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The Minister of Defence Maj Gen Bashir Magashi (rtd) has confirmed the escape of 64 members of the Boko-Haram sect from the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje. He said, “Well, we too heard the attack. The incident started between 10 and 10:25 am the security operatives recaptured some. What actually happened, they came in there numbers and released some of the inmates. We are now trying to set the kind of inmates they released. We are trying to see what we can do to see that all escapes within the prison accommodation are brought back to the prison yard. About…

The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee, LPPC, has shortlisted 129 lawyers for elevation to the rank of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN. Among those the legal body okayed for the coveted rank, are 73 practising lawyers and 56 academic applicants. The Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Hajo Sarki Bello, who doubles as Secretary of the LPPC, in a statement on Monday, disclosed that the 129 applicants underwent both the advocate filtration stages and academic pre-qualification exercise. Bello, urged members of the public that have anything against the appointment of any of the candidates, to indicate so before 4pm of July…

President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) following the sudden resignation of Justice Ibrahim Tanko on health grounds. Ariwoola thus becomes the third individual to occupy the top Judiciary job of the country in the life of this administration. Recall that Justice Walter Onnoghen also became the CJN under President Buhari’s administration before he resigned from office. Buhari administered the oath of office on Ariwoola at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The acting CJN was accompanied to the ceremony by some Justices of the Supreme Court. …

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad has resigned his appointment as the head of the nation’s judiciary on health grounds. It would be recalled that the CJN, was last week accused of corruption and professional misconduct by 14 of his brother Justices of the apex court. Justice Muhammad was said to have resigned on Sunday, but the news of his resignation became public on Monday morning. The Senior Special Assistant on Media to the CJN, Ahuraka Yusuf Isah told Tribune Online that his boss (CJN) was to declare a workshop organised for Judges opened at the National…

Nothing hurts the average Nigerian than losing money to fraud. It hits differently when they lose their money through fake bank alerts. That means someone played on their intelligence and stole from them. That hurts. Here are a few pointers to note to avoid being a victim of fake bank alerts. The advent of cashless policy is a good one. Cash-less Nigeria, according to Wikipedia, is a policy established in the year 2012 by the Central Bank of Nigeria to curb excesses in the handling of cash in the Nigerian federation. It prescribed cash handling charges on daily withdrawal above…

Nigerian lawyer, Ibrahim James Pam is amongst the 12 shortlisted candidates to assume office as the Registrar of the International Criminal Court(ICC). The successful candidate will in 2023 take over from Mr Peter Edward Lewis who was elected on March 28, 2018, for a period of five years, and sworn in on April 17, 2018. Before his election, Mr Lewis was a retired British prosecutor, serving from 2007 until 2016 as the Chief Executive of the Crown Prosecution Service under the Director of Public Prosecutions. His tenure expires on April 16, 2023. The list of the shortlisted candidates include Mr…

THE crisis of confidence rocking the Supreme Court of Nigeria has opened the gate to deeper rot in federal and state judiciary, Saturday Tribune has learnt. Justices of the apex court accused the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, of failing to take care of their welfare while taking care of himself and his family. One of the highlights of the petition authored by the 14 justices is the claim that eight of them recently admitted to the court have not given accommodation and befitting mobility that should pre-date their appointments. All the justices also complained about a…

There is a bizarre matter (FHC/ABJ/CS/177) ongoing at the Federal High Court Abuja. The plaintiffs are challenging the eligibility of Atiku Abubakar for another presidential run. Their claim is that he is ineligible not been a citizen of Nigeria by birth, a condition prescribed by section 131(a) of the Constitution. Even though he has denied filing a suit against Atiku, it is distressing that an otherwise ineffective Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, formally a defendant, has thrown himself into the centre of the suit via proxy by vigorously supporting the claim, submitting, through his counsel, Oladipo Okpeseyi, SAN,…

The House of Representatives has stepped down a motion seeking to address the deteriorating working conditions of judicial officers. The motion, moved by the Chairman House Committee on Judiciary, Onofiok Luke (PDP, Akwa-Ibom), sought to increase the budget of the judiciary and to increase the remuneration of judicial officers. Mr Onofiok’s prayers said the House should, “urge the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to upwardly review the remuneration of judicial officers in line with present economic realities; “Also urge the federal government to increase the budgetary allocation of the Judiciary for the upcoming fiscal year and provide Special Intervention Funds…

The prosecutors said the Ekweremadus were being charged for bringing a 15-year-old boy from Nigeria to the UK with the claim that he was to be given a better life in the UK Uxbridge Magistrates Court in London has dismissed former Nigerian Senate Vice President Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice Ekweremadu on bail after London Metropolitan Police charged them with conspiracy to harvest organs from children. The couple were arrested by police on Thursday and charged with conspiring to harvest the organs of a child they had brought to London. According to Arise TV, prosecutors say Ekweremadus is accused…