The Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria has asked the embattled University of Lagos lecturer, Boniface Igbeneghu, to step down from all ministerial assignments in the local church. Mr Igbeneghu was exposed in a ...

The University of Lagos has suspended its lecturer who was involved in a sex-for-marks scandal. The lecturer was exposed in a video by BBC Africa where an undercover journalist, Kiki Mordi, disguised as a ...

The Federal High Court on Monday in Abuja reduced the conditions of the bail it granted a Nigerian journalist, Jones Abiri. The court presided over by Ijeoma Ojukwu had on June 24 granted Mr Abiri bail in the sum of ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed court papers to confiscate a number of properties traced to the embattled former Chairman of the Pension Reforms Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina. At the same ...

The Federal Government said it had directed its lawyers to seek the leave of the Court of Appeal to appeal the ruling of Justice Christopher Butcher of the Commercial Court in London that asked Nigeria to pay $200m ...

The Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested four officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Zamfara State. Administrative Secretary, Hassan ...

The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) has described the Department of State Security (DSS) as a notorious agency that enjoys treating judicial process with disdain, particularly as it pertains to obeying orders of ...

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has suspended indefinitely the interview for judicial officers into the bench of the Supreme Court. The Council’s Committee on Interview for Appointment of Judicial Officers ...

Federal High Court in Yola on Thursday sentenced a former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chairman, Binanu Esthon and Magistrate Shehu Mustapha, to three years in prison each for fraud. The Economic and Financial ...

Vanguard Newspapers, on 26th September 2019, apologised to the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof, Yemi Osibanjo, SAN, over the story published by the Newspaper on Monday, September 23, 2019, ...

The National Information Technology Agency (NITDA) has commenced investigation of Truecaller services over alleged breach of privacy rights of Nigerians. A statement by its chief executive and director-general, ...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, has made a new pledge that the judiciary under his watch would strongly uphold the tenets of the constitution as the highest law of the country. Legit.ng ...

The federal high court has struck out the application by the Department of State Services seeking to further detain the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore. This follows the withdrawal of the ...

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) last week reportedly picked up Ms Sarah A Omega Ajijola Esq, a lawyer and an NBA National Secretariat staff member who had worked closely with the Electoral ...

Irish firm, Process and Industrial Development (P&ID), yesterday described as fraudulent the ruling by the Federal High Court, Abuja, ordering the forfeiture of all its assets to the Federal Government. ...

The Nigeria Copyright Commission (NCC) says it has advanced strategic measures to check circulation of pirated books in the country. Mr John  Asein, the Director-General (DG) of the commission, disclosed this ...

The Federal High Court marked the commencement of its 2019/2020 Legal Year with a court session, where stakeholders again discussed the ills plaguing the Nigerian judiciary. There are over 100,000 cases currently ...

Obinwanne Okeke, the 31-year-old Nigerian held by American authorities for alleged fraud, entered a plea of not guilty to two counts of wire and computer fraud at his first hearing on Monday. The presiding judge at ...

The discussions between the Federal Government and the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council over the N30,000 national minimum wage ended in a deadlock again as both parties refused to shift ground. A ...

History was made at the just concluded Lawyers Table Tennis Open Mfon Usoro Cup  as Yetunde Martins knocked off seven time winner of the competition,, Titilayo Osagie, to clinch the title of female category of the ...