By Joseph Edgar… This is like a bad movie. The judiciary is crumbling. What has this generation of players done to the judiciary? They have brought...
By Isaac Aluko Ademoroti… Going by all available records, Nigerian politicians generally, shortly before and immediately after independence from Britain, were often referred to as ten...
Femi Falana… Two weeks ago, the Nigerian Bar Association had cause to condemn the nocturnal raid on the official quarters of seven judges including two members...
Nigerian Constitutional lawyer, Professor Ben Nwabueze (SAN), has argued that the acts establishing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Department of State Security...
The dust raised by the arrest of some judges by the Department of State Security Services [DSS] is yet to settle as the National Judicial Council...
Pastor Ebebe Ukpong has denied leading a former governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom State, Umana Umana, to bribe Justice John Inyang Okoro. Pastor Ukpong is the...
Nine days after an emergency meeting on the arrests of some of its judges nationwide, the National Judicial Council (NJC) has said although judges have no...
Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC Umana Okon Umana says Justice John Inyang Okoro lied in his assertion that he (Okoro) was approached to...
The effect of the arrest and detention of judges in the country may have started emanating, as Justice Adeniyi Ademola, Tuesday, with drew from the case...
The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has advocated for the suspension of judges arrested and detained by the Department of State Services, DSS. The PACAC...
Justices Adeniyi Ademola and Nnamdi Dimgba are said to have returned to court on Monday after the National Judicial Council (NJC) described their apartment raid as...
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 21 freed Chibok Girls said on Sunday in Abuja that for “one month and 10 days’’ of their abduction by the Boko Haram insurgents, they...
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...
More revelations have emerged over the raid on judges residences across the country and their eventual arrest and detention. According to reports emanating from the Department...
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,...
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...
The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has said he has his doubts over the reported release of 21 Chibok girls, saying the report may be...
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Thursday, faulted claims by the Department of State Services that there were complaints or petitions against the judges arrested in a...
A new twist has been added to the ongoing allegations of corrupt practices in the judiciary, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Thursday, said...
The release of 21 out out 218 Chibok girls in the captivity of of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has been confirmed by the Presidency....
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Afe Babalola, has berated the Department of State Services, DSS, over the arrest of some judges in the country. Babalola...
The Department of State Security Services (DSS) has arrested two more judges over corruption allegations bringing the number of those arrested to nine. The two, Justices...
Strongest indications yet regarding why Governor Wike of Rivers State is said to be jittery over the on-going clamp-down of alleged corrupt judges may have emerged....
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...
The Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB has said that contrary to the misleading reports allegedly sponsored by the Department of State Services, DSS, on the charges...
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has disagreed with the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, over its call for the unconditional release of the seven judges...
The stage is obviously set for a showdown between the Presidency and the body of lawyers in the country represented by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)....
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, has accused the Department of State Services, DSS, of engaging in deliberate misinformation and concocting stories to justify its attack...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to instruct the Department of State Security (DSS) to immediately and unconditionally release all...
A human rights group, Committee for Democracy and Rights of the People (CDRP) has condemned the invasion of homes of some judges by the Department of...
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has threatened that there will be consequences if the judges arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS, on Friday night...
The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fasoye, has condemned the raid on residences of judges...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has said it is after corrupt judges of the Supreme, Appeal and High courts in the sweeping operations it carried...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State early hours of Saturday morning, claimed men of the Nigerian Police and the Department of State Security (DSS) almost gunned...
#EdoDecides Ovian South West LG APC 12,820 PDP 8,810 3:18pm… INEC resumes announcement of results 2:00pm… INEC takes another one hour break to continue with the...
The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the Presidency plans to plant men of the Department of State Services (DSS)...
The leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has disowned the ten ‘journalists’ that were arrested by a combined team of soldiers and men of...
The Nigerian Army and the Department of State Services, DSS, are yet to release the 10 journalists arrested at the hotel they were staying in Benin...
A 44-year-old man, Eseosasere Gift Osifo, on Thursday appeared before an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court over alleged impersonation of the Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo...
A combined team of Nigerian Police Force and Department of State Security on Wednesday stormed the headquarters of the League Management Company, Abuja to effect the...
Nigerian Journalist Ahmad Salkida, who covered Boko Haram activities, has cried out that his life is now in danger for doing his job. Salkida was in...
The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, has warned against another postponement of the Edo State governorship election. The civil society group also called...
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Sunday, again alleged that the Department of State Services, DSS, in concert with some officials at the Kuje Prisons...
The Edo chapter of the APC, has aligned itself with the postponement of the governorship election scheduled originally to hold in the state on Saturday. The...
The drama leading up to the final cancellation by INEC, of the Edo gubernatorial election, originally slated for Saturday, September 10, can best be described as...
The Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) says it will go ahead with Saturday’s, September 10, Edo State governorship election against security reports that the exercise be...
The Edo State governorship election scheduled for Saturday, September 10 still hangs in the balance, as INEC, has said it would need to consult with the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the call by the Nigerian Police and the Department of State Services, DSS, for the postponement of Saturday’s...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has rejected the call for the postponement of Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State for the West African Senior School...
