The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has re-arraigned three men before an Ikeja Special Offences Court for alleged theft of goods valued at over N85,503,409.00. The ...

President Bola Tinubu returned to the National Assembly and requested that lawmakers increase the proposed 2025 budget from N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion. The Nigerian Constitution grants the National Assembly ...

The Senior Magistrate, Aminu Sani, presiding over Magistrate Court II in Gusau, Zamfara State, has issued an arrest warrant for two Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) personnel who absconded from ...

Gov. Dikko Radda of Katsina State has signed the 2025 budget of N692.2 billion into law. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor submitted NN682,244,449,513,87 to the state assembly for ...

Paradigm Initiative (PIN), a pan-African organisation and thought leader in digital rights and inclusion space, has stressed the need for government agencies that are in possession of the data of Nigerian citizens ...

Jigawa state Governor, Malam Umar Namadi, on Monday, signed the Jigawa State Electricity Commission Regulatory bill into law as part of the state government’s efforts to enhance electricity regulation and access ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has approved the extension of court processes in a suit against President Bola Tinubu, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, Senate President, Senator Godswill ...

into law to prohibit illegal organ harvesting. The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Lawal Pedro (SAN), announced on Thursday at the Ministry of Justice in Alausa, Ikeja, that the newly signed laws, ...

The law firm of Afe Babalola has submitted a petition to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee seeking the removal of Dele Farotimi, a lawyer and human rights activist, from the roll of Nigerian legal ...

The Labour Party (LP), on Thursday, vowed to take legal action against six members of the House of Representatives who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The party maintains that these ...

Justice Ayokunle Faji of a Federal High Court, Lagos has awarded damages of N10 million, against Access Bank Plc, for the illegal and unlawful freezing of the accounts of one of its customers. The judge described ...

The Senate has passed for second reading, a bill seeking to establish the Federal University of Science and Technology, Okorokorisei in Bayelsa. The institute, if established, will focus on teaching and research in ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has ruled against a judgement barring the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from releasing monthly federal allocations to Rivers State. In a split ruling on Friday, two of the ...

The Lagos State Government has signed into law, a new bill titled ‘Human Organ and Tissue Transplantation Bill’ to prohibit illegal organ harvesting in the state. Justice Lawal Pedro, the Lagos State Attorney ...

The Adamawa State House of Assembly has denied claims that its newly passed law for the creation of additional chiefdoms is designed to remove the Lamido of Adamawa as chairman of the state’s traditional council. ...

Non-Governmental Organisations known as ‘Hope Alive for Possibilities Initiative’ and ‘Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities’ in Benue State have called on the State Assembly to expedite ...

The Nigeria Tax Bill (from now on referred to as the NTB) is a comprehensive piece of legislation that seeks to outline all taxes in the country hitherto administered by different laws and compress them into a ...

Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has granted an interim order restraining the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) from demanding N60 billion from Facebook Nigeria over alleged ...

Rapper T.I. has filed a defamation lawsuit against Sabrina Peterson, more than three years after she made explosive allegations against him, including a claim that he once held a gun to her head. In newly obtained ...

Festus Keyamo, the minister of aviation and aerospace development, has proposed the ‘Fly Nigeria Act’ to empower domestic operators and grow the country’s aviation sector. Keyamo unveiled the proposed Act ...