A federal high court sitting in Abuja has been asked to stop the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from fielding President Goodluck Jonathan and his deputy, Namadi Sambo as presidential and vice presidential candidates ...

MANY bills slated for deliberations, yesterday, at plenary in the House of Representatives were stalled due to the absence of lawmakers. This development came to the fore barely 72 hours after amending its standing ...

In a bid to launch an effective ombudsman for the country, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, yesterday, said that the Public Complainants Commission, PCC, as currently constituted and ...

Mr. Ahmed Raji, SAN, has said that the rise in acts of terrorism in Nigeria cannot be attributed to defects in the laws of the country. In a paper he delivered at the just concluded annual general conference of the ...

Human Rights Lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), on Wednesday urged the Nigerian elite to ensure they participate actively in politics by voting during the 2015 general elections. Falana made the appeal in Lagos while ...

A VALEDICTORY court session to honour the immediate past Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Philips, holds on September 23 at the State High Court Foyer, Igbosere, Lagos. Chief Registrar of Lagos State ...

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, led by the President, has continued to provide the requisite robust synergy for the seamless discharge of Council’s mandate  through its active representation  on the Council ...

AS a former branch chairman, what do you consider the greatest challenge in branch administration in the country? Basically, upon taking office, a lot of people, members will feel that there are some economic gains ...

Former chairman of Ikeja branch of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Monday Ubani, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to stop the execution of soldiers sentenced to death on Monday by the Army, through the power ...

ON the outcome of the  national conference, will you say that issues affecting the country were exhaustedly dealt with? When we started the conference, we just could not move forward. We did not go in-depth, time ...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, has written to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah, advocating an amendment of the Armed Forces ...

Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday night endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan as their sole candidate for the 2015 presidential election. The governors took the decision after their meeting, ...

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has refused to comment on the registration status of the private jet that was impounded by the South African Government on money laundering charges. When contacted on Wednesday, ...

The Senate on Wednesday urged all schools in Nigeria to take precautionary measures to contain the spread of the Ebola virus. The Senate also appealed to the African Union and the Economic Community of West African ...

A witness at the ongoing inquiry into the July 4 Ikorodu Road mayhem, Mr. Razak Mustapha, told the three-man panel on Wednesday that a female soldier sprayed the Bus Rapid Transit vehicles with petrol. Some BRT ...

Members of the House of Representatives flouted their resumption time for work on Wednesday, barely 24 hours after they adopted a new resumption time. The Speaker, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, other principal officers and ...

The Senate on Wednesday referred the nomination of Chima Nweze as Justice of the Supreme Court to its Committee on Judiciary for further scrutiny. Also, the nominations of Retired Capt. Mukhtar Usman as ...

Constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Femi Falana (SAN) yesterday implored the Army Council to commute the death sentence passed on 12 soldiers by the General Court Martial to imprisonment instead ...

Secretary to the Borno State Government, Ambassador Baba Jidda, has asked the former Governor of the state, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, to stop politicising allegation by Australian Stephen Davis that he (Sheriff) is ...

Contrary to claims by the Nigerian military, there is no respite for communities sacked by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states in the latest invasion of local government areas in those states by ...