Stakeholders lament widows’ abuse amid existing legal safeguards
Despite constitutional safeguards and extant laws against discrimination, women in Nigeria have continued to face dispossession, eviction, harmful traditional practices and social stigma following the deaths of their husbands, stakeholders…
South African rights group demands Abuja building collapse probe, prosecution
A South Africa-based human rights organisation, the Human Rights Association (HRA), has called on the Federal Government to launch an independent, transparent and time-bound investigation into the collapse of a…
Awaiting trial kept over 500 inmates languishing in Zamfara Correctional Centers – NHRC
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has lamented that no fewer than 500 inmates are currently languishing in Zamfara State Correctional Centres without trial, demanding judicial authorities expedite action to ensure…
Housing delivery: Group advocates stakeholder partnerships
A Group Cooperative Housing Summit Africa, has advocated the adoption of Public-Private-People Partnerships (4Ps) in the built environment to guarantee large-scale and effective delivery of affordable housing across the country.…
Firm calls for stronger regulation of Nigeria’s off-plan property market
A law firm has called for stronger regulatory safeguards in Nigeria’s off-plan real estate sector, warning that weak oversight continues to expose property buyers to fraud, project abandonment, and financial…
Arrest warrant against Sadiya Farouq over alleged $1.3m fraud still effective
Hon. Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, Abuja, on Monday sustained the arrest warrant earlier issued against former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Umar Farouq.…
Onwubiko petitions NBA-BoT over alleged irregularities in 2026 ECNBA candidate qualification process
Alleges candidate who did not submit expression of interest was smuggled into qualified list A Nigerian legal practitioner, Tosan Barbara Onwubiko, Esq., Lead Partner of toSAN Legals, has filed a…
How passport was allegedly forged in Ozekhome, Useni London property trial —EFCC Forensic Examiner tells court
A forensic examiner told the FCT High Court in Abuja on Monday that a passport bearing the name Tali Shani, presented in a London property ownership case involving senior lawyer…
Anambra Assembly denies passing New Burial Law
Says reports on midweek burials ban misleading The Anambra State House of Assembly has denied reports that it passed a new law regulating funeral rites and banning the presentation of…
EFCC boss orders apology to doctors over Uyo Hospital invasion
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has directed that an apology be extended to Professor Eyo Ekpe and members of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA)…