•House of Representatives The House of Representatives today, Wednesday, March 20, passed into law an act to prescribe the salaries, allowances, and fringe benefits of judicial office holders in the country which provides a total monthly package of N5,385,047.26 for the Chief Justice of Nigeria. Under the bill which was submitted to the House ...
The main entrance of Ogun State Magistrate Court, Isabo, today Judicial workers in the Ogun State Judiciary today, began a five-day warning strike, over non-payment of their 40 per cent peculiar allowance. Both the Magistrates and High Courts in the Isabo and Kopabe areas of Abeokuta were locked as a result of the strike, reports […]
•Tinubu at NASS The presidency is to get nearly N146 billion in the proposed 2024 budget, according to fresh documents released last night by the House of Representatives. The amount comprises N60,535, 827, 133 for capital expenditure and N85,413, 321,897 for recurrent expenditure. For statutory transfers, the National Assembly will get N197,9...
Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Plateau State chapter, Izang Aware, has said that Nigerians have lost confidence in the legal system in the country. He said that there’s therefore the need for introspection by legal practitioners to make the profession responsive to the yearnings and aspirations of the common man as their last ...
•Olisa Agbakoba The former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba SAN, has asked the National Judicial Council (NJC) to heed the issues raised by retired Justice Musa Dattijo Muhammad in his valedictory speech. Agbakoba, in an interview with Arise Television, noted that NJC needs to take action in order to address the ...