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WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Have you seen him? NCoS warders panic over Rev King as Maiduguri flood pulls down prison

By MUSA DANJUMA Special Correspondent, Maiduguri WHEN the walls of Maiduguri Custodial Centre collapsed on 10 September 2024, from the furious waters of the broken Alau Dam, the bigger concern for the authorities of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, beyond Maiduguri, was

September 20, 2024

Law & Society

Tinubu swears in Kekere-Ekun as Ag. CJN, his first official function after return yesterday from France on ‘working visit’

Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun has been sworn-in as the 23rd Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the State House, Abuja. She will operate in acting capacity until conformation by the Senate. Justice Kekere-Ekun took her Oaths around 11:38am

August 24, 2024

Law & Society

Public trust in judiciary nearly dead; to revive it, you must insist on reforms, Senior Advocate tells new CJN

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Kunle Adegoke has congratulated the newly appointed Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun for her ascension to the highly coveted seat of CJN, but has also warned that her tenure might also be another

August 23, 2024

Law & Society

Nigerian arrested for allegedly stealing $10 million in U.S. unemployment benefits

(PII) acquired from criminal internet forums to apply for these benefits, falsely claiming to be eligible state residents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. They also allegedly used this PII to open U.S. bank and prepaid debit card accounts to receive the fraudulent

August 21, 2024

Law & Society·Opinion

Olukayode Ariwoola: The baleful legacy of a lamentable tenure

By CHIDI ANSEL ODINKALU At the beginning of March 2020, Nigeria’s Supreme Court dismissed an application for the review of its seven-week-old decision to judicially install Hope Uzodinma as the Governor of Imo State, citing as its main reason the need to preserve

August 20, 2024

Law & Society·Opinion

Lethal illegitimacy and right to protest in Nigeria, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

115 years ago, in 1909, Walter Egerton, the Barrister-turned-colonial administrator, and then Governor, introduced the Sedition Ordinance into the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. This drew a sharp response from Christopher Sapara Williams, Nigeria’s first lawyer, himself the son of an

August 4, 2024