The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, has called on Nigerians to report any judge suspected to be corrupt or involved in other unprofessional...
A judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Adeniyi Ademola who was recently discharged of corruption charges has written to the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN)...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has extended by three months the acting tenure of Walter Onnoghen as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and has officially written...
Two judges, Ugbo Ononogbo and Nasir Gummi, of the Abia State and Zamfara State High courts in that order, have been recommended for compulsory retirement by...
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has called on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to immediately sack Justice Okon Abang. He said that a judge who gives...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has described four petitions filed against Justice Okon Abang of Abuja Federal High Court over alleged acts of judicial misconduct as...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Mahmud Mohammed, disclosed on Monday that the decision to suspend the seven judges accused of corruption was sequel to the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed the promotion of Justices Ejembi Eko and Amina Augie to the Supreme Court bench. Acting Director, Information, Nigeria Judicial Council (NJC),...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to learn from the example of how to fight corruption from the National Judicial Council (NJC)....
The National Judicial Council (NJC) on Thursday succumbed to calls by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and some other Nigerians that the seven judges accused of...
Two embattled Supreme Court judges accused of corruption Iyang Okoro and Sylvester Ngwuta, have stepped down, it has been leant. The two judges who were among...
By Joseph Edgar… This is like a bad movie. The judiciary is crumbling. What has this generation of players done to the judiciary? They have brought...
Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has asked President Muhammadu Buhari and the Director-General of the Department of State Service (DSS) Mr. Lawal Daura, to...
Lagos lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, has insisted that judges arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS, should be suspended. Falana, in a statement on...
Femi Falana… Two weeks ago, the Nigerian Bar Association had cause to condemn the nocturnal raid on the official quarters of seven judges including two members...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has in its bid to bring sanity into Nigeria judiciary inaugurated a 10-man Judicial Ethics Committee. The committee which is headed...
The dust raised by the arrest of some judges by the Department of State Security Services [DSS] is yet to settle as the National Judicial Council...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) on Friday said asking the judges accused of corruption to recuse or proceed on compulsory leave without probe would mean violation...
Nine days after an emergency meeting on the arrests of some of its judges nationwide, the National Judicial Council (NJC) has said although judges have no...
The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has advocated for the suspension of judges arrested and detained by the Department of State Services, DSS. The PACAC...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Barring justice in heaven, judiciary use to be one place in Nigeria where people get relative reprieve. Our lawyers and judges were...
A N50billion suit has been filed against President Muhammadu Buhari, the Department of State Services (DSS) and its Director-General, Lawal Daura, by Mr Olukoya Ogungbeje, a...
Still trying to come to terms with the recent raid on judges by the Department of State Services (DSS), the Nigerian Judicial Commission (NJC) now has...
By Sonala Olumhense… Finally, Nigeria last week got around to the touchy subject of taking the filthy wigs off corrupt members of the judiciary and calling...
More revelations have emerged over the raid on judges residences across the country and their eventual arrest and detention. According to reports emanating from the Department...
By Okey Ndibe… Last week, agents of the Department of State Security (DSS) carried out a series of commando-style raids at the residences of numerous justices,...
By Taju Tijani… Talking heads, chattering lawyers and social media highways were set ablaze when it was revealed that judges were ambushed, shocked and awed by...
The National Judicial Council, NJC has accused the Department of State Services, DSS, of trying to intimidate and cow the judiciary with the raid on the...
Smarting from the raid on the homes of judges and their arrest, the House of Representatives, Thursday, intensified the process of reducing the powers of the...
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Thursday, faulted claims by the Department of State Services that there were complaints or petitions against the judges arrested in a...
Cafter meeting for two days in Abuja. They extended the meeting to a third day — today. The council is one of the federal executive bodies...
The Department of State Security Services (DSS) has arrested two more judges over corruption allegations bringing the number of those arrested to nine. The two, Justices...
Coming on the heels of recent arrest of seven judges in the country, after a raid on their residences by the DSS, President Muhammadu Buhari has...
The National Judicial Council on Friday sent three judges on compulsory retirement over allegations of misconduct and corruption. The three judges are, Justice Mohammed Tsamiya from...
National Judicial Council (NJC) has sent Chief Judge (CJ) of Enugu High Court, the highest ranking justice for state, Justice Innocent Umezuruike on a compulsory retirement...
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja and two others may soon be penalized by the National Judicial Commission, NJC. This is over cases...
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has adjourned the trial of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu and...
The National Judicial Council, NJC, has suspended a High Court judge, Justice B.T Ebuta, while also recommending his sack. The judge, serving with the Cross River...
The National Judicial Council, NJC, has wielded the big stick against three High Court judges as it said on Tuesday that it had sacked Justice O....
The National Judicial Council, NJC, has queried a judge of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court, Justice Muhammed Yunusa, over allegations that he received...
A serving judge in Osun State, Justice Folahanmi Oloyede, who in June petitioned the state House of Assembly to impeach the governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola for...
