Lagos Multidoor Court House Announces 1st Annual Multi-Door Courthouses and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Stakeholders Summit. See below: Looking to reshape the landscape of dispute resolution business ...

To ensure that Nigerians have access to legal services regardless of their financial or social status, the European Union (EU), in partnership with the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance ...

Chairman Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Aba Branch, Mr. Charles Onuchukwu, has said that the non appointment of judges and dilapidated court rooms are frustrating justice delivery in the state. He explained that the ...

The 2025 Annual Conference Planning Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is seeking input from legal professionals across the country to help shape the upcoming 2025 NBA Annual General Conference. In a ...

To enhance the judiciary’s credibility, address the growing issue of frivolous applications and aid quick dispensation of justice, the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Kazeem Alogba, has advocated greater ...

The first female Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mrs Folake Solanke has urged legal professionals to maintain high standards in the profession. The SAN gave the charge at the 64th yearly general conference of the ...

The  Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), President elect. Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, has set up a Transition Implementation Committee to work with the Transition Committee (TC) established by the outgoing NBA ...

NBA President, Mr. Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, OON, SAN’s notice dissolving all standing and ad-hoc committees set up by his administration as well as constituting the transition committee for his handover. ...

The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) has conferred the esteemed title of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) on 86 distinguished advocates and one academic, as announced on Thursday, August 1, 2024. ...

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 ...

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. ...