last Tuesday to welcome the nation’s number one citizen to Nasarawa State. The enthusiastic…
Interview
Buhari makes me sad—Balarabe Musa
Half way into the President Buhari’s tenure, elder statesman and former governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa…
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 kick-starts 5-day conference for Nigerian judges
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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,…