Eric Ikhilae Abuja

A former Abia Governor Orji Uzo Kalu failed on Friday in a bid to stop the Federal Government from appealing the September 29, 2021 judgment by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja stopping his prosecution on a N7.1billion money laundering charge. In two rulings on Friday, a three-member panel of the appellate […]

The Supreme Court has set aside the December 22, 2024 majority judgment of the Court of Appeal in Enugu sacking Senator Samuel Anyanwu as the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A five-member panel of the apex court, presided over by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji was unanimous, in a judgment on Friday, that both

The trial of self-acclaimed leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, will begin afresh today before a new judge. Kanu was repatriated from Kenya in 2021 and was arraigned in court that year. But after three years of his trial, he said he had lost confidence in Justice Binta Nyako, who handled

   

The scheduled arraignment of Reverend Dr. Israel Akanji, the former resident Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Garki, Abuja over an alleged N620 million fraud was stalled on Thursday owing to the absence of the lawyer for the prosecution. Rev. Akanji was to be arraigned before Justice J. A. Aina of the High Court of

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has faulted media reports claiming that the detained self acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has been ordered released and returned to Kenya by the Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman of the NJC, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun. In a statement on Thursday, NJC’s Deputy Director (Information),

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has faulted media reports claiming that the detained self acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has been ordered released and returned to Kenya by the Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman of the NJC, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun. In a statement on Thursday, NJC’s Deputy Director (Information),

•Most inmates suffering for lack of legal representation, others A Federal Government’s visitation panel on prisons has said the conditions of the correctional centres and their inmates are appalling and unbearable. The panel, headed by a former Ekiti State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Olawale Fapohunda (SAN), found that most inmates are languishing in

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA) Afam Osigwe (SAN) has blamed the political crisis in Rivers State on the ego of the political actors involved. Osigwe said the problem resulted from the ego of the principal actors who failed to see the need to sit down to find a solution that works for