•The protesters Over 500 lawyers and members of the Concerned Young Professionals Network (CYPN) today stormed the United States and Swiss Embassies in Abuja to demand international intervention in the alleged corruption scandal involving the Authority Chief Executive Officer (ACEO) of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory...
•Lawyers The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has assembled a team of 97 lawyers to challenge what it describes as the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s ‘fake lawsuit’ against its interim leadership, including former Senate President David Mark and former Minister Rauf Aregbesola. The legal team, led by Barrister Mohammed Sheriff, made this k...
•Strike The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), Ondo branch today began an indefinite strike with judges, lawyers, and litigants barred from accessing the courts’ premises. Akure Division of the State High Court complex and Magistrates’ Court had its entrances to the buildings locked, effectively shutting down all activities within and a...
•Former NNPCL boss, Mele Kyari A group has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Mele Kyari, former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL). Led by Barrister Ojonugwa Theophilus, the group submitted a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on April 25, 2...
•Judiciary workers The Federal High Court (FHC) Chapter of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), today, locked out judges, lawyers, staff and litigants from accessing the court following the indefinite strike declared by its national body. A check by our correspondent at the FHC headquarters located along Shehu Shagari Way in Abuja rev...
•The Senate in session A group of legislative lawyers under the aegis of the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners has filed a suit before the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal, seeking to compel Nigerian senators to refund a significant portion of their salaries and allowances earned since 2023, cit...
•Natasha The legal team of suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has received a formal summons in the case filed against her by the Federal Government at the Federal Capital Territory High Court last week. On Friday, May 16, 2025, the federal government filed the suit, marked CR/297/25, over alleged defamatory remarks made d...
•Nasir El-Rufai Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has alleged widespread corruption in the Nigerian judiciary, saying many judges and lawyers are corrupt. Also, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, yesterday, charged newly appointed magistrates and judges of the lower courts to uphold the highest standards of in...
•Prof Pat Utomi A professor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi, today said he is receiving support from some Nigerians who are planning to mobilise 500 lawyers to defend him against the Department of State Services. Utomi disclosed this in a post on X. “It’s energising (that) some want to put together 500 lawyers to defend […]
•The protesting lawyers Lawyers, numbering about 1,000 who gathered nationwide, under the Save Benue and Zamfara Coalition, yesterday, petitioned the National Assembly to take over the functions of Benue and Zamfara State Houses of Assembly. The coalition, during a peaceful protest, at the National Assembly complex, argued that the two Houses ...
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