A former Chairman of Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State, Mr. Afolabi Mabogunje, was yesterday docked before an Akure Magistrate Court for illegal possession of firearms. Also docked alongside the ex-council ...

Apart from the endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan as the sole presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2015 presidential election, the president  has more hurdles to scale  as ...

A member of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja against  the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke, for refusing  to give ...

Ghana and Ivory Coast are heading to a United Nations tribunal to resolve a dispute over the maritime boundary separating the two oil-producing nations, Ghana’s attorney general said on Thursday. The maritime ...

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 ...

THE Senate has begun moves aimed at permanently banning the manufacturing, consumption and promotion of tobacco in Nigeria. But the development generated controversies among senators, yesterday, during debate on a ...

Two members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, have approached the Federal High Court in Abuja to declare that President Goodluck Jonathan is ineligible to seek re-election. In the ...

Former Senate President Ameh Ebute, on Wednesday filed an appeal against the execution of six of the 12 soldiers condemned to death by the Military Tribunal, which tried and found them guilty of mutiny. Ebute, a ...

THE past week has not been a fine one for the rightwing Pentecostal Christian movement in Nigeria. And by extension, the moral burden of Nigeria’s  ruling class and all our compatriots who swear loyalty to these ...

THE issue of how much disclosure is healthy for the citizenry has been a matter for public debate. For instance, if, in a war situation, the President of a nation suddenly became blind and unable to manage the ...

I Was among the 21 persons, working to promote the enjoyment of human rights across the world, that were invited by the United States Department of State to participate in a two-week International Visitors ...

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 ...

For the second time this week, pandemonium reigned in the House of Representatives, yesterday, following allegations of a $50,000 bribe to members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to suppress a house inquest ...

TWO groups; the International Society for Social Justice and Human Rights and the Grassroots Development Initiative, have disagreed over the forceful opening of the main gate to the Rivers State High Court by the ...

The Ekiti State Governor-elect, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has approached the Court of Appeal, Ado-Ekiti, to challenge the powers of the Ekiti State High Court to hear a case challenging his eligibility to contest the June ...

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria has urged the members of the National Assembly to unite and investigate the $9.3m in the custody of the South African authorities. In a statement on Wednesday, the union noted ...

The Nigerian Bar Association has condemned the Monday invasion of the Ekiti State High Court, Ado-Ekiti by some people described by the state Peoples Democratic Party as angry voters. They attacked the court after ...

There was drama at the House of Representatives on Wednesday as the legislature ordered an investigation into the allegation that some lawmakers were given $50,000 to stall the debate on the controversial $9.3m ...

Power outage at the premises of the Ikeja High Court on Wednesday stalled the trial of a former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Francis Atuche. Atuche and his wife, Elizabeth, are standing trial over alleged theft of ...