Category: Justice

Participants at the 2021 All Nigeria Judges Conference in Abuja…yesterday. Photo: State House • Cautions judges against incessant ex-parte orders • Buhari to judges: Improve justice delivery to attract foreign investors • Urges imposition of huge cost on lawyers employing delay tactics It is difficult for the judiciary to be impartial and objective in a […]

The National Judicial Council has set up a probe panel to investigate three High Court Judges who issued conflicting ex-parte orders on the same subject matter. NJC, saddled with the power to discipline judicial officers directed the three judges who granted ex-parte orders over the same case with the same subject matter to appear before […]

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN,, Justice Ibrahim Muhammad has directed the Judicial Service Committee (JSC) of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to probe the circumstances leading to a recent decision by a judge in Abuja The judge of an Upper Area Court, whose name is being withheld, was said to have recently issued a […]

Nigeria Failing Because Legal Profession Has Failed – Lawyers Conflicting Court Orders Threat To Democracy, Reflects Dependent Judiciary – A2J Forum-shopping For Ex parte Orders Is Judicial Rascality – Azinge ‘Erring Judges Not Chief Judges Must Face Inquiry, Punishment’ Time was when the judiciary commanded the respect of all and sundry in the Nigerian society, […]

Lead counsel to Government of Rivers State, Donald Chika Denwigwe, SAN, (middle); member of the counsel, Ken C.O. Njemanze, SAN (left) and another member briefing journalists after the Federal High Court declared FIRS collection of Value Added Tax in Rivers State unconstitutional in Port Harcourt…yesterday The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has declared […]

The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, has declared that it is the Rivers State Government and not the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), that should collect the Valued Added Tax (VAT) and Personal Income Tax (PIT) in the state.  The court, presided over by Justice Stephen Dalyop Pam,  also issued an order of […]

The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Justice John Tsoho, on Tuesday issued an order unfreezing the N2.1 billion bank account of the founder of Daar Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi. He ordered the account domiciled at the First Bank be immediately unfrozen since the criminal charges which precipitated the restriction on the […]

Why I decided not to run for governorship, by Chidoka A Federal High Court in Awka, presided over by Justice Peter Okaa, yesterday, reaffirmed former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Soludo as candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the November 6, 2021 Anambra State governorship election. The […]

The Federal High Court, Abuja, yesterday, ordered the Federal Government to pay $951 million to the Bayelsa State Government. The amount is the 13 per cent derivative sum due as arrears of revenue and payable to Bayelsa State. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who delivered the judgment, held that the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), the sole […]