Category: LEGAL

Jul

22

2025

BREAKING: IGP ignores Natasha’s Request for Police Protection ahead of Senate Resumption

LEGAL, POLITICS#IGP, #IGPKayodeAdeoluEgbetokun, #NatashaAkpoti-Uduaghan

BREAKING: IGP ignores Natasha’s Request for Police Protection ahead of Senate Resumption Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has officially informed the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, of her planned return to the National Assembly on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, following a recent Federal High Court decision overturning her suspension from the Senate. This newspaper gathered that the Inspector-General has yet to restore her security details, with no formal response issued by the Nigeria Police Force as of the time of filing this report. In a letter titled “Police Acknowledgement – Notification of Resumption and Request for Restoration of Police Protection”*, the Kogi…

Jul

18

2025

By Famous Reporters

JUST IN: Prosecution failed to counter 10 issues raised by Defense

IPOB, LEGAL#BiafraAgitation, #ipob, #MaziNnamdiKanu, #Prosecution

JUST IN: Prosecution failed to counter 10 issues raised by Defense The defence team representing Nnamdi Kanu told a Federal High Court in Abuja that the prosecution failed to address ten key issues they raised in their no-case submission, urging the court to acquit the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Kanu’s lead counsel, Kanu Agabi (SAN), at the resumed hearing today, Friday, July 18, 2025, argued that the prosecution did not prove any element of the terrorism charges brought against the defendant. According to him, despite several broadcasts cited by the prosecution, no individual was brought…

Jul

04

2025

By Famous Reporters

REINVENTING THE NBA: Urgent Imperatives For Reformative And Caring Leadership

LEGAL#DrMondayUbaniEsq, #Nba, #Stagnation

REINVENTING THE NBA: Urgent Imperatives For Reformative And Caring Leadership By Dr. M. O. Ubani, SANLegal Practitioner and Public Policy Analyst Across both virtual and physical platforms, a resounding consensus has emerged among Nigerian lawyers: the leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has not adequately addressed the prevailing concerns that affect the welfare, dignity, and professional advancement of its members. This sentiment continues to deepen, particularly among practitioners in the public sector and those navigating the increasingly harsh realities of legal practice in Nigeria. One enduring grievance is the stagnation in the entry point and career progression of lawyers…

Jun

30

2025

By Famous Reporters

Journalist Sues Abia Government, Police for N5 million Over Alleged Violation of Rights

LEGAL, NEWS#Assault, #CharityUwakwe, #HumanRights, #Mediarights, #MediaRightsAgenda, #Violation

Journalist Sues Abia Government, Police for N5 million for Alleged Violation of her Rights An Abia State based journalist, Ms Charity Uwakwe, popularly known as Distinguished Chacha has filed a N5 million suit at the Federal High Court in Umuahia against the State Government and the Nigeria Police asking the court to declare that the forceful detention, physical assault, intimidation, and degrading treatment to which she was subjected in the course of her journalistic duties on June 30, 2023 constitute a violation of her rights under the 1999 Constitution and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The suit…

Feb

27

2025

By Famous Reporters

Abakiliki Court Denise OYC President, Igboayaka bail, Adjourns hearing

LEGAL, NATIONAL NEWS#GovernorFrancisNwifuru, #IgboayakaO.Igboayaka, #OhanezeYouthCouncil, #OYC

Abakiliki Court Denise OYC President, Igboayaka bail, Adjourns hearing In a shocking twist of fate, the Magistrate court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, denied bail to Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, National President of the Ohaneze Youth Council, on Wednesday, February 28, 2025. This is even as the court adjourned hearing on a bail application for the release of the detained national president of the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), Mr Igboayaka Igboayaka to March 12, 2025. This decision comes after weeks of abduction and detention, allegedly orchestrated by the Ebonyi state government led by Rt. Hon. Francis Nwifuru. Famousreporters.com reports that…

Jan

25

2025

By Famous Reporters

Court Sets February 27 for Arraignment of Obanikoro’s Son, Others Over Alleged N1.3bn Fraud

LEGAL#AccessBank, #court

Court Sets February 27 for Arraignment of Obanikoro’s Son, Others Over Alleged N1.3bn Fraud Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of the Federal High Court in Lagos has scheduled February 27 for the arraignment of Gbolahan Obanikoro, the son of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, and four other individuals over alleged conspiracy, obtaining by false pretenses, and involvement in a N1,356,057,330.43 billion fraud. Others to be arraigned alongside Obanikoro are: Adejare Adegbenro, 51; Balmoral International Limited; M.O.B. Integrated Limited; and DDSS International Company Limited. Justice Lewis-Allagoa set the date on Friday after the defendants failed to appear for their scheduled arraignment. The Inspector General of…

Sep

24

2024

By Famous Reporters

“Step aside from this case” Kanu urges Justice Nyako for disobeying S’court order

IPOB, LEGAL#ipob, #JusticeBintaNyako, #MaziNnamdiKanu

"Step aside from this case" Kanu urges Justice Nyako for disobeying S'court's order The leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) has made an application to the presiding Judge over his case with the federal government of Nigeria, Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to rescue herself from his court case with the federal government of Nigeria. Kanu accused Nyako of being biased in delivering judgement. Kanu made the appeal in his oral applications alongside his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, upon resuming hearing in the seven-count terrorism charge filed by the federal government During…

Aug

16

2024

By Famous Reporters

Confusion in Court as 3 Lawyers claim to represent PDP, National Officers

LEGAL#NyesomWike, #Pdp

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The crack in the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) National Working Committee has widened as the party and some of its national officers appointed legal representatives in favour of pro Nyesom Wike faction of the party. This played out at the hearing of Suit, No: FHC/ABJ/CS/1016/2024 BETWEEN HON. AARON CHUKWUEMEKA DSSRS & 5ORS V. PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) & 9ORS before his Lordship Honourable Justice P.O Lifu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Justin Lifu was sitting as a vacation judge on Thursday when the drama ensued with three Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) laying claim being…

Aug

06

2024

By Famous Reporters

PROTESTS: Investigate Reporter’s Death, Prosecute Killers, Court Orders Lagos Govt

LEGAL, NEWS#EndSARsProtest, #Mr.PelumiOnifade

PROTESTS: Investigate Reporter's Death, Prosecute Killers, Court Orders Lagos Govt By our Correspondent A Federal High Court has ordered the Lagos State Government to investigate the death of an online television Reporter’s and ensure an immediate prosecution of his killers. A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the Lagos State Government to ensure an investigation into the death of Mr. Pelumi Onifade, a 20-year reporter with Gboah TV, an online television channel, who was reportedly arrested by officers attached to a Lagos state task force while covering the #EndSARS protests in 2020, and later found dead at a mortuary…

Jul

31

2024

By Famous Reporters

Court Orders Protests to hold at designated areas in Lagos …See specific areas

LEGAL, NATIONAL NEWS#2024hungerprotest

Court Orders Protests to hold at designated areas in Lagos…See specific areas Lagos high court has ordered that the proposed nationwide hunger protests observed on at Freedom and Peace Parks in Lagos State A Lagos High Court has granted an exparte application filed by the State’s Attorney General, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Lawal Pedro seeking to restrict the proposed August 1 nationwide protest, in Lagos to the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota and the Peace Park in Ketu, National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP can report. Justice Emmanuel Ogundare granted the order of pre-emptive remedy by…