FeaturedPolitics Tinubu won’t take sides in Rivers crisis – Presidency BarandbenchMay 13, 2024May 13, 20240 The Presidency has said that President Bola Tinubu will not take sides in the political crisis rocking Rivers State. The… Read More
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
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
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
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
FeaturedLitigation Multiple Rape: Court jails popular Nigerian cleric, wife for 34, 11 years respectively BarandbenchMay 10, 2024May 10, 20240 A Birmingham Crown Court has jailed a 60-year old evangelical Nigerian pastor based in the United Kingdom, Michael Oluronbi, for… Read More
FeaturedLitigation Yahaya Bello elects to willingly appear in court on June 13 for trial BarandbenchMay 10, 2024May 10, 20240 Former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello on Friday finally agreed to submit himself to the Federal High Court in… Read More
CrimeFeatured Drug traffickers will henceforth die by hanging—Senate BarandbenchMay 9, 2024May 9, 20240 The Senate on Thursday approved death penalty for convicted dealers and importers of cocaine, heroin and other hard drugs into… Read More