CrimeFeatured 2024 UTME: JAMB orders arrest of parents found near CBT centres BarandbenchApril 19, 2024April 19, 20240 Ahead of the 2024 Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all Computer-Based Test… Read More
FeaturedLitigation Osun court pronounces death by hanging verdict on two armed robbers BarandbenchApril 18, 2024April 18, 20240 An Osun State High Court, sitting in Osogbo on Thursday sentenced two armed robbers—Wasiu Afolayan, 36 and Kola Adeyemi, 34,… Read More
FeaturedLitigation Another high court halts Ganduje’s suspension, orders return to status quo BarandbenchApril 18, 2024April 18, 20240 A Federal High Court in Kano has halted the suspension of the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC,… Read More
CrimeFeatured EFCC declares Yahaya Bello wanted BarandbenchApril 18, 2024April 18, 20240 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, wanted. Bello… Read More
CrimeFeatured FG worries over Kogi gov’s purported subversion of Yahaya Bello’s arrest BarandbenchApril 18, 2024April 18, 20240 The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, has described as disquieting the purported role played… Read More
FeaturedNews FG directs inclusion of NOUN graduates in NYSC scheme, law school BarandbenchApril 18, 2024April 18, 20240 The Federal Government has directed the Ministry of Education to include graduates of the National Open University in the National… Read More
CommentaryFeatured N84b Theft: No court can prevent EFCC from prosecuting Yahaya Bello, by Femi Falana, SAN BarandbenchApril 17, 2024April 17, 20240 By virtue of section 35(1) (c) of the Constitution, the police, anti-graft agencies and other prosecutorial bodies cannot be prevented… Read More
FeaturedPolitics PDP Crisis: Groups pile pressure on BoT, govs to bar Atiku, Wike from NEC meeting BarandbenchApril 17, 2024April 17, 20240 Ahead of its National Executive Council (NEC), meeting scheduled for Thursday in Abuja, concerned groups of the Peoples Democratic Party… Read More
CrimeFeatured N84bn Fraud: EFCC operatives lay siege to Yahaya Bello’s house in Abuja BarandbenchApril 17, 2024April 17, 20240 Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, besieged the residence of the immediate past governor of… Read More
CommentaryFeatured My perspective on death penalty, by Afe Babalola BarandbenchApril 17, 2024April 17, 20240 Indeed, the Supreme Court of Nigeria in Kalu v. State (1998) 13 NWLR Pt 583 531 upheld the legality of… Read More