Law & Society - Page 76

The crisis of leadership rocking the high-end Lagos Country Club, Ikeja, Lagos, instead of abating may have deepened, Daily Query can report. Sprawled on plots of land on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Joel Ogunnaike Street in Ikeja, the elitist members-only club has been shut

Devatop Centre for Africa Development, a youth-led anti-human trafficking and human rights organisation, has called on the Nigerian government to strengthen policies protecting Child Domestic Workers’ (CDWs) rights and dignity. Mr Joseph Osuigwe, Devatop’s Executive Director, made this call yesterday (Saturday, October

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared an oil mogul, Bolaji Akinduro, wanted over alleged fraud. The commission’s Spokesman, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement on Saturday (today, October 12) in Abuja. Oyewale said that Akinduro allegedly obtained money

The Cross River State Command of the Nigeria Police has paraded three Ambazonia separatist suspects and four other suspected criminals in Calabar. The parade took place at the Police Headquarters in Diamond Hill, Calabar during a briefing by the newly posted State

The Federal High Court in Abuja, has restrained the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s national leadership from removing Mr Umar Damagum as the acting national chairman of the party. In a virtual proceeding monitored by newsmen in Abuja, Lifu who delivered the judgment

The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court (FHC), Justice John Tsoho, has reassigned the Federal Government’s case against Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) back to Justice Binta Nyako. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports

A Federal High Court in Lagos has rejected a lawsuit aimed at contesting the recent increase in electricity tariffs, labeling it an abuse of the judicial process. The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) initiated the suit against the eleven electricity distribution companies

The Rivers State Government has insisted that the Appeal Court judgment on Thursday (today, October 10) in Abuja did not reinstate the Martin Amaewhule-led faction of the State House of Assembly by any stretch of the imagination. In a statement signed

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has again warned against any plan by anyone or group to use whatever guise to establish an Internally Displaced Persons Camp (IDP) in the SouthEast, saying the self-determination group will resist such a move. In a statement

More than 370 million girls and women alive today, or one in every eight worldwide, experienced rape or sexual assault before the age of 18, the United Nations children’s agency has disclosed. The number rises to 650 million, or one in five,