The Malabu scandal involves the transfer of about $1.1 billion by oil multinationals, Shell and ENI, through the Nigerian government to accounts controlled by a former Nigerian oil minister, Dan…
Italian oil giant, Eni S.P.A, has been granted approval to subpoena asset recovery and litigation finance companies that it accused of being involved in a shady deal to fund litigation…
Thirteen-year-old Omar Farouq faces the prospect of spending his youth in prison in Nigeria after a Shariah court in the northern city of Kano found that he had used blasphemy during…
One of the founders of Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID), an Irish-owned company in a $10 billion legal battle with Nigeria in the British courts, Mr. Brendan Cahill, has been…
Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja with agency report One of the founders of Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID), an Irish-owned company in a $10 billion legal battle with Nigeria in the…
Brendan Cahill, one of the founders of Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID), an Irish-owned company in a $10bn (€8.4bn) legal battle with Nigeria in the British courts, was caught up…
(Bloomberg) -- Nigeria’s Supreme Court dismissed an application by Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s local unit to review a $467-million award for damages caused by an oil spill half a century…
KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Two judges in northern Nigeria on Thursday heard the first appeals against Islamic law blasphemy convictions that caused global outrage when a man was sentenced to…
Law360, London (November 26, 2020, 2:51 PM GMT) -- An appeals court overturned an order on Thursday that prevented a construction company seeking damages over an abandoned hotel commission in…
Shankar was on board the MT Apecus oil tanker when it was attacked by pirates in April last year.The events in Shankar’s life over the past two years are straight…
Editorial THE Banking and other Financial Institutions (BOFI) Act, 2020, signed into law last week by President Muhammadu Buhari, has the establishment of a credit tribunal as one of…
Priti Patel sought to publicly intervene three times on behalf of an offshore company which has been accused in a British court of obtaining a £100m contract from the Nigerian…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has been petitioned by 16 persons, who participated in the #EndSARS protests in October and had their accounts frozen by the Central Bank of…
The freezing of bank accounts owned by #EndSARS protesters and promoters is a gross violation of rights and an attack on Nigeria’s democracy, legal experts and activists say. This is…
(This is the third part in a series on sexual assault in Nigerian universities and the need for more effective regulations. Read the first part here and the second part…
Today (November 2) on the international calendar is devoted to 'End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists' and comes just days after a country such as Somalia pledged to end arrest…
The President of the Nigerian Bar association, Olumide Akpata, has said that Nigerian Governors are well within their rights or the power of the law to set up panels of…
Yusuph Olaniyonu and Jeremy Gaines Today (November 2) on the international calendar is devoted to ‘End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists’ and comes just days after a country such as…
Editorial A legislation is said to be brewing in the House of Representatives by which courts would no longer have to invalidate the mandate of a President-elect or Governor-elect,…
Editorial The bill before the House of Representatives, to amend the provision of section 291(1) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), to raise the retirement age of…
