•Lawyers’ protest in Lagos Lawyers in Lagos State yesterday trooped out in large numbers to hold a proÂtest against continued malÂtreatment by the police in the state. The lawyers numbering over 700 came from the five judicial divisions including Ikeja, Lagos, Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry, reports Daily Independent. They converged very early...
The controversy over the suspension of 26 lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly took a new dimension today as Lawyers for Defence of Democracy, called on the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, to investigate the alleged secret ex-parte order issued on Friday by Justice Donatus Okorowo, stopping the […]
As the crisis rocking the Rivers State House of Assemble unfolds, party chieftains, lawyers and other stakeholders have continued to express divergent views which indicate that the feud may not end any time soon. Although the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it is working assiduously to resolve the political crisi...
Justice Musa Dattijo Muhammad retired from the Supreme Court bench last week as the second most senior justice. The nation was however taken aback when he opened a can of worms on the rot in the same institution he served for four decades. In his valedictory speech, Justice Dattijo lamented that the judiciary he was […]
•Lawyers The Coalition of Nigerian Legal Practitioners has said it would mobilise 1000 lawyers to protest against the hike in fuel price on November 2, at the headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) in Abuja. This is even as the coalition had already petitioned President Bola Tinubu, Speaker of the House of ...
•The 7 Supreme Court Justices A cross section of Nigerians – leaders of ethnic nationalities, religious leaders, lawyers and other groups have expressed mixed feelings over Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment which declared President Bola Tinubu winner of the election against the Presidential candidates of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Lab...

