•Incarcerated IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has returned to the Supreme Court to challenge what his legal team described as a “judgment that destroyed justice” — a ruling they say relied on a repealed law to sustain his prosecution despite a binding Court […]...
The Labour Party Candidates Forum (LPCF) has condemned what it described as the blatant disobedience of court judgments sacking Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), accusing both Abure and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of disregarding the rule of law. The forum reaffirmed its loyalty and solida...
•Governor Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and the Nigeria Senate The Lagos State Government has accused the National Assembly of attempting to subvert the Nigerian Constitution and a binding Supreme Court judgment through the proposed Central Gaming Bill, warning that the move could plunge the country into a fresh constitutional crisis. Speaking at a...
•Trump The US Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration yesterday to freeze for now more than $4 billion in foreign assistance appropriated by Congress. The conservative-dominated court said upholding the president’s authority to conduct foreign affairs appears to “outweigh the potential harm” faced by the intended recipients of the aid m...
Nigeria’s Supreme Court held its first hearing in a high-profile blasphemy case today that defence lawyers hope will lead to a ruling that puts curbs on sharia law. Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a Sufi Muslim musician, was sentenced to death by a sharia court in Nigeria’s northern Kano State in 2020 for sharing song lyrics deemed to […]
The Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Osun State chapter, has disclosed that the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation is plotting to “preempt the Supreme Court” by allegedly preparing to pay withheld local government allocations in Osun into the accounts of court-sacked All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmen...
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has thrown its weight behind the indigenous Ijaw and Urhobo people of Warri Federal Constituency, strongly condemning what it described as the deliberate and illegal attempts by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to subvert the Supreme Court’s clear and binding judgemen...
•Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State The Osun State Government has filed a fresh suit at the Supreme Court against the Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), over the alleged unlawful withholding of statutory allocations due to its 30 local government councils since March 2025. The fresh suit filed on Monday comes months ...
•US President Donald Trump A divided US Supreme Court gave President Donald Trump the green light yesterday to resume dismantling the Education Department. The conservative-dominated court, in an unsigned order, lifted a stay that had been placed by a federal district judge on mass layoffs at the department, reports AFP. The three liberal just...
•Akpabio and Okpebholo President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, GCON has congratulated the governor of Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo, on his confirmation as the duly elected candidate in the September 2024 gubernatorial elections in Edo State. Akpabio, in a congratulatory message personally signed by him and copy made available...

