Bashir Ahmad, Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, has recanted comments where he promised a Twitter user that he would intervene in changing the conviction of a child trafficker and rapist. The Federal High Court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, had sentenced Yunusa Dahiru
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, has warned lawyers and other members of the public against making “unguarded comments” on live cases still pending before various courts. Justice Onnoghen, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant (Media), Mr. Awassam Bassey, specifically expressed concern about comments in the media concerning the ongoing legal