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Experts task FG on tech policies, legislations

Participants at the Duale Ovia & Alex-Adedipe TMT Business Law Breakfast Series 2024, Adeniyi Duale (left); Kola Aina; Adesuwa Okunbo-Rhodes; Kyari Abba Bukar; Tosin Eniolorunda; Femi Ogunjimi and Olatubosun ...

As the Nigerian Bar Association prepares for its forthcoming 64th Annual General Conference, lawyers are calling for a reduction in the conference’s registration fees, while some have planned to boycott the ...

Court of Appeal declares Police regulations banning unmarried female officers from getting pregnant unlawful

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal has declared as unconstitutional the Police regulations that prohibit a serving unmarried female police officer from getting pregnant in service. The court held that the ...

Lawyers urged to embrace AI, innovation

Legal practitioners have been urged to embrace the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their practices to meet up with current realities and to avoid being obsolete. This was said at the fifth edition of the ...

AMCON sues firm, directors over N42b alleged debt

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has filed a suit at the Federal High Court, Lagos against the Chairman of Milan Industries Limited, Milan Nigeria Limited and Milan Beverages Limited, Rajesh ...

The lawyer accused Richards of sundry acts of cyberbullying and libelling Olukoya. Ayotunde Richards, a gospel singer and former member of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) and a 23-year-old blogger ...

Activist drags Ghana to ECOWAS Court over unlawful detention, deportation

A human rights activist and journalist, Shallie Abbuisi, has sued the Ghanaian government at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice, over what she termed unlawful arrest, detention ...

$413,000 Bribery: Court Again Adjourns Arraignment Of APC Chairman, Ganduje, Wife

They were first scheduled to be arraigned before Justice Justice Usman Na’abba on April 17 but the arraignment could not go on due to service failure. The Kano State High Court has fixed May 16, 2024 for the ...

BREAKING: Abuja Magistrate Court Strikes Out Cyberbullying, Criminal Intimidation Case Against Blogger Ijele As Prison Officer Thwarts Police Move To Rearrest Him

The Chief Magistrate, Emmanuel Iyanna, while ruling on the bail application filed through his lawyer on Thursday struck out the case for lack of jurisdiction. A magistrate court in Abuja has struck out the case ...

The Supreme Court has dismissed the two appeals filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last governorship election in Benue State, Uba Titus, seeking to void the victory of Governor ...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Robert Clarke, has described the 1999 Constitution as the cornerstone of the nation’s problems. Clarke stated this on Tuesday while reacting to the truce reached as President Bola ...

The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the governor of Enugu state. A five-member panel of the court unanimously dismissed two appeals filed by the ...

An $11 billion damages bill against Nigeria for a collapsed gas processing project which was procured by bribery has been thrown out by London’s High Court, Reuters reported yesterday.The West African country was ...

The 11 Justices-designate of the Supreme Court who were cleared yesterday by the Senate will be sworn in next week, The Nation learnt yesterday. Sources said following the confirmation, the Senate will ...

A professional surety, Jude Okpala (a.k.a Stephen Ekpanisi), who aided a drug baron, Okpala Mathew Emmy, to escape from custody, was on Thursday convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment by a Federal High ...

A  Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the remand of an alleged WhatsApp hacker, Stephen Andrew Ojo, at the Ikoyi centre of the Nigerian Correctional Services. Justice Akintayo Aluko remanded the ...

An Ekiti State Chief Magistrate Court in Ado Ekiti has sentenced 58-year-old Nurudeen Ibrahim to five years imprisonment with hard labour for conspiracy, false pretence with intent to defraud and indecent assault. ...

A Magistrate’s Court sitting in the Yaba area of Lagos State has remanded two friends, Noah Tovohome and Rajay Zannu, to a correctional centre for allegedly plotting and killing their friend, Segun Zusu, over 36 ...

Justice Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan, on Thursday, convicted and sentenced the Chief Executive Officer of Crime Alert Security Network, Ibadan, Olaniyan Gbenga Amos, to 75 years ...

An Ondo State High Court, sitting in Akure, on Monday, sentenced six people to two years imprisonment for violence and breach of peace in the coastal community of Ayetoro in Ilaje Local Government Area of the state. ...