An Abuja based Human Rights Lawyers, Barrister Victor Giwa, has written the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, over allegation of assassination attempt against him. The lawyer in a petition to the AGF and the IGP dated June 19, 2024, which he personally signed, said […]
Prominent human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong has called on the federal government to refrain from interfering in the controversy surrounding the emirship dispute in Kano. Effiong stressed that the authority to resolve emirship disputes and appoint an Emir lies solely with the kingmakers and the Governor of Kano State. In a strongly-worded statement released via […]
A 42-year-old lawyer, Kunle Ologundudu, was on Thursday arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, for failing to produce a suspect he stood surety for, in a case of alleged property damage valued at N2bn. Ologundudu, whose address was not given, is standing trial on a two-count charge of conspiracy and attempt to pervert […]
A lawyer to President Bola Tinubu, Wole Afolabi, has revealed why the certificate of the President indicates ‘F’ meant for a female. According to Afolabi, a mixup at Chicago State University (CSU) is the reason President Tinubu’s certificate indicates female. Afolabi made this claim during an interview on Channels TV on Friday. Naija News understands […]
A Chief Magistrate Court 1 siting at the Life Camp area of Abuja has found Mohammed Tsav, the son of a former Lagos state Commissioner of Police and chieftain of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Abubakar Tsav, guilty of rent default of N3 million. Consequent upon the judgement, the court Mohammed, who is also a […]
Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer to leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who was declared wanted by the Nigerian police, has reacted by calling on International community for thorough investigations. He called on the international community to investigate the killings and burning of his home in Oraifite, Ekwusigo local government area of […]
Abuja – Mr Anthony Agbonlahor, an Abuja-based constitutional lawyer, says the recent call for the obedience to court orders made by Justice Tanko Mohammmed, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) came at the appropriate time. He said that the CJN had to speak up to help steer Nigeria’s hard earned democracy in the right direction […]
An Ilorin based lawyer, Kunle Suleiman has said the call on the presidency by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki to institute an inquiry into the death of key suspect in the Offa robbery is unlawful. Speaking with Daily Times, in Ilorin, Kwara state, Suleiman who is an Ilorin man like Saraki said the Senate […]
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The controversy surrounding the authority of policemen and other security agents to randomly search people’s belongings has always excite heated discussion in Nigeria. Policemen take it for granted these days that they have the right to randomly accost people on the road and demand for their mobile phones, laptops and other communication devices to search […]
The planned trial of a senior lawyer, Rickey Tarfa (SAN), before an Igbosere High Court, Lagos was on Tuesday stalled as the defense could not opened its case, due to the absence of witnesses. Justice Adedayo Akintoye had on the last adjourned date on February 9, 2018, dismissed A no case submission filed by Rickey […]
Eric Omare, a lawyer, is one of the two persons laying claim to the Presidency of the umbrella body of Ijaw Youths, the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), has offered legal and moral reasons why he is the authentic President of the body, insisting that he was duly elected in accordance with the law guiding the […]
A Lagos- based lawyer, Festus Keyamo SAN, on Wednesday, decried the politicisation of the probe of suspended Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr. Mounir Haliru Gwarzo. Keyamo urged the two anti-graft agencies and the panel of inquiry set up by the minister of finance to be “firm, fair, decisive and not […]
Justice Ahmed R. Mohammad of the Federal High Court in Maitama Abuja on Wednesday fixed December 11, 2017 to decide whether or not a prosecution witness that was declared hostile by the prosecution counsel Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) can be cross – examined to clarify his own contradictory evidence. The witness, Abubakar Umar the owner of […]
Wale Ogunade, a lawyer and human rights activist is the president, Voters Awareness Initiative, Lagos. In this Interview with INIOBONG IWOK assesses the electoral process in the country and the increasing voter apathy in the country. Your group, Voters Awareness Initiative, is a non-governmental organisation (NGO), how does it operate? The NGO is a membership […]
A legal luminary, Barrister Marc Enamhe has said that President Muhammadu Buhari lacked legal power to sack the Acting Director, Ministry of Interior, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, no matter the offence committed rather he should have been subjected to necessary rules and regulations as enshrined in the civil service rules. Barrister Enamhe told Daily Times on […]
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) does not benefit the company’s relationship with its employees and consumers alone, but it is also an important element in corporate strategy. However, CSR theory has ignored the implications of differences in government. Most studies on CSR in Nigeria is typically characterized as being individualistic. The governing philosophy promotes individual freedom […]
Francesca Iwambe- Abuja Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lawyer representing the self acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has dragged the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Gen Tukur Buratai, to court praying for an order to compel him to produce Kanu in court on his next trial date. In the originating […]
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, on Wednesday, said the prevalence of fake lawyers in the country was adversely eroding the integrity of the legal profession. He also said fake lawyers were casting a shadow of disrepute upon legal practitioners. Mohammed, who said this in an address he delivered at […]