Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State is dead at 67. According to reports, Akeredolu died of Leukamia in Lagos on Wednesday. Aketedolu returned to Nigeria in September following a three-month medical leave in Germany and only recently proceeded on another one after he was directed by President Bola […]

Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has signed the 2024 Appropriation Bill of N567.2 billion, recently passed by the State House of Assembly into law. While signing the bill on Thursday, Otti said the 2024 Budget would move Abia from its current level of underdevelopment to development. “I want […]

On Wednesday 6 December 2023, the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Piotr Hofmański, met with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, at the seat of the United Nations in New York. The meeting took place in the margins of the 22nd Session of […]

A Kentucky woman who filed a class action last week challenging the state’s near-total ban on abortion is no longer pregnant, her lawyers said Tuesday, calling for more plaintiffs to carry the case forward. Lawyers for the woman at Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) […]

New legislation introduces penalty notices for animal health and welfare offences. Penalty notices of up to £5000 could be issued from 1 January 2024 for animal health and welfare offencesOffences includes keeping animals in a poor living environment, overdue TB testing or animal breeders operating without a licenceNew […]

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has terminated the appointments of five of its officials for corruption and other offences. In a statement on Monday by LASTMA spokesman, Adebayo Taofiq, the traffic management authority said letters of Termination of Appointments were released to the officers on December […]

Hon. Justice Edith Agbakoba of the Abuja Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria died this morning Monday 6th November 2023.

Anthony Atata has been re appointed the Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association,Sports and Recreation committee by Bisi Makanjuola the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association in Lagos.Mr Atata served as the first standing committe Chairman of the Sports and Recreation committee of the branch under the former Chairman […]

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, has ordered the removal of the Divisional Police Officer of the Meiran Police Station in Lagos State over alleged extortion.

Former Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger has joined other high-profile Jewish lawyers to call for Israel to be guided by the law in its response to the Hamas attack.

In a hotly contested finals ,Ahmed Ajila defeated Yahaya Olarewaju to win the male category of 2023 Lawyers Table Tennis Open ( Mfon Usoro Cup). The 2023 tournament will be the 5th time the duo will be meeting in the finals. They both met in 2018 and 2019 […]

Bola Ajibola, a former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Nigeria has died at the age of 89. Ajibola, was also a former Judge of the International Court of Justice, Hague, Netherlands, Prince Bola Ajibola, is dead.

Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who tried Nazis for genocidal war crimes and was among the first outside witnesses to document the atrocities of Nazi labor and concentration camps, has died. He had just turned 103 in March.

The Deputy Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly representing Kauru state constituency,Dr Isaac Auta Zankai, and the member representing Zaria state constituency, Suleiman Dabo representing Zaria constituency have left the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) and joined the Labour Party( LP) in Kaduna state.

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN says its ministry has prosecuted 1,500 terrorism cases and currently collaborating with relevant agencies for the next phase of terrorism-related trials.