As the world celebrats the United Nations Human Rights Day, the Nigerian Feminist Forum contends that feeing women from the…
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Nigeria: Bill Seeking Timeline for Civil, Criminal Cases Passes for Second Reading
Abuja — The House of Representatives yesterday passed for second reading a Bill seeking to set timeline within which to…
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Nigeria: Imo – SAN, Ex-Speaker, Imo APC, Others Task INEC Over Certificate of Return
Legal luminaries have urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to quickly issue Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume a Certificate of…
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Nigeria: The Courts Should Not Decide Who Has Won a Political Contest
Nseobong Okon-Ekong holds a conversation with Professor Peter Umeadi, retired Chief Justice of Anambra State who is building a political…
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Nigeria: Decongesting the Courts With Virtual Proceedings
On May 12, 2020, a bill seeking to alter the constitution to legalise virtual court proceedings passed through the first…
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Nigeria: Examining Govt’s Move On Unclaimed Dividends
Goddy Egene writes that the plan by the federal government to set up a trust fund through the Finance Bill…
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Nigeria: Cross-Border Adoption in Nigeria
Lagos — … Unavailing remedy? This article by Josephine Aburime discusses local and cross-border adoptions; that the fact that Nigeria…
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Nigeria: Kaduna Introduces Sex Offenders Register to Name, Shame Perpetrators
The Acting Governor of Kaduna state, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, has clarified that the law to castrate rapists was enacted to…
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African Court’s Landmark Opinion Could Reduce Criminalization of Poverty, Prison Overcrowding
Today, a continental court in Africa delivered a landmark opinion on colonial era vagrancy laws, which criminalize activities such as…
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Tanzania: International Court, Tanzania Judiciary to Forge Stronger Cooperation
THE Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), Mr Abubacarr Tambadou has pledged to continue sustaining the…
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Nigeria: How Nigeria Police Tortured Me While Pregnant – Woman Tells Panel
The counsel also told the panel that the victim is related to the alleged kidnap kingpin. Nzube Obiechina, a school…
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Nigeria: Lagos #EndSARS Panel Criticise Police Delay Tactics
“If we keep on adjourning and adjourning, we will be here for another two years,” the judge said. Doris Okuwobi,…
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Nigeria: Abdulraheed Maina Must Not Go Scot-Free
After a couple of days in detention, the senator representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, was released on bail. The question…
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Nigeria: Of Reform and Judicial Officers
Upgrading our Judiciary In considering Judicial reforms, apart from implementing better working conditions for our judicial officers and increasing the…
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Nigeria: P&ID – Irishman Involved in €8bn Nigerian Court Battle Caught Up in Alleged Arms Deal
One of the founders of Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID), an Irish-owned company in a $10 billion legal battle with…
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West Africa: Rule By the Law – A Statement On the Recent Decision of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice
Human Rights Lawyer and Legal Consultant of the Liberia Law Society, Attorney-at-Law Samuel Kofi Woods, II has declared the decision…
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Nigeria: Jimoh Ibrahim – How AMCON Misled Court
The chief promoter of Global Fleet Oil & Gas Limited and NICON Investment Limited, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, yesterday alleged that…
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Nigeria: Lai Mohammed’s Hatred for Media Freedom
This article by Emmanuel Onwubiko examines what the writer believes to be unnecessary attacks by the Minister of Information and…
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Nigeria: ENL Appeals Court Judgment On Disengaged Dockworkers
ENL Consortium, operator of Terminals C and D, Lagos Port Complex Apapa, has sought the leave of the Court of…
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Nigeria: How Saraki Sold Off Land Allocated for Courtrooms in Ilorin – Officials
Several plots of land allocated in the 1980s for the construction of courtrooms in Ilorin, Kwara State, were sold off…
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