With a total monthly package of N5.39 million for the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) the House of Representatives has passed a Bill for an Act...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday asked the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court to suspend the recruitment of judges into the 12 vacant positions...
The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Kazeem Alogba, had advised judges in the state to consider retiring once they can no longer function well on...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) National Judicial Institute (NJI) and other stakeholders in the anti-graft war, have called for a robust, globally-acceptable legislation to...
Fearing for their safety, the judges of the Kano State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal have elected to stay away from court but instead deliver their judgment...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended the appointment of 64 judges to their respective state governors for appointment as judicial officers in the country. The...
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has said judges in the country are under political pressure to please some vested interests. The governor, who spoke...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has announced the candidature of 37 new judicial officers to head various courts in the country and the federal capital territory....
The Nigerian House of Representatives are on the brink of sanctioning the increase in the number of Appeal Court judges from 90 to 150 nationwide. This...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has asked striking members of the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) to ensure that judicial budgets are not under...
The Nigerian government on Monday demanded a transparent process for the selection of judges and prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Attorney-General of the...
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Friday inaugurated six judges of the State High Court. The state’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Muhammad Lawal,...
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Wednesday sworn in five new judges for the state’s High Court. At the event held in Ilorin and attended by the...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Tuesday swore in eight new judges in the state. At a ceremony held in the Executive Council Chamber of the State...
Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha on Friday inaugurated nine judges in the state and charged them to ensure fairness, as well as make sure they deliver...
The 10th edition of Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer, GCB, released on Thursday has shown the police, legislature and the judiciary are among the most corrupt...
Judges who have twice served on various election petition tribunals in the country will not be re-appointed for the same assignment in 2019, The PUNCH has...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, has reiterated the important role of judicial officers in the preservation of democratic principles in the country, describing...
The presidency, still unsatisfied with the conduct of the judiciary over recall of some suspected corrupt judges has again lashed out at the National Judicial Commission...
Turkey’s cleansing of those suspected to be part of the failed coup staged last July has continued with the issuing of detention warrants for no less...
47-year-old prisoner Rodney Cydrus is set to face fresh charges after he allegedly sent a mail threatening President Donald Trump and federal judges in letters he...
The Senate, on Tuesday, frowned at the alleged refusal by the Federal Government to pay some Federal Judges their four-month salary arrears. Accordingly, two committees, Finance...
Abubakar Malami, Nigeria’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) has said that he was very much aware of the raid carried out...
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has finally owned up and accepted that corruption is ravaging the Nigerian judicial system. The body of lawyers in the country...
Findings have indicated that a former highly placed judge who retired from his position in 2013 is behind the recent raid on some judges by the...
Ace comedian and motivational speaker, Ali Baba has weighed in on the alleged corrupt practices of Nigerian judges following the arrest of some influential men 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...
Tension is on the high in the Philippines as a day after the chief justice criticised President Rodrigo Duterte name-and-shame campaign in his war on narcotics,...
Ahead of the forthcoming judgment of the Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal, a civil rights group under the aegis of Kogi Patriotic Front (KPF), has alleged...
The National Judicial Council, NJC, has wielded the big stick against three High Court judges as it said on Tuesday that it had sacked Justice O....
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...
