The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Mohammed, Saturday warned against disobedience to court orders, saying such an act would hamper the country’s growth and development...
A former deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, on Wednesday raised the alarm over an alleged secret meeting between the...
The Supreme Court on Monday blasted the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) for alleging that the Federal Government was mounting pressure on the Chief Justice...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, on Monday, threatened to deal with propagators of false information across the country. The CJN issued the warning...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, on Friday, warned against disobedience to orders issued by courts, adding that such acts of disobedience would attract...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Ibrahim Muhammad, has said his administration would not tolerate the disobedience of court orders by government at all levels. The...
Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has accused the judiciary and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) of shying away from criticising President Muhammadu Buhari when he suspended...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, says there is independence for the third arm of government under his leadership. Muhammad stated this in...
President Muhammadu Buhari In Wednesday swore-In Ibrahim Tanko as the substantive CJN following his screening and approval by the Senate. President Buhari swore him in at...
The supreme court is an “ecclesiastical order’’; it sits on high looking down on the ”lowly”. It dispenses in inexorable ‘’justice’’; justice not because it is...
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday, confirmed Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). The development came after Muhammad, who has been...
Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, is currently at the National Assembly for screening. The lawmakers had asked him to appear before their...
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop trying to intimidate the nation’s judiciary. He...
Just hours to inauguration, Hope Democratic Party (HDP) has asked the Supreme Court to stop the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari slated for Wednesday in Abuja....
President Muhammadu Buhari, the Senate and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) have been given 14 days to explain why Justice Ibrahim Muhammad Tanko was appointed...
The Court of Appeal, Abuja division, will today, Friday, deliver judgment in the appeal filed by the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen....
The Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has said that no humn being, dead or alive can influence judgments of the Supreme Court....
The Supreme Court hearing on the appeals filed by candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last general elections in Zamfara State has been...
A group of Bauchi lawyers, under the aegis of ‘Body of Bauchi Lawyers of Conscience (BOBOLAC), has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm Justice Ibrahim Tanko...
The Presidency on Thursday night hailed the conviction of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, saying it was a major victory for President...
The trial of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen was laid to rest on Thursday following the judgment of the Code of...
Following submissions made by the legal team of President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Presidential Election Tribunal that the presidential candidate...
The judiciary is an arm of government saddled with the lofty responsibility of interpreting and applying laws to all cases and settling disputes. The Nigerian judiciary...
Twenty-five lawyers who had hitherto filed a suit to challenge the suspension of Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, have announced their withdrawal from...
A lawyer to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, has provided more information on the decision of Mr Onnoghen to step down from office. Adegboyega...
The National Judicial Council, NJC, has recommended the compulsory retirement of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, The Nation, quoting a source within the...
The lead counsel of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo has alleged that the Court of Appeal has been ordered...
The acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammed, has tasked troops of the Nigerian military to always act within the dictates of the laws...
The Federal Government has been revealed to have preempted the outcome of investigation into a petition against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, as...
The trial of suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, resumed in court Monday in the case of alleged false declaration of assets pressed...
Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has reacted to a petition seeking his removal on the claims that it was illegal because the Nigeria...
The Supreme Court has reserved judgement until May 17 in a suit by Cross River State Government challenging the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria...
After the result of the preliminary assessment of petitions against suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen and the acting CJN, Tanko Muhammad, the...
The United Nations special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Diego Garcia-Sayán, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to suspend Walter Onnoghen, Chief Justice of...
Some Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) detectives may appear before the National Judicial Council (NJC) on their findings on suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN)...
The controversies that trailed the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, and the emergence of Tanko Mohammed as acting CJN may...
The Office of the Attorney- General of the Federation (AGF) Abubakar Malami has filed four processes at the National Industrial Court, Abuja, in respect to a...
Rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has urged the Federal Government to withdraw its case against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, at the...
Except the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, agrees to forfeit his allegedly undeclared assets, running into millions and many houses, the embattled...
The 2019 general elections and the heated political climate in the country have taken a toll on the nation’s stock market, as investors on the Nigerian...
The Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has faulted the Senate’s decision to approach the Supreme Court for the interpretation of federal government’s...
Suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, is determined not to go down without a fight. Stories tracked late Tuesday say that his lawyers led...
Fears that the heightening political uncertainties may trigger a pull back in the equity market to halt the bullish run witnessed in the past few days...
Ahead of the emergency meeting of the National Judicial Council (NJC) slated for Tuesday, the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) has sent a...
The suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, has denied rumours of his resignation. A statement signed by his media aide, Awassam Bassey said...
Nigerian lawyers across the country have been asked to boycott courts from Tuesday over the suspension of the Chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen. The...
Foremost human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has condemned the recent controversies emanating from the executive and judicial arms of government. Falana while speaking speaking on...
There are reports that the National Judicial Council (NJC) will Monday hold an emergency meeting over the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter...
The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), a coalition of 400 Civil Society Organizations, said it has closely observed the recently contrived crisis in the nation’s judiciary, which...
Niger Delta militants under the auspices of Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA) have commended President Muhammadu Buhari for suspending Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of...
