Nigerian inmates in Kaliti prison, a maximum-security prison in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, have again called on the government to facilitate their transfer to prisons in Nigeria. The inmates are pleading to be allowed to ...

AFederal High Court in Abuja has discharged former Imo Governor Senator Rochas Okorocha and six others from a N3billion fraud charge brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes ...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Olukayode Ariwoola has stated Nigeria requires the services of judges who are God fearing and guided solely by their conscience and the law. Ariwoola said: ...

ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke and Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has advised the Academic Staff Union of Universities to stop directing its ...

Usifo Ataga murder trial stalled again, as prosecution fails to bring witness The trial of an undergraduate, Chidinma Ojukwu, for the murder of Usifo Ataga, the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV on Thursday was ...

Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has dragged the Federal Government to court to seek release from the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, The PUNCH has learnt. Kyari, in his suit ...

An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court sitting at Isabo, Ogun State, on Thursday, ordered that four teenagers who allegedly murdered a 20-year -old girl, Sofiat Kehinde, be remanded in prison for two months. The ...

Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has dismissed preliminary objection filed by Saipem Contracting Nigeria Limited and others, on the jurisdiction of the court to ...

A witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Rukkayat Ibrahim, on Wednesday in Abuja admitted that the offences for which a former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, was ...

The N2.2bn fraud trial of a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, resumed on Monday before the Federal High Court in Lagos, with a bank official narrating how his bank in 2014 moved a cash sum of N1.2bn to ...

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Sunday, taunted those who have been criticising labour unions for suspending the industrial action earlier declared to protest the recent ...

he Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed December 15, 2020,  to hear a suit praying for the reversal of the ban placed by the Lagos State Government on the operations of commercial motorcycles and tricycles, ...

Organised Labour represented by the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress has given reasons for shelving its planned nationwide strike and protests. It made this known in a joint communique obtained by ...

Hike in electricity tariff to be suspended for 2 weeks, while new pump price of petrol remain unchanged. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have suspended the planned nationwide ...

The leadership of the House of Representatives on Sunday intensified efforts to avert the much-touted nationwide strike by the organized labour who insisted of going ahead as there was a subsisting court judgement ...

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has written a letter to the Presidential panel probing the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu. ...

The Head of Payroll Department at the Federal Medical Centre, Bida, Niger State, Sadiq Sadiq, has been arraigned before Justice Abdullahi Mika’ilu of High Court 4 sitting in Minna, Niger State, for allegedly ...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, on Monday swore in 11 judges for the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The inauguration ceremony, which took place at the Supreme Court in ...

The Chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, on Sunday, said the regional security outfit, Operation Amotekun, was not targeted at any non-Yoruba ethnic group. ...

Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ado Ekiti chapter, has said the South West governors have not breached any section of the 1999 Constitution for establishing a security network, codenamed: Operation Amotekun. This ...