A legal practitioner, Mr Maxwell Opara, has filed an alleged defamatory suit seeking N10 billion in damages against Twitter and the Department of State Services (DSS).
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Justice Flora Azinge, the chairman of a Kano State National and State Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, has revealed that a Senior Advocate of Nigeria has attempted to bribe her.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas has said the 10th national assembly has resolved to address issues surrounding multiple taxation in the country.
ASHENEWS reports that a Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara state, on Tuesday, rejected the police headquarters’ request for it to terminate the sale of a $400,000 oil vessel to Kamoru Ibitoye Yusuf, owner of Kam Steel Holdings limited.
A Federal High Court in Lagos will on Thursday rule on an application for withdrawal of charges against the suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) received 122 complaints of alleged human rights abuse in Kano State in July.
The Police on Monday in Ilorin arraigned one David Adedeji at an Area Court in Centre-Igboro for criminal breach of trust, cheating and criminal misappropriation.
Following Senate President, Godswill Akpabio’s revelation on the floor of the Green Chamber, that the 109 Nigerian senators had been credited with a ‘holiday token’ allowance of N2 million, it is now confirmed that the members of the upper chambers of the National Assembly (NASS) received a total of N218 million.
Ms Oluwafunke Adeoye, a Nigerian Human Rights lawyer, has been announced as the winner of the 2023 Waislitz Global Citizens Choice Award for her outstanding performance in the Criminal Justice sector.
ASHENEWS reports that the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal on Thursday ordered that the appeal of the Action Alliance (AA) against the judgment of the Osun State House of Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal should be returned to the tribunal for hearing.