Ado Ekiti — As legal fireworks begin to trail the shunning of the summon issued by the House of Representatives to President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before it, a legal…
As the world celebrats the United Nations Human Rights Day, the Nigerian Feminist Forum contends that feeing women from the shackles of oppression through economic development will require policy and…
Abuja — The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to mobilise Nigerian workers in protest against the move by the state governors to borrow N17 trillion from the pension funds…
Abuja — The House of Representatives yesterday passed for second reading a Bill seeking to set timeline within which to start and conclude civil and criminal cases in High Courts…
Legal luminaries have urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to quickly issue Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume a Certificate of Return (CoR) for winning the December 5 Imo North senatorial…
Nseobong Okon-Ekong holds a conversation with Professor Peter Umeadi, retired Chief Justice of Anambra State who is building a political structure from the scratch in his effort to become President…
On May 12, 2020, a bill seeking to alter the constitution to legalise virtual court proceedings passed through the first reading at the Senate, raising hopes of decongesting the courts…
Goddy Egene writes that the plan by the federal government to set up a trust fund through the Finance Bill to manage unclaimed dividends in the nation's capital will be…
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…
Worried by speedy drifting into comatose of governance and democratic system, the Inter Party Advisory Council of Nigeria, IPAC, said it has taken drastic measure to reposition the Council into…
Lagos — ... Unavailing remedy? This article by Josephine Aburime discusses local and cross-border adoptions; that the fact that Nigeria is not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on…
The Acting Governor of Kaduna state, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, has clarified that the law to castrate rapists was enacted to serve both as a deterrent from committing the crime in…
Today, a continental court in Africa delivered a landmark opinion on colonial era vagrancy laws, which criminalize activities such as loitering, public indecency, and begging. The judgement has the potential…
THE Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), Mr Abubacarr Tambadou has pledged to continue sustaining the current co-operation between the Court and the Judiciary of Tanzania.…
The counsel also told the panel that the victim is related to the alleged kidnap kingpin. Nzube Obiechina, a school teacher who lost her two-month-old pregnancy during police torture in…
Less than 27 months to the 2023 presidential polls, leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, are in a pitch battle for the soul of the party. They are…
Rebuilding the nation post Covid-19 will require effective leadership, as the pandemic is not only a public health crisis, but has also heavily impacted and disrupted the economic, political and…
"If we keep on adjourning and adjourning, we will be here for another two years," the judge said. Doris Okuwobi, a retired judge heading the Lagos State Judicial Panel on…
Katsina — The family of the Katsina State-born business mogul, Mahdi Shehu, yesterday expressed fear for his life because they had not heard from him since his detention by the…
After a couple of days in detention, the senator representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, was released on bail. The question now is what happens next? Does Ndume's brief incarceration compensate…
