* AGF silence misleading, urges Lawan to halt all deliberation on the controversial bill Efforts to sell the hate speech bill to Nigerians suffered a setback as an activist delivered a court judgem...

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has issued a statement during press conference regarding the ongoing nationwide EndSars protest In a statement signed by the NBA President, Olumide Akpata, dated...

A leading coalition of labour and civil society groups, the Alliance for the Survival of COVID-19 and Beyond, has asked the Nigerian Government to withdraw plans to use soldiers to quell the #EndSARS...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja Judicial Division, has ruled that the Nigeria Customs Service can not collect duty on goods/personal effect of a passenger, in its judgment in Kehinde Ogunwumi...

MAYOWA M. ABIRU, a graduate of Babcock University has emerged the overall best graduating student in the August 2019 Bar Final Exams in the Nigerian Law School. Information from a reliable source has...

Human rights activist, Prof Chidi Odinkalu, says focusing only on the review of the salaries of judges will be counterproductive. Odinkalu, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on...

*Says “Never On My Own Side Have L Ever Used Anything Other Than The Law To Resist The Attempts To Return Us To 1984.” Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Human Rights Activist, Mr. Femi Falana has stated...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a petition to Mrs Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), urging her to “promptly investigate reports that...

*Says The Suspension Is In Violation Of Freedom Of Information Act Suspending Twitter shows that President Muhammadu Buhari, has suspended Chapter IV of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic...

The joint minority caucus of the Senate and the House of Representatives has called on Nigerians to ignore the ban placed by the Federal Government on Twitter and continue to use the social media...

A coalition of women groups has called for the prosecution of Bello, son of Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, for allegedly threatening to rape someone’s mother on Twitter. The demand by the...

Not a few Nigerians have criticized some church leaders who cried foul over the Companies and Allied Matters Act, CAMA, that gives the supervising minister the power to remove the board of trustees...

A Human Rights Advocate, Mr. Deji Adeyanju of the ‘Concerned Nigeria’ advocacy group has a petition, Mr. Anthony Kenechukwu Okeke, to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) on allega...

The Court of Appeal’s verdict on the disputed Kano governorship election has ignited fresh controversy over an alleged conflict of interest involving the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode...

A Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, Face Of Waziri-Nigeria, FOWN, said strong indications have emerged of frantic effort to frustrate at least two of the Justices at Presidential Election Petition...

CATHOLIC Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, yesterday said Nigeria has not recovered from wounds of the civil war, 51 years after the unfortunate event. He also lamented that the leaders have...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 365 concerned Nigerians have filed an application before the Federal High Court, Abuja, asking the court to “reject a suit by a chieftain...

Dr. Abraham Afolayan, a distinguished criminal litigation lecturer at the Nigerian Law School in Abuja, has passed away. Afolayan, who was attending an event in town on behalf of the Director...

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has scheduled Thursday, October 5, as the date to hear the appeal of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). This development was...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an Urgent Appeal to Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, urging her to use her “leadership position to...

A constitutional lawyer, Mr Liborous Osoma, has described the presidential ambition of Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, as a breach of the public service rules. Emefiele...

*Says The Student Was Expelled For Allegedly Criticizing Governor Of Akwa Ibom State An expelled Student of Akwa Ibom University, Mr. Ekpo Iniobong Isang, has written the university seeking reinsta...

Daily Law Tips (Tip 571) by Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LLM. ACIArb(UK) HUSBAND AND WIFE CANNOT BUY/OWN A LAND TOGETHER IN NIGERIA. When a man and a woman marry, they become one in the eyes of the good...

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “It is important to move debates about human rights out of courts and legal academies and back to where they belong – in Parliaments and newspapers and among groups of...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal Government and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to “provide spending details of public funds and private sector donations...

By ELEBUTE JOSHUA A., JESSICA OBODO-ELUE, AND WILLIAMS OLUSOLA CHRISTIANA INTRODUCTION It has become a regular occurrence that humans become afraid anytime technology evolves to disrupt the old ways....

A constitutional and human rights lawyer, Mr. Tope Akinyode, has faulted the claim of the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), that the National Assembly has no power to...

By Babayemi O. Olaniyan Esq INTRODUCTION Recently, the Federal Government of Nigeria placed a ban on a microblogging application named Twitter. The App is popular for connecting people around the...

It will not be business as usual for unproductive civil servants as there are sanctions for incompetence, Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment Festus Keyamo has warned. Keyamo...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned “reports that security agents are shooting at #EndSARS peaceful protesters at the Lekki Toll gate, Lagos. This must stop...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit, asking the court “to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to disclose spending details of the overdrafts and loans obtained...

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Mbabai, the village where Tarnongo Mike Utsaha was buried on 1 April, 2023, used to be part of the municipality of Makurdi, the capital of Benue State. It only became part of...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent “an urgent complaint to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention over the arbitrary detention, torture and other...

Lawbreed Limited the Publishers of Judgments of the Supreme Court of Nigeria (S.C Reports) (on the authority of the Supreme Court) and other Law practice Books has honoured Miss Naomi Uwem Ekop, for...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to use his “good offices and leadership position to urgently instruct the...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent appeal to the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila urging...

Finally, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has ushered in a new leadership to steer the affairs of the Association for the next two years. This is coming after the election conducted by the Electo...

INTRODUCTION: The trial and conviction of actress Funke Akindele and her husband is legally flawed. The fact that they pleaded guilty does not foreclose a discussion on the case because the flaws...

Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has said that the use of police uniforms by skit maker, Abdulgafar Ahmad, aka Cute Abiola, for entertainment is not illegal. The Force Public Relations Officer,...

HUMAN rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong has described the #ENDSARS movement and its resulting losses as products of failure of the Nigerian government to hold the police accountable for extra-judicial...

By Ojiako Great The recent case of PDP v Umahi[1] has sparked discussions and hope on a possible turning point in the practice of cross-carpeting in Nigeria’s politics. The plaintiff, PDP, instituted...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal Government to “publish weekly details of exact funds and other resources allocated by the authorities and received from...

The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja has “ordered the Federal Government to pay journalist Agba Jalingo N30m as compensation for ill-treating and torturing him while in detention in Cross River...

A rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has applied to be joined as party in the suit by a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in suit FHC/ABJ/CS/1391/2020,...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an Urgent Appeal to Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, urging her to “apply the Commonwealth Charter...

*Fmr President, Olumide Akpata Expresses Dissatisfaction With Outcome of Poll Reactions have continued to trail comments by the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Yakubu Maikyau SAN, praising...

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Kenechukwu (Ken) Nnamani, trustee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and leader of the party in south-east Nigeria is about to embark on a book tour with a story...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector General of Police Muhammed Adamu “over ongoing intimidation, harass...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), 261 concerned Nigerians, civil society and media groups have filed a lawsuit against the National Broadcasting Commission [NBC] and Minister...

Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) has denied entering into a discussion with anybody over the abduction of students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State....

Ivory Coast police on Monday clashed with protesters who had begun dismantling a half-built coronavirus testing centre, afraid that people using the facility would spread the epidemic through their...

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN It is well over a month that the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, embarked upon their industrial strike action to press home their demand for financial autonomy and...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given “the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and leadership of the National Assembly 14 days to reverse the proposed illegal cut of...

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, SAN has called for the live broadcast of the proceedings of the 2023 Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in the interest...

A former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof Chidi Odinkalu has described the Supreme Court’s inability to provide a documented judgment on Peter Obi’s presidential appeal...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the World Bank President Mr David Malpass “to exercise the Bank’s prerogative to release archival records and documents relating to...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Nigerian authorities to release protesters immediately and a journalist reportedly arrested by the Police at the Lekki...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court, Abuja to “stop President Muhammadu Buhari from implementing draconian and unlawful provis...

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu When Ogbonnaya Ukeje died in Lagos two days after Christmas Day in 1981, Bode Rhodes-Vivour was a 30 year-old lawyer making his way up the rungs of public service in the...

*Gives Directive On How To Get Verified *Outline Procedure For Change Of Name For Married Lawyers *Provides Email For Complaint For Missing Names The Nigerian Bar Association has launched a “find a...