The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has accused Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, of bias in his...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has suspended two judges, Justice G.C. Aguma of the Rivers State High Court and Justice A.O. Nwabunike of the Anambra State...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has set up four probe panels to investigate 27 high court judges in the country over alleged misconduct. The NJC Director...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun to be the next Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). The NJC’s recommendation was made in an...
Nigeria’s Senate passed a bill on Wednesday granting a 300% pay rise for the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and all other judicial officers in the...
The Nigerian House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary has summoned the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, and the Chairman of the Revenue Mobilization Allocation...
Nigeria’s National Judicial Council (NJC) has issued a stern warning to retired judges following a surge in reported pension scams. According to the NJC, fraudsters are...
The National Judicial Council (NJC), on Friday, said no date has been fixed for the swearing-in of the newly appointed 11 Justices of the Supreme Court....
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended the compulsory retirement of a judge in the Osun State High Court Justice S. O. Falola. The NJC’s Director...
The National Judicial Council (NJC), on Thursday, said it was not aware of the shortlist of 22 justices made by the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC)...
The Ondo State House of Assembly has filed a complaint against Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja, at the National Judicial Council (NJC)...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has dismissed petitions against a retired Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili, and 25 other judicial officers in the country. The NJC...
The National Judicial Council, (NJC), has sacked the Chief Judge of Taraba State, Justice F. B. Andetur, and mandated him to vacate his office with immediate...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has ordered the immediate reinstatement of Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia as a judge of the Federal High Court. The court’s Chief Judge,...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has issued “Policy Directions” to heads of courts around the country on political and election-related disputes. Soji Oye, a spokesman for...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday resolved to appeal the court judgement which ordered the federal government to delete Section 84 from the Electoral Act. The...
Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has sworn in his second wife, Patience Zuofa-Diri, and three other legal practitioners as High Court judges in the state....
The last may not have been heard about the leadership crisis rocking Bauchi State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the faction believed to...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended the appointment of 64 judges to their respective state governors for appointment as judicial officers in the country. The...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has barred three judges from promotion for granting conflicting exparte court orders. The council also warned the affected judges to be...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has said the current inflation in the country was affecting the administration of justice. The Executive Secretary, NJC, Ahmed Saleh, stated...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has announced the candidature of 37 new judicial officers to head various courts in the country and the federal capital territory....
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has set up a probe panel to investigate three High Court Judges for issuing conflicting ex-parte orders on the same subject...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) on Saturday alerted Nigerians on a fake advertisement for an ongoing recruitment exercise in the Council. The NJC Director of Information,...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended the appointment of 26 judges to President Muhammadu Buhari and some state governors. The NJC spokesman, Soji Oye, who...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended the compulsory retirement of two judges for alleged age falsification. The judges are – the Grand Kadi of Yobe...
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has called on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to sack Justice Okon Abang to save the bench from national...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has faulted the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to forward the names of 11 lawyers nominated for appointment as judges...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended for appointment as Supreme Court justices four judges including two members of last year’s presidential election petition tribunal that...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended the appointment of 22 judicial officers for both federal and states courts. The council’s Director of Information, Mr. Soji...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) on Tuesday approved the appointment of six new High Court judges for Kano State. The Public Relations Officer of the Kano...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday sent a petition to the National Judicial Council (NJC) in protest against a Judge of the Federal High Court,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to reject the 33 candidates recommended by the National Judicial Council (NJC) for appointment as High Court judges of the...
Urgent practical strategic measures to ensure courts continue to function despite the COVID-19 lockdown has been recommended by a 10-man committee set up by the Chief...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended two judges for compulsory retirement with immediate effect. The Director of Information at NJC, Soji Oye, said in a...
Two High Court judges have been recommended by the National Judicial Council for compulsory retirement over alleged age falsification and failure to deliver judgement for four...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has set up a 10-member committee to fashion out ways courts could sit amid measures to contain Covid-19 spread. Lockdown and...
A legal practitioner, Andrew Emwanta, has petitioned the National Judicial Council (NJC) over the ruling of Justice Lewis Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Kano, over-ruling...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) on Thursday recommended the appointment of six heads of court and 26 judicial officers for various state High Courts in the...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has empaneled eight committees to investigate petitions against eight judges out of 35 petitions written against 37 judges. The council dismissed...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has thrown out a petition against Justice Akon Ikpeme, of allegations of collecting bribe to deliver judgement in favour of Senator...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, to immediately stop the use of the court to...
Worried by the decision of Justice Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja to grant bail to the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore,...
Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, one of justices of the Supreme Court accused of corruption in 2016 has returned to the apex court bench. The Justice, who is...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has confirmed President Muhammadu Buhari’s acceptance of former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen’s voluntary retirement. NJC’s Director of Information,...
A judge of the Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Ineikade Eradiri, has withdrawn from the ongoing trial of a former Bayelsa Security Adviser, Perekeme...
The end maybe in sight in the face-off between the Kogi State government and judiciary staff in the state, as a delegation from the National Judicial...
President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the appointment of Tanko Muhammad as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) by another three months following the recommendations of...
Counsel to the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, has described Thursday’s judgment as unconstitutional and premeditated, adding that it was in breach of his...
Less than 48 hours after the National Judicial Council (NJC) transmitted its investigative report to President Muhammadu Buhari, the embattled suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter...
