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Renowned human rights lawyer and former Chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu, has reacted sharply to former President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent statement about his financial situation. Buhari, speaking at an All Progressives Congress (APC) caucus meeting in Katsina on January 25, revealed that he sustains himself through rental income from one of […]

The Nigerian Law School’s official website, which had been inaccessible for several weeks, is now back online, much to the relief of recent law graduates, prospective students, and other stakeholders. The website, [https://www.nigerianlawschool.edu.ng/], had been displaying a “Service Unavailable HTTP Error 503” message, leaving users unable to access critical information or services. The prolonged downtime […]Read More

Brazil’s government has condemned the President Donald Trump-led administration after dozens of immigrants deported from the United States arrived by plane in handcuffs, calling it a “flagrant disregard” for their rights. The government said on Saturday that it would demand an ‘explanation’ from the United States. This is coming after President Trump’s order on border […]

Nigerian music legend Innocent Idibia, better known as 2Baba, has refuted earlier claims that his Instagram account was hacked. In a video posted on his Instagram story on Sunday night, 2Baba confirmed that a controversial post about his separation from his wife, Annie Idibia, was indeed made by him. The original post, which announced the […]

Justice Akintayo Aluko of a Federal High Court, Lagos, has awarded a total sum of N2,973.000.000 billion, against Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria Limited, for negligence. The judge awarded the sum in favour of a company, Celplas Industries Nigeria Limited, a defendant/counterclaimant, while delivering judgment in a suit marked FHC/L/CS/1187/2020. Standard Chartered Bank through it’s lawyers […]Read More

Prominent legal practitioner Jibrin Samuel Okutepa, SAN, has voiced strong opposition to the idea of decentralizing Nigeria’s Supreme Court, citing risks of conflicting decisions and the potential harm to the country’s jurisprudence. In a series of tweets, Okutepa explained that the challenges facing the Supreme Court are not structural but procedural, arguing that decentralization would […]

US President Donald Trump has said he will impose 25% tariffs and sanctions on Colombia after its president barred two US military planes carrying deported migrants from landing in the country. Trump said the emergency tariffs “on all goods” coming into the US from Colombia would be put in place “immediately”, and in one week […]

Nigerian music legend, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Baba, has disowned an earlier announcement about his separation from his wife, actress Annie Macaulay-Idibia, which was posted on his Instagram account, saying his account was hacked. The singer addressed the issue in a statement shared on his Instagram account on Sunday, reassuring his fans that the […]

A former Chairman of the Ikorodu Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Bayo Akinlade Esq, has raised an alarm over what he describes as the unethical conduct of a Lagos State government lawyer in using the police to detain a private citizen over an unpaid loan. In a statement titled “NBA/LPDC: What Are We […]

A member of the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), Musiliu Obanikoro, has strongly criticized the statement made by his colleague, Anthony Adefuye, expressing support for the impeached Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa. In the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, the highest decision-making body is the GAC. The council was […]

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has described the Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adeyemo Adejugbe’s order for the the dissolution of the Ekiti State Shari’ah Panel as a violation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The order was given on Saturday, 25th January, 2025, after the monarch summoned the Chief Imam […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the government of President Bola Tinubu over “the arbitrary, unconstitutional, unlawful, unfair, and unreasonable 50 percent telecom tariff hike by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).” Joined in the suit as Defendant is the NCC. The NCC had recently approved a 50 percent hike in telecom […]