Access to Justice (A2J) has sued the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC) and the National Judicial Council (NJC) over the appointment of justices to the Supreme Court.

A group, Citizens For Steven Kefas, has asked the Nigeria Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate the plight of Steven Kefas who has been imprisoned in the past 139 days over unfounded allegations.

I honestly think that is the ideal situation but in reality, it looks practically impossible. This is so giving the constitutional provisions relating to the appointment of judicial...

In a letter dated September 10, 2019, the NFIU said the information being sought include account names and numbers of the officials. The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has requested banks to forward the account details of all legislative and judiciary officials in the country.

The Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday dismissed a preliminary objection brought before it by a former judge of the court, Justice Rita Ngozi Ofili-Ajumogobia...

Once again, Justice Walter (Samuel Nkanu) Onnoghen (born 22 December, 1950) is on my mind. As you well know, dear readers, the Cross River State indigene I do not know from Adam, as the saying goes, was the Chief Justice of our country - until very recently when he was viciously kicked out of office.…

A Kogi High Court sitting in Koton-Karfe has ruled that the executive and legislature could not remove the state Chief Judge, Justice Nasir Ajanah, without recourse to the National Judicial Council (NJC). It also declared that Chief Registrar of the state High Court held a statutory position as the judiciary’s accounting officer and therefore, not…

It was not the pressure of guilt that made presiding justice of the presidential election petition tribunal Zainab Bulkachuwa to quit yesterday. She was secure in the rightness of staying on the panel if she chose. For the panel dismissed the application filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the…

A court of appeal sitting in Abuja Friday refused to rule on the status of the order of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) suspending the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen. The CCT sacked Onnoghen as the chief justice of Nigeria and convicted him for false assets declaration on a six-count charge. Nigeria…

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has asked the National Judicial Council (NJC) to review upward salaries of judges to enhance their performance.

The National Judicial Council (NJC) yesterday presented a copy of the Revised Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers at the resumed...

Elder statesman and Ikenne, Ogun State community leader, Yinka Ogunmuyiwa has asked the National Judicial Council (NJC) to sanction a high court judge for allegedly violating the code of conduct of judicial officers.    Ogunmuyiwa made the prayers in a petition, which he wrote against the judge of the Ogun State high court, dated March…