A Kano High Court has summoned President of ECWA Church, Kano, Rev Dr. Job Ayuba Bagat for contempt after ignoring order of the court that stopped inauguration of Central District Church Council (DCC). Ordering Rev. ...

In a landmark achievement for Nigeria’s legal community, Afam Osigwe, SAN, President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has been widely praised for steering the recently concluded NBA Annual Conference to ...

The National Association of Catholic Lawyers (NACL), Lagos Archdiocese, has called for urgent reform of the 1999 Constitution, warning that it entrenches weak institutions, fuels authoritarian rule, and undermines ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has delivered two landmark judgments affirming citizens’ right to access public information, dismissing separate appeals filed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and ordering ...

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Lagos Branch, has staged a peaceful protest at the Nigerian Navy’s yard against what it described as unlawful actions in defiance of a subsisting court judgment. The lawyers ...

Borno State Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has reaffirmed his commitment to working closely with the Federal Government, National Assembly and other partners to deepen reforms in the state justice system, especially ...

Veteran Nigerian musician, Ms Uche Ibeto, popularly known as Jigida Queen, has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and the National Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate the high court judgment that ordered ...

Participants at the 7th Investigations, Compliance and Ethics (ICE) Summit have emphasised the need for companies to embrace compliance and ethics, which they said foster a culture of excellence. They also harped on ...

The new insurance law has been introduced to help victims of road accidents involving uninsured vehicles. Under the Nigerian Insurance Industry Reform Act (NIIRA) 2025, anyone injured in an accident caused by a car ...

ABUJA -Justice Bello Kawu, of High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has ordered the Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS) to pay the sum of N6.2million to a driver, Osayemwen Idahosa, over the violation ...

NITP unveils panel on planning law execution 18th August 2025 By  Josephine Ogundeji The Nigerian Institute of Town Planners has intensified its push for sustainable and orderly urban growth by inaugurating a ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja has scheduled September 24, 25, and 26, 2025, for the federal government to conclude its case in the prolonged trial of Sambo Dasuki (retd.), former National Security Adviser. ...

The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL) has urged the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) and the Federal Government to suspend ...

Emeka Nwite, the presiding judge, issued the order on Tuesday following an ex-parte application moved by Wisdom Madaki, counsel to the IGP. The defendants in the suit are Sowore, Sahara Reporters Media Foundation, ...

A Nigerian judge has ruled that the country’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), may continue its corruption investigation into a businessman who tried to halt the probe ...

A Federal High Court judge in Abuja, Justice Emeka Nwite, has ordered six banks to furnish the Inspector General (IG) of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, with information regarding some accounts linked to rights activists ...

An Upper Customary Court in Kaduna has ordered that a corpse wrongly buried in Fadiya, Zangon Kataf LGA of Kaduna State be exhumed and given a proper burial in accordance with the tradition and custom of Bajju ...

An Abuja High Court has ordered parties in the lingering ownership dispute at River Park Estate to maintain the status quo, halting further development activities on the contested land until the substantive issues ...

Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, on Monday signed into law the Local Council Development Areas (Creation & Administration) Bill, 2025, establishing 13 new Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) to ...

Justice Dehinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday ordered the final forfeiture of 245,568,137 shares, valued at over N5 billion, traced to a former Group Managing Director of Nigerian Army ...