Abacha’s Loot and the fight for peoples’ money
By : E Anaba Besides wars, disease, and violent militant groups, few forces have undermined law-based states in recent times as profoundly as corruption. Nowhere is its human cost more…
Chieftaincy matters and internal dispute mechanisms
By Moruff Balogun 1.0 INTRODUCTION Over the years, disputes arising from chieftaincy matters have remained a persistent feature of traditional governance in Nigeria. Owing to the deep historical, cultural, and…
Read before you rise: Avicenna, and the moral burden of advocacy
BY UJAH ISRAEL UJAH ESQ B/Phil, LLB, BL, LLM, There is a silent humiliation worse than losing a case. It is the humiliation of appearing before the court unprepared, armed…
National threat: El-Rufai’s absence in court stalls DSS arraignment
The bid by the Department of the State Services, DSS, to arraign the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, at the Federal High Court in Abuja on…
IGP must be shielded from politics before state police can work – Justice Ahiakwo
A constitutional lawyer and public affairs commentator, Justice Osai Ahiakwo, has warned that without insulating the Inspector-General of Police from political pressure, any move toward state-controlled policing may fail to…
Peter Obi assassination attempt: Did attackers wear APC uniforms – Edo APC asked ADC
The Edo State government has denied having a hand in the assassination attempt made at the former Labour party Presidential Candidate in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, former Governor of…
Oyewole gets apex gavel as new Supreme Court Justice
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has again reached its full Constitutional complement of 21 Justices following the swearing-in of Justice Joseph Olubunmi Kayode Oyewole as a new Justice of the…
Police corporal, bus conductor bags death sentence for kidnapping
An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a police corporal, Mbazigwe Chinedu Friday, and a bus conductor, Isaac Eddy Ndeesor, to death by hanging for the…
What Your Taxes Do
The complete modernisation of Terminal 1 at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos is a major project approved by Nigeria's Federal Executive Council in July 2025. It aims to overhaul…
Anambra boosts digital justice, LexTech trains court reporters in AI
Anambra State has accelerated the digital transformation of its judiciary following a strategic partnership between the state judiciary and ministry of justice with LexTech Ecosystem Limited to train 41 verbatim…