Tag: Supreme Court
2021 SAN rank applicants to pay N.6m non-refundable processing fee
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) has called for applications for the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria for year 2021.
Each applicant, according to...
IGP asks Supreme Court to halt nullification of 10, 000 recruited...
The inspector general of police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, has filed an appeal at Supreme Court praying it to stop the execution of the judgement...
Sagay, Falana dismayed at nullification of Kalu’s N7.1bn fraud conviction
The chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay, and Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana have expressed dismay at the...
Supreme Court dismisses Zamfara APC’s request to review judgement
Awards N280m against applicants
The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an application asking
it to review its judgement which nullified the victory of the candidates of the
All...
Between justice and transgression
Chidi Amuta
The law needs to be decked out like a trans-vestite, in
female drapery so as to conceal its unlovely phallus.
–––Edmund Burke
The Nigerian Supreme Court...
COVID-19: And here we go again…
Olusegun Adeniyi
“From 1 January through 9 February 2020, 472 laboratory
confirmed cases including 70 deaths have been reported in 26 out of 36 Nigerian
states and...
Justice Nweze’s dissenting judgment a glimmer of hope for judiciary –...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as “a glimpse of hope for our nation’s judiciary”
the dissenting judgment by Justice Chima Centus Nweze...
Supreme Court dismisses Ihedioha’s appeal to reverse his ouster as governor
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed an application by Mr. Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to upturn its January 14, 2020...
Supreme Court adjourns hearing Ihedioha’s application for reversal of sack
The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned hearing in the application by the former governor of Imo State, Mr. Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic...
When judges become our electoral college
Olusegun Adeniyi
While blaming the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)
National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for “the problems associated with
candidates’ selection process” in the party, the...