The Federal Government has engaged the services of a legal luminary, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo to lead its legal team in the prosecution of treasonable felony charges it brought again Nnamdi Kanu. Awomolo is taking over from David Kaswe a senior lawyer from the Federal Ministry of Justice in Abuja who has been handling the case for the federal government. In the same vein, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People […]
Written By Wahab Akinlade Lagos State High Court has sentenced a suspended Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP Drambi Vandi, to death by hanging for killing a pregnant Lagos-based lawyer Mrs Omobolanle Raheem. The presiding judge, Justice Ibironke Harrison sitting in Tafa Balewa Square, found the killer cop guilty of murder. The Lagos State government had arraigned Vandi before the court for allegedly shooting the 41-year-old pregnant lawyer to death at […]
About 60 Constitutional and Human Rights lawyers, today stormed the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory to commence proceedings against the Director General of the State Security Service, Mr Yusuf Bichi, for what they described as violation of multiple judgments and orders of court directing the release of former Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele from custody of the agency. The consortium of lawyers led by Mr. Maxwell Opara […]
A drama erupted at the Federal High Court in Abuja, when a Judge, Justice James Omotosho handed a police lawyer, Ibrahim Mohammed to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for filing a criminal charge against Senator Stella Adaeze Oduah. The police lawyer is to be investigated for filing the 8-count criminal charges against the former Minister of Aviation in the name of EFCC without the authority of the anti-graft […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has been warned to stop Criminalizing civil transaction matters that are outside its establishment mandate to stop incurring further wrath of Courts. Specifically, the anti-graft agency was asked to re-evaluate its approach to cases involving civil transactions and limit its scope of operations to criminal matters as stipulated in the law that set it up. An Abuja based lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi issued the […]
An Abuja based legal practitioner, Mr Pelumi Olajengbesi has asked the Federal Government to immediately scrap its Service Compact With All Nigerians ( SERVICOM) on the ground that the agency has failed to serve its purpose. The lawyer warned that the Federal Government should stop the use of tax payers money from being used to fund a moribund organization like SERVICOM which he claimed, is no longer serving […]
