The National Judicial Council (NJC) on Saturday alerted Nigerians on a fake advertisement for an ongoing recruitment exercise in the Council. The NJC Director of Information,...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended the appointment of 26 judges to President Muhammadu Buhari and some state governors. The NJC spokesman, Soji Oye, who...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended the compulsory retirement of two judges for alleged age falsification. The judges are – the Grand Kadi of Yobe...
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has called on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to sack Justice Okon Abang to save the bench from national...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has faulted the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to forward the names of 11 lawyers nominated for appointment as judges...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended for appointment as Supreme Court justices four judges including two members of last year’s presidential election petition tribunal that...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended the appointment of 22 judicial officers for both federal and states courts. The council’s Director of Information, Mr. Soji...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) on Tuesday approved the appointment of six new High Court judges for Kano State. The Public Relations Officer of the Kano...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday sent a petition to the National Judicial Council (NJC) in protest against a Judge of the Federal High Court,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to reject the 33 candidates recommended by the National Judicial Council (NJC) for appointment as High Court judges of the...
Urgent practical strategic measures to ensure courts continue to function despite the COVID-19 lockdown has been recommended by a 10-man committee set up by the Chief...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended two judges for compulsory retirement with immediate effect. The Director of Information at NJC, Soji Oye, said in a...
Two High Court judges have been recommended by the National Judicial Council for compulsory retirement over alleged age falsification and failure to deliver judgement for four...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has set up a 10-member committee to fashion out ways courts could sit amid measures to contain Covid-19 spread. Lockdown and...
A legal practitioner, Andrew Emwanta, has petitioned the National Judicial Council (NJC) over the ruling of Justice Lewis Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Kano, over-ruling...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) on Thursday recommended the appointment of six heads of court and 26 judicial officers for various state High Courts in the...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has empaneled eight committees to investigate petitions against eight judges out of 35 petitions written against 37 judges. The council dismissed...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has thrown out a petition against Justice Akon Ikpeme, of allegations of collecting bribe to deliver judgement in favour of Senator...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, to immediately stop the use of the court to...
Worried by the decision of Justice Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja to grant bail to the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore,...
Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, one of justices of the Supreme Court accused of corruption in 2016 has returned to the apex court bench. The Justice, who is...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has confirmed President Muhammadu Buhari’s acceptance of former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen’s voluntary retirement. NJC’s Director of Information,...
A judge of the Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Ineikade Eradiri, has withdrawn from the ongoing trial of a former Bayelsa Security Adviser, Perekeme...
The end maybe in sight in the face-off between the Kogi State government and judiciary staff in the state, as a delegation from the National Judicial...
President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the appointment of Tanko Muhammad as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) by another three months following the recommendations of...
Counsel to the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, has described Thursday’s judgment as unconstitutional and premeditated, adding that it was in breach of his...
Less than 48 hours after the National Judicial Council (NJC) transmitted its investigative report to President Muhammadu Buhari, the embattled suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter...
The National Judicial Council, NJC, has recommended the compulsory retirement of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, The Nation, quoting a source within the...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has concluded its investigation into allegations against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, and Acting Chief Justice...
After the result of the preliminary assessment of petitions against suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen and the acting CJN, Tanko Muhammad, the...
The United Nations special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Diego Garcia-Sayán, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to suspend Walter Onnoghen, Chief Justice of...
The National Judicial Commission, NJC, has issued a fresh query to the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. The new NJC query has to...
Some Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) detectives may appear before the National Judicial Council (NJC) on their findings on suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN)...
The controversies that trailed the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, and the emergence of Tanko Mohammed as acting CJN may...
Rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has urged the Federal Government to withdraw its case against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, at the...
The Justice Reform Project, comprising twenty Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN), has described the corruption allegations against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, as...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… The irrational vibes coming from the supporters of the controversial suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen, as the Chief Justice of Nigeria by President...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has handed the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) seven days ultimatum to respond to a petition filed against him by...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has started an emergency meeting in Abuja to deliberate on the suspension of the Chief Justice of the Nigeria (CJN), Walter...
Ahead of the emergency meeting of the National Judicial Council (NJC) slated for Tuesday, the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) has sent a...
To deliberate the perceived clampdown on the judicial system in Nigeria, various judicial bodies have scheduled emergency meetings to address the suspension of the Chief Justice...
There are reports that the National Judicial Council (NJC) will Monday hold an emergency meeting over the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said the the Peoples Democratic Party and all those raising dust over President Muhammadu Buhari’s suspension of...
Senate President Bukola Saraki has strongly condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s suspension of Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, urging him to reverse the decision immediately. Saraki...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has described as an absolute breach of the constitution Friday’s suspension of Walter Onnoghen as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). In...
Foremost lawyer, Afe Babalola (SAN), has described the planned arraignment on Monday of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, at the Code of...
Justice Olusegun Tokode, who was removed from the Federal High Court’s bench in December 2017, will be replaced on Tuesday with a petitioner who exposed an...
Based on petitions from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) the National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended for the dismissal of two judges to President...
The Corruption and Financial Crime Cases Trial Monitoring Committee (COTRIMCO) has listed some of the factors preventing the speedy disposal of corruption cases in Nigeria. According to...
The National Judicial Commission (NJC) says it has set up a committee to investigate allegations leveled against some Judges by the Economic and Financial crimes Commission...
