The Anambra government has vowed to continue with the demolition of unapproved structures and prosecute owners of such buildings for gross violation of the law. Mr Chike Maduekwe, Managing Director of Anambra State Physical Planning Board (AnPPB), said this at the continued demolition exercise in Nkisi Layout, Onitsha on Thursday. In Enekwasumpu, Obosi area, the…

Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL) on Wednesday, denied allegations that he solicited for nude photographs of the female student. Ndifon, denied the allegations before Justice James Omotosho of a Federal High Court in Abuja while being cross examined by the the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related…

The management of Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun, has explained why its law programme was suspended for one year by the Joint Admissiion

The management of Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, has said that the recent one-year ban on admission into KWASU’s law programme does not affect students currently running their programmes in its Faculty of Law. The Acting Director, University Relations, Dr. Saeedat Aliyu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Ilorin. Dr. Aliyu said the…

The Chairman of Owan East Local Government Area (LGA) of Edo State, Prince Aminu Okodo-Kadiri, on Thursday, said his purported impeachment and that of his deputy, Clement Ojebuovbo, is unconstitutional and illegal. The impeachment was initiated by councillors of the council's legislative arm over alleged misconduct against the duo. Okodo, who addressed journalists in Benin…

Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe has signed the state’s 2025 Appropriation and Finance Bills into laws. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buni had on Oct 30, presented the bills worth N320.8 billion to the state House of Assembly for the 2025 fiscal year. The assembly had earlier passed the proposed expenditure…

The Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, has signed into law the 2025 appropriation bill of over N1.558 trillion. Bago performed the statutory duty after the State Assembly had passed the budget within a week Bago lauded the efforts of the legislators for the expeditious scrutiny and passage of the bill, describing it as unprecedented.…

No fewer than 196 persons were arrested by the Environmental Sanitation Enforcement Officers in Nasarawa State for violating sanitation laws. Mr Garba Rosha, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, disclosed this while briefing newsmen after the sanitation exercise on Saturday in Lafia. Rosha explained that the sanitation defaulters were mostly commercial motorists.…

To ensure that Nigerians have access to legal services regardless of their financial or social status, the European Union (EU), in partnership with the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IIDEA), is supporting the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in providing free legal advice and services to residents of Ikorodu, Lagos State. As part of…

Gabon and Equatorial Guinea faced off Monday at the International Court of Justice, hoping to resolve a decades-old scrap over the sovereignty of three disputed islands in potentially oil-rich waters. The two West African nations have been squabbling over the 30-hectare (74-acre) island of Mbanie and two smaller low-lying islets, Cocotier and Conga, since the…

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No fewer than nine alumni of the Faculty of Law at Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo have been appointed judges of the Lagos High Court. The nine newly appointed judges are of the 13 recently appointed to the Lagos State High Court, marking the highest number of appointees from LASU in history, the institution in…