Tag: Supreme Court

The Rivers government under Governor Nyesom Wike had set up a judicial commission of inquiry to probe some transactions during ...

Mr Odili had in October 2016 sued Mr Peterside, demanding N6 billion as damages for character defamation.

Mr Amaechi had asked the Supreme Court to prohibit his successor, Governor Nyesom Wike from investigating his eight-year tenure as ...

Messrs Buhari and Malami filed their suit at the Supreme Court, seeking an interpretation of the controversial clause in the ...

"Nothing stops the office of the Auditor-General of the Federation, the ICPC and other investigatory agencies from opening the books ...

Only three of the 16 other registered political parties have elected officials but the minor parties want to challenge the ...

The Supreme Court fixed a new date for the hearing of the suit on validity of the controversial Section 84 ...

Messrs Buhari and Malami filed their suit at the Supreme Court, seeking an interpretation of the controversial clause in the ...

The members warned that the APC may lose election in the state if the party Chairman, Ade Adetimehin, remains in ...

Mary Peter-Odili retired from the Supreme Court bench after attaining the retirement age of 70 on Thursday.

Another faction of the APC loyal to a former governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, had been locked in a ...

The CJN told the new judges to brace up for the "impossible" from the Nigerian society, "especially as we approach ...

The pardon granted by Mr Buhari to former Governors Dariye and Nyame has been widely criticised as sabotaging the anti-corruption ...

Clearly, the Dariye/Nyame pardon dramatises the fact that regimes upbraid the venality of their predecessors, only for them to succumb ...

On several occasions, the Buhari-led administration has been criticised for granting soft landing to corrupt public officials.

“I try to keep my distance from you to avoid the perception of interference,” said the president.

Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame, convicted for corruption, were pardoned on health and age grounds when they still have several ...

The pension official, John Yusufu Yakubu, pleaded guilty to stealing N24 billion in the pension fund in 2013, but had ...

INEC had, on February 6, 2020, deregistered 74 political parties for failing to win any political office in the last ...

A community in Bayelsa State is suing Shell over May 17, 2018 oil leak from the oil firm’s Trans Ramos ...

The court says while it takes one-tenth of the proceeds of the fees paid by lawyers at the end of ...

The governor and the deputy governor listed eight grounds of appeal against the judgment of the lower court.

Mr Sanni narrated to the #EndSARS panel the emotional distress that came with his brother’s tragic death.

The panel was set up in October 2020 in the aftermath of the anti-police brutality #EndSARS protests that rocked many ...