The Senate on Tuesday, indicated plans to summon the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Mahmud Mohammed and others named in the ongoing corruption saga and invasion...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Barring justice in heaven, judiciary use to be one place in Nigeria where people get relative reprieve. Our lawyers and judges were...
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, has challenged Justices Adeniyi Ademola and Namdi Dimgba to go to court to prove he was behind...
By Sonala Olumhense… Finally, Nigeria last week got around to the touchy subject of taking the filthy wigs off corrupt members of the judiciary and calling...
By Okey Ndibe… Last week, agents of the Department of State Security (DSS) carried out a series of commando-style raids at the residences of numerous justices,...
By Taju Tijani… Talking heads, chattering lawyers and social media highways were set ablaze when it was revealed that judges were ambushed, shocked and awed by...
The National Judicial Council, NJC has accused the Department of State Services, DSS, of trying to intimidate and cow the judiciary with the raid on the...
Cafter meeting for two days in Abuja. They extended the meeting to a third day — today. The council is one of the federal executive bodies...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Mahmud Mohammed, has said the mode of arrest of seven judges by the Department of State Services, DSS, was deeply...
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja and two others may soon be penalized by the National Judicial Commission, NJC. This is over cases...
Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has called for the intervention of the Chief Justice of Nigeria ( CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed and President Muhammadu Buhari, over conflicting...
President Muhammadu Buhari, and the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, have expressed divergent views on corruption cases before the courts. Both leaders, while...
The National Judicial Council, NJC, has suspended a High Court judge, Justice B.T Ebuta, while also recommending his sack. The judge, serving with the Cross River...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, Monday, came down hard on judicial officers he accused of leaking confidential information to lawyers and other...
The National Judicial Council, NJC, has queried a judge of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court, Justice Muhammed Yunusa, over allegations that he received...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, says any judge who stays proceeding on any criminal matter before his court would be dealt with....
Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Mahmud Mohammed, has explained that those calling judicial officers corrupt are inconsiderate and ignorant of how the judiciary operates. Mohammed...
After absolving the accusation from the executive arm of government that it was responsible for the slow pace of the anti-corruption war, and being the reason...
Many Nigerians who have been worried by the low level of conviction secured by the anti-graft agencies in spite of the numerous cases of corruption they...
Worried by the wave of attacks against judges, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, Wednesday, accused Nigerian politicians of being quick to blame and...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, has told judges and magistrates to exercise utmost restraint in handling plea...
While June 12 may mean different things to different people, what is not in doubt is that Nigerians paid an enormous price for the contrived and...
ABUJA—The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, yesterday, lamented that the judiciary has been greatly overburdened by political matters. Speaking at a Public Dialogue...