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Ghana’s judiciary is taking bold steps to confront the rising threat of cybercrime as the nation’s digital economy expands rapidly across West Africa. In Accra this week, over 60 judges, prosecutors, and investigators participated in two Commonwealth symposiums aimed at sharpening their skills in handling cybercrime cases that affect both citizens and businesses. The training was supported by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and coordinated by the Commonwealth Secretariat. The sessions brought together justice and security experts from several agencies to build stronger collaboration against digital threats. Through simulated real-world cases, participants tested how Ghana’s legal and international…

The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) of the Body of Benchers has directed the suspension of Mr. Jonathan Chinedu Nwagwu, Esq., for a period of three years following his conviction for infamous conduct in a professional respect, including the misappropriation of client funds and professional negligence in handling client affairs. The decision, delivered on April 24, 2024, by Ebenezer Obeya, Esq., Life Bencher, came after extensive proceedings in Complaint No. BB/LPDC/360/2020 between Capt. Dada Olaniyi Labinjo, the Applicant and Managing Partner of Marina Law Chambers, and Mr. Jonathan Chinedu Nwagwu, the Respondent. The Committee found Nwagwu guilty of breaching Rules…

Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. The literature award was announced by the Nobel Committee at the Swedish Academy on Thursday. Krasznahorkai best known for his 1985 novel ‘Satantango’ was given the award “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” The writer will receive a 11 million-krona ($1.2 million) award, the Swedish Academy said in a statement. Satantango, a haunting, intricately structured novel, portrays a group of destitute people living in a decaying Hungarian village, before the fall of Soviet rule in Hungary.…

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday approved the conferment of 959 national honours and endorsed reforms to strengthen the funding framework for the Nigeria Police Force. This came as he presided over marathon meetings of the National Council of State and the Police Council at the State House, Abuja. Addressing State House correspondents after the meetings, the Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Affairs Office, Dr. Emanso Umobong, said the President approved the report of the National Honours Award Committee for 2024 and 2025, as well as special awards that were earlier bestowed by the President from January 2025 to date. According…

President Bola Tinubu has granted presidential pardon to Herbert Macaulay, Mamman Vatsa, and Farouk Lawan, alongside 14 others, following the approval of the national council of state. Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on information and strategy, announced the decision in a statement on Thursday. Vatsa, a major general and poet executed in 1986 for alleged treason, was posthumously pardoned nearly four decades after his death. Similarly, Macaulay, Nigeria’s nationalist and co-founder of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), also received a posthumous pardon. Macaulay, who was unjustly convicted by British colonial authorities in 1913, was…

Tech giant Google has announced a new educational initiative offering university students across six African countries free access to its premium AI Pro package for one year. The offer is targeting students 18 years and above in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, and will run from 7 October through 9 December 2025. The AI Pro tools will remain valid for 12 months after activation. Google made this known on its Google Gemini website, where it details the benefits of the AI free service to students. The service allows students to use the tools for research, creative projects…

In a pivotal victory for due process, the legal career of Idris K. Thany, Esq., remains fully intact after the High Court of Lagos State ruled on Monday, October 6, 2025, that his appeal against the Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) direction automatically operates as a stay of execution. ​The ruling, delivered by Hon. Justice I.O. Akinkugbe (Mrs.) at the Ikorodu Judicial Division, decisively settled the question of whether Mr. Thany could continue his professional practice following the LPDC’s direction imposing a two-year suspension on September 15, 2025. ​The Court’s Definitive Stance ​The issue arose during proceedings in the case…

The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) of the Body of Benchers has suspended Cyprian Obiora Ifeanyi Agwuna, Esq., from legal practice for two years after finding him guilty of infamous conduct for using insulting and disrespectful language against a sitting magistrate in Anambra State. The LPDC, sitting in Abuja, delivered its Final Direction on February 20, 2024, in Complaint No. BB/LPDC/290/2020, between Peter Okoye Nwankwo (Applicant) and C. O. Agwuna, Esq. (Respondent). The Committee, presided over by Ahmed Mustapha Goniri, Esq. (Life Bencher), also comprised Hon. Justice Aisha Bashir Aliyu (Chief Judge of Nasarawa State), Hon. Justice Halima I. Abdulmalik…

The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) of the Body of Benchers has found Mr. Michael Olalekan Olawoyin, Esq., a Lagos-based lawyer, guilty of infamous conduct in professional respect and consequently suspended him from legal practice for five years. The Committee also directed him to refund the sum of ₦13,270,000 to his client, Mr. Emmanuel Oyedele Oyekunle, within 30 days. The final direction, delivered on January 20, 2025, by Fidelis Mnyim, Esq., Acting Attorney-General of Benue State, on behalf of the Committee, followed a detailed hearing into case number BB/LPDC/461/2021, which alleged that Mr. Olawoyin fraudulently sold a property to the…

A Los Angeles jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $966 million to the family of Mae Moore, a California woman who died from mesothelioma, after finding that the company’s talc-based baby powder contributed to her illness. Moore, who passed away in 2021 at the age of 88, had sued J&J the same year, claiming its baby powder contained asbestos fibers that caused her rare and deadly cancer. The jury’s verdict, delivered late Monday, included $16 million in compensatory damages and a staggering $950 million in punitive damages, according to court filings. The award could, however, be reduced on…