Central Bank Ex-Governor Emefiele Arraigned In Court For Printing N684million Notes With N18.96billion

Emefiele who is currently standing trial on two different criminal charges, was arraigned for the 3rd criminal charge on Wednesday. The Nigerian government has initiated another criminal charge against the former ...

NDIC, NJI partner on judiciary deposit insurance training

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) says  building strong depositors’ confidence in banks and other financial institutions will ensure continuous safety and soundness in the financial system. Mr. ...

The Nigerian Bar Association has condemned the recent agreement to allow United Kingdom Attorneys to practice in Nigeria. The NBA President, Yakubu Maikyau (SAN), in an email to lawyers of the Nigerian Bar ...

N8billion Fraud: Anti-Graft Agency EFCC To Arraign Former Aviation Minister Sirika, Brother Tuesday

In January, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, had revealed that the EFCC was investigating the controversial Nigeria Air deal sealed by Sirika. The Economic and Financial Crimes ...

Court refuses to set aside restraining injunction on properties

Justice Dorcas Taiwo Oladokun of a Lagos High Court, Ikeja has refused to set aside an interlocutory injunction, restraining Mrs Titilayo Adeduntan Cole from selling or leasing properties situated at 27 Obafemi ...

NBA-SBL urges legal community’s participation at yearly conference

The Nigerian Bar Association, Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) has called on the legal community and others to register to participate in its 18th yearly law conference. According to the group, legal professionals ...

Suit against Institute, president for hearing May 27

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has fixed May 27 for the hearing of a suit filed by Marketing Edge Publications Limited against the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria over alleged threat and harassment ...

Convict not in our custody, NCoS official tells court

.. As court fixes June 17 for ruling Representative of the Controller of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS), Lagos Command, Mr. Rotimi Oladokun has told Justice Akintunde Salvage of a Lagos High Court sitting ...

N84.2Billion Fraud: Nigerian Court Restates Order For Arrest Of Former Kogi Governor, Yahaya Bello

The court agreed with the EFCC’s counsel, Dr Kemi Pinheiro (SAN) and restated the order it made on April 17, which directed security agencies to arrest and produce him before it to answer for the 19 counts ...

BREAKING: Nigerian Court of Appeal In Kano Reduces Bala’s 24-Year Blasphemy Sentence To Five Years

He made the headlines in 2020 when he was arrested at his residence in Kaduna over alleged blasphemy and incitement. A Court of Appeal in Kano State has reduced the 24-year sentence given to an atheist, Mubarak Bala ...

A Lagos High Court has awarded N25 million in favour of Nollywood actor and film maker, Femi Adebayo for the unlicensed use of his film ‘Jelili’ by a video streaming channel. The actor revealed this on his ...

We ‘ll not Interfere With Judicial Decisions- Sokoto Attorney General

SOKOTO: Sokoto state Athoney general and commissioner of Justice Nasiru Mohammed Binji has said that, the 2024 law week is full of activities that Will offer members of the bar and the bench opportunity to take ...

The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice and Public Order in Benue State, Barr. Fidelis Mnyim has stated that the cars gifted to the judiciary by the state Governor, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia do not erode the ...

Bill to raise judges’ pay scales second reading

A bill seeking an increment in the salaries and allowances of judges at all levels passed the second reading in the Senate on Thursday. The bill was considered following a lead debate by the Deputy Majority Leader, ...

After 13 years of litigation, a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has dismissed a case of alleged malicious prosecution filed against the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) The case was filed by a movie ...

Court orders Indian nationals to pay octogenarian N98m, $325,000

A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered three Indian nationals to pay the sum of N98.2m and an additional $325,000 to an 87-year-old businessman, Isaac Oginni, for breach of fair hearing and the clear provisions ...

A consortium of lawyers under the aegis of Guardians of Democracy and Rule of Law, on Friday, urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to follow due process in its bid to prosecute the immediate ...

Lawyers interrogate EFCC’s power to prosecute naira abusers

The arraignment of naira abusers in recent times by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has sparked debate among legal practitioners as to whether abusing the nation’s currency constitutes an economic and ...

Court refuses to relist Obasanjo’s N1bn suit against Punch

Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court has declined the request of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to relist an earlier dismissed N1bn defamation suit against Punch newspaper. The ...

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 ...