Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has narrated how an official of the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Ikot Ekpene, Enobong Phillip Eyoren, assaulted and tortured him while in the facility. Inibehe disclosed this today in a series of tweet via his…
Tukur Mamu, a Nigerian publisher involved in the negotiation that led to the release of some of the hostages abducted by terrorists in the March 2022 attack on Abuja to Kaduna train was on Wednesday arrested by operatives of Department…
Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu has said the Federal Government is considering an upward review of the salary of tertiary institutions’ lecturers to 23.5 per cent. The minister said salaries of professors would also be reviewed by 35 per…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Tuesday, sentenced a 26-year-old lawyer, Yetunde Sulaimon, to five years imprisonment, for drug trafficking. Justice Daniel Osiagor handed down the sentence to the convict, who studied law from one of the Benin…
A civil society organisation (CSO), Network of University Legal Aid Institutions (NULAI- Nigeria) has commenced monitoring of cases in Magistrate Courts in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. NULAI- Nigeria said it is worried that many people are still in…
Human rights activist and lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Assembly and Controller General of Prisons before a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, for failing to provide monitoring devices, close circuit television, CCTV,…
Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State, has sworn in Justice Hapsat Abdurrahman as the Acting Chief Judge of the state. Justice Hapsat being the most senior judge in the state succeeded Justice Nathan Musa who retired last week. Speaking…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has granted bail to the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, in the sum of ₦300 million with two sureties in like sum. Justice Daniel Osiagor on Tuesday…
Federal government has secured an arrest database where records of arrests by all security agencies are to be henceforth stored to facilitate quick filing of charges and prosecution of offenders on federal offences. Section 29 of the Administration of Criminal…
The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Yakubu Maikyau (SAN), has inaugurated a 15-member committee to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the sad incident of Tuesday, August 23rd when lawyers broke into the pavilion for the distribution…