Federal High Court Dismisses Suit Against Gov. Fubara’s N800 Billion 2024 Rivers Budget Represenation The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit aiming to prevent Governor Siminalayi Fubara from re-presenting the N800 billion 2024 budget of Rivers State. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, delivering the ruling on Tuesday, also set […]
Month: January 2024
by Takim Etta Introduction After all legal battles at the High Courts and Court of Appeal, parties to a case look up to the Supreme Court of Nigeria, which is the last hope for all aggrieved parties. The Nigerian Supreme Court is the highest superior court of record. The court […]
US court Fines Nigerian Blogger $50,00 for Defamation. Judge Theresa Adams of the Baltimore County Circuit Court in the United States has imposed a staggering $50,000 in damages on Funke Ashekun, a US-based Nigerian blogger. The ruling comes in response to a defamation lawsuit filed by the General Overseer of […]
The Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate for the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has voiced his distress over the dilapidated state of Nigeria’s critical national assets, particularly the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. His anguish was palpable as he visited the airport on Wednesday, witnessing firsthand the dismal condition of […]
Appeal Court Rules On Pension For Politicians The Court of Appeal has invalidated the practice of granting pension, gratuity, or severance allowance to political office holders, asserting its moral wrongfulness. A three-member panel of the court expressed that allocating substantial public funds for such benefits to politicians, who typically serve […]
By Takim Etta Cross River State Law school applicants have made a passionate appeal to the Government of Cross River State, under the leadership of His Excellency Governor Prince Bassey Otu, for an educational grant to enable them to pay for their tuition fees for the 2023/2024 academic session. The […]
For the past 10 years, there has been a drastic increase in missing people in Nigeria, whose bodies are often found, or not found at all. Before the recent trend of Yahoo Boys, it is unclear whether the killers use their victims’ body parts for Money Ritual or if […]
Our rainforest is gone: Cross River State in trouble. A forest covering over 312 Square kilometers, essential for stabilizing the the world ecosystem, has vanished. According to Global Forest Watch, in 2010, Cross River had 1.31 million hectares of tree cover, extending over 61% of its land area. By 2022, […]
EFCC Re-Arraigns Ex-CBN Governor Emefiele on Fresh Charges The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has re-arraigned Godwin Emefiele, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), before Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Maitama, Abuja. Emefiele faced a fresh set of charges […]
His Excellency Engineer Seyi Makinde, the executive Governor of Oyo State, has magnanimously approved a bursary allowance of Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N500,000) per student for the batch 2023 law school attendees hailing from Oyo state. This benevolent gesture, according to reliable sources, has become a perennial tradition, with governor […]