Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday suffered another defeat at the Supreme Court over the party’s primary elections This came as the apex court...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State says the judgement of the Supreme Court will not affect the candidacy of Tonye Cole, its governorship candidate,...
The Supreme Court has nailed the lid on the coffin for the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The apex Court on Friday...
The Justice Reform Project, comprising twenty Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN), has described the corruption allegations against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, as...
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...
Human rights activist and former President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Olisa Agbakoba has written a petition to the Supreme Court against the acting Chief...
The APC caucus in the Senate has disowned the suit the Senate filed at the Supreme Court, seeking interpretation on the suspension of the Chief Justice...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has described as an absolute breach of the constitution Friday’s suspension of Walter Onnoghen as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). In...
The Supreme Court is to finally resolve the Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries logjam tomorrow as it delivers its judgement on an appeal brought...
A judge of the High Court, Okon Abang, who is reputed for delivering controversial judgments has been returned to Abuja High Court. Abang was posted to...
Opposition parties on the platform of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) are set to embark on a one-million-man march to protest the planned trial...
The Supreme Court has overruled the judgement of the Court of Appeal that set aside the ruling of Justice Chiwendu Nworgu, restraining the All Progressives Congress...
The federal government and international oil companies operating in the country are to calculate and negotiate arrears of contractual obligations to the latter and the benefitting...
World football governing body, FIFA has replied Chris Giwa in a letter reiterating its recognition of Amaju Pinnick as the head of Nigerian football. Giwa, who...
A Supreme Court sitting in Abuja has referred the case between the Amb. Chris Giwa faction of the Nigeria Football Federation and that of Mr. Amaju...
Plans by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State to conduct local government elections in Imo state next June suffered a major setback as the Supreme Court,...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, has reiterated the important role of judicial officers in the preservation of democratic principles in the country, describing...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is considering heading to the Supreme Court for determination of its powers to fix the date for general elections, following...
The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has appealed against the December 12, 2017 judgment of the Court of Appeal which reversed his acquittal by the Code...
The Supreme Court in Kenya has upheld the presidential re-run election won by President Uhuru Kenyatta. The country’s apex court dismissed the case filed by the...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday declared that the anti-corruption fight in the country could only succeed if proper and thorough investigations and prosecution were conducted....
The seeming battle of supremacy between Nigeria’s executive and legislative arms of government may soon fall to the judicial arm for settlement. Feelers emanating from the...
The Supreme Court has affirmed the status of Ahmed Makarfi as the authentic Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party following his appeal brought to the apex...
The Supreme Court on Friday, threw out two lawmakers from the National Assembly as it faulted the elections that brought them in. The affected lawmakers; Herman...
The ongoing face-off over the 2017 budget, may not be over soon, as the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu...
The controversial temporary travel ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority nations signed into law by President Donald Trump is still blocked after an appeals court from...
Further hearing on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) case before the Supreme Court was on Thursday adjourned till May 25, 2017. The Supreme Court five-man panel...
Three states, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom and Rivers, have filed a N500 trillion law suit at the Supreme Court against the Federal Government challenging its negligence in...
National chairman of the PDP, Sen Ali Modu Sheriff is on his way to the Supreme Court, to challenge an appeal by Sen Ahmed Makarfi seeking...
The Supreme Court will on Thursday in Abuja, the nation’s capital, hear the case filed by the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples’...
The Sen Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the crisis-ridden Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dissociated itself from any plans to float another political party as an alternative....
Less than 24 hours after sacking Sally Yates as the attorney general of the United States after she defied a Muslim travel ban and ordered government...
Nigeria’s Supreme Court has said that the Federal Government has no locus to challenge the Land Regularisation Policy of the Lagos State government and therefore dismissed...
The political tension in the troubled West African country of Gambia has just been upped another notch after four ministers resigned their positions as the end...
Embattled President-elect of the Gambia, Adama Barrow who is now exiled in Senegal, has more emotional trauma to deal with after losing his 8-year-old son Habibou...
President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte has warned that if his fight against drug peddlers became “very virulent”, then he’ll be forced to impose martial law....
The Supreme Court of Gambian has received an injunction filed by President Yahya Jammeh’s lawyer ordering the halt of the swearing-in of president-elect, Adama Barrow. Jammeh’s...
The lower legislative chamber of Nigeria, the House of Representatives will on Thursday debate a motion seeking to provide a safe haven for Gambian President Yahya...
Chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia urged leaders at the bloc’s summit in Abuja on Saturday to...
The Supreme Court on Friday proscribed a law that empowers governors to sack democratically elected local government (LG) chairmen in their states and replacing them with...
Former Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has gone to the Supreme Court to challenge a Court of Appeal in Lagos ruling that he...
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has finally owned up and accepted that corruption is ravaging the Nigerian judicial system. The body of lawyers in the country...
A member of the Supreme Court panel for the hearing of the appeal filed by the Lagos State Government against the acquittal of a former Chief...
Three top management staff of the Supreme Court of Nigeria are to face criminal charges over an alleged N2.2 billion fraud. The top staffers are the...
The quest by Chris Giwa to take hold of the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) suffered a major setback on Monday as the Supreme...
Pastor Ebebe Ukpong has denied leading a former governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom State, Umana Umana, to bribe Justice John Inyang Okoro. Pastor Ukpong is the...
Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC Umana Okon Umana says Justice John Inyang Okoro lied in his assertion that he (Okoro) was approached to...
The Senate on Tuesday, confirmed Ejemba Eko (North Central) from Benue state and Justice Amina A. Augie (North West) from Kebbi as Justices of the Supreme...
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...
Tension is on the high in the Philippines as a day after the chief justice criticised President Rodrigo Duterte name-and-shame campaign in his war on narcotics,...
