Kwara State Chief Judge Abiodun Adebara has urged lawyers and judges in Nigeria to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in judicial administration responsibly and cautiously. Justice Adebara admitted that AI had come to stay, but added that “in judicial administration, AI should be used with caution, as an aid to and not a substitute for human [&h...
•IGP Tunji Disu The legal team representing one Mr. Godwin Francis Akpan has appealed to the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, over what it described as the continued detention of their client despite an order of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory directing his release. The FCT High Court, Maitama, had on September [&hel...
Lawyers have described the proposed extension of the retirement age of Magistrates and Law Officers of Lagos State as an issue that should be considered within the broader context of justice delivery, institutional experience, career progression and succession planning. They said the proposed amendment should be viewed both as a judicial-capac...
A committee of lawyers and stakeholders from Ondo State has protested what it described as the marginalisation and unfair exclusion of several coastal communities in Ilaje Local Government Area from the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project. The group, at a press conference held in Lagos yesterday, alleged that the Federal Ministry of Works, u...
•A Niger Delta oil community Lawyers and the Social Development Integrated Centre (Social Action) have called for stronger policy frameworks and systemic structures to advance environmental justice in the Niger Delta and across Nigeria. They made the call at a stakeholder engagement dialogue convened by Social Action to examine environmental j...
•Nigerian lawyers Some participants at the 2026 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt have decried poor organisation, inadequate welfare arrangements and uncomfortable venues, saying the event fell short of last year’s edition in Enugu. The conference, themed “Beyond Limits,” is holding in its final days ami...
•Impeached Edo Speaker, Blessing Agbebaku Reactions have trailed the decision of the Edo State House of Assembly to convert the resignation of its former Speaker, Blessing Agbebaku, to impeachment, eight days after he resigned from office. Speaking with journalists shortly after the Assembly converted the former Speaker’s resignation to impeac...
•Nigerian lawyers A group of legal practitioners under the aegis of Concerned And Independent Legal Practitioners For The Families Of The Detained And Missing Persons in Igboland today urged the federal government to immediately produce all persons currently detained without trial and either charge them before competent civilian courts or rele...
•Sowore in court, today The trial of activist and politician Omoyele Sowore on alleged defamation charges filed by the Department of State Services (DSS) has been adjourned after a heated exchange between lawyers for both parties disrupted proceedings in court. The confrontation began after Sowore’s lead counsel, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN),...
•Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya (SAN) Confusion has continued to trail the just concluded national poll of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), with a new twist as a group of lawyers yesterday, asked the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to stop the swearing in of the President-elect, Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya (SAN), and other newly elected na...
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