Osun State House of Assembly, has commenced the process of amending the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission and Local Government creation and Administration law. The move by the Assembly is coming following ...

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ben Kalu, has commended President Bola Tinubu for signing the South-east Development Commission (SEDC) Bill into law. President Tinubu signed the SEDC and the ...

The Kaduna State House of Assembly on Wednesday repealed the laws that established the Zaria Metropolitan Authority, Kafanchan Municipal Authority and the Kaduna Capital Territory Authority in 2021. The Speaker, ...

The House of Representatives has passed a bill that could extend the tenure of the current Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, beyond the dictates of the public service rules. The bill, sponsored by ...

The Enugu State Police Command has said it is in receipt of several publications alleging the abduction of an Abuja-based online news publisher, one Madu Onuorah. “The Command wishes to state that contrary to the ...

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 Chief Magistrate, Emmanuel Iyanna, while ruling on the bail application filed through his lawyer on Thursday struck out the case for lack of jurisdiction. A magistrate court in Abuja has struck out the case ...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Robert Clarke, has described the 1999 Constitution as the cornerstone of the nation’s problems. Clarke stated this on Tuesday while reacting to the truce reached as President Bola ...

The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the governor of Enugu state. A five-member panel of the court unanimously dismissed two appeals filed by the ...

An $11 billion damages bill against Nigeria for a collapsed gas processing project which was procured by bribery has been thrown out by London’s High Court, Reuters reported yesterday.The West African country was ...

The 11 Justices-designate of the Supreme Court who were cleared yesterday by the Senate will be sworn in next week, The Nation learnt yesterday. Sources said following the confirmation, the Senate will ...

A professional surety, Jude Okpala (a.k.a Stephen Ekpanisi), who aided a drug baron, Okpala Mathew Emmy, to escape from custody, was on Thursday convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment by a Federal High ...

A  Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the remand of an alleged WhatsApp hacker, Stephen Andrew Ojo, at the Ikoyi centre of the Nigerian Correctional Services. Justice Akintayo Aluko remanded the ...

An Ekiti State Chief Magistrate Court in Ado Ekiti has sentenced 58-year-old Nurudeen Ibrahim to five years imprisonment with hard labour for conspiracy, false pretence with intent to defraud and indecent assault. ...

A Magistrate’s Court sitting in the Yaba area of Lagos State has remanded two friends, Noah Tovohome and Rajay Zannu, to a correctional centre for allegedly plotting and killing their friend, Segun Zusu, over 36 ...

Justice Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan, on Thursday, convicted and sentenced the Chief Executive Officer of Crime Alert Security Network, Ibadan, Olaniyan Gbenga Amos, to 75 years ...

An Ondo State High Court, sitting in Akure, on Monday, sentenced six people to two years imprisonment for violence and breach of peace in the coastal community of Ayetoro in Ilaje Local Government Area of the state. ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Monday, December 18, affirmed Ahmadu Fintiri as governor of Adamawa state. It also upheld the judgment of the Adamawa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal that ...

AFederal High Court in Abuja has restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting bye-election to replace 27 Rivers Assembly members who defected to APC. On December 11, the ...

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja has issued an order to freeze the accounts of the Oyo state government in ten commercial banks across the country. The order was issued by ...