FeaturedLaw Icon Dr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, is our ICON for the week BarandbenchMay 12, 2024May 13, 20240 For leading, in 1987, people of like minds including Ama Ogan, then editor of The Guardian in Lagos; Abdul Oroh,… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Segun Olatunji: Hero or villain, asks Bolanle Bolawole BarandbenchMay 12, 2024May 12, 20240 I do not envy FirstNews! Doing what the newspaper has done is what newspapers and editors detest most. It’s a… Read More
FeaturedLitigation SERAP, BudgIT, 136 Nigerians sue Tinubu govt over cybersecurity levy BarandbenchMay 12, 2024May 12, 20240 The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT and 136 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit before a Federal high… Read More
Business Unknown gunmen murder FIRS staff in Maitama, Abuja BarandbenchMay 12, 2024May 12, 20240 Unknown gunmen have shot dead a staff member of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, simply identified as Khalid Bichi…. Read More
CrimeFeatured EFCC writes foreign minister, insists payment of embassies in dollars for services illegal BarandbenchMay 12, 2024May 12, 20240 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told embassies operating in Nigeria that it is illegal for them to… Read More
Crime Nigerian journalist released from prison after IPI Nigeria intervention BarandbenchMay 12, 2024May 12, 20240 The Nigerian National Committee of the International Press Institute (IPI Nigeria) has secured the release of a Nigerian journalist, Ibraheem… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Corpus juris abracadabrum, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchMay 11, 2024May 11, 20240 “I am surprised that lawyers can be so blind as to suffer the principles of law to be discredited.” Ralph… Read More
News Another aircraft skids off runway at Lagos airport BarandbenchMay 11, 2024May 11, 20240 Another Nigeria aircraft belonging to XEJET Airlines has skidded off the runway and landed in the grass at the Murtala… Read More
Litigation Leukemia Diagnosis: Why court ordered ExxonMobil to pay $725.5m to ex-mechanic BarandbenchMay 11, 2024May 11, 20240 A Pennsylvania jury ordered ExxonMobil (XOM.N) to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed toxic chemicals in the… Read More
CrimeFeatured Binance: Lawmaker denies receiving $140m bribe BarandbenchMay 11, 2024May 11, 20240 Member of House of Representatives, Dominic Okafor (APGA-Anambra) has denied receiving 140 million dollars bribe from Mr Nadeem Anjarwalla, the… Read More