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Changing your name is a significant legal step that must be properly documented and recognized by law. As of the most recent update, the following are the official requirements for processing a change of name at the Supreme Court:

The federal government has approved a far-reaching policy tagged the Renewed Hope Nigeria First Initiative, which mandates all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) of government to prioritise Nigerian-made goods and services in government procurements. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Monday after the federal executive council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to him, the policy was aimed at putting Nigeria “at the centre of all business activities” in the country. Idris explained that the initiative, which is set to be backed by…

The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Kazeem Alogba, has raised concerns about the enforcement of regional court decisions within sovereign member states, citing political diversity and limited enforcement mechanisms as major obstacles. The lack of enforcement of ECOWAS Court judgments has remained a topical issue affecting the court’s effectiveness. Joining past leaders of the court in decrying the situation, the current President of the Court, Justice Ricardo Gonçalves, in April identified the non-enforcement of the court’s judgments and the failure to operationalise its arbitration jurisdiction as some of the major challenges confronting the institution. In a statement issued on…

Justice Yellin Bogoro of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, sentenced two women; Folake Adeoti and Modupe Adewuyi, to one year imprisonment each for hawking Naira notes in violation of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act. According to a Sunday statement posted on X by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the defendants were arraigned on separate one-count charges bordering on the illegal trading of currency by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the anti-graft agency. According to the EFCC, Adeoti, a repeat offender, having previously been convicted for the same offence before Justice Ibrahim Kala was apprehended…

Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court in Lagos, on Friday, sentenced one Agudosi Okechukwu to six months in prison for failing to declare foreign currencies at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. Okechukwu was arrested by operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service in December 2024 for failing to declare foreign currencies in the sum of £8,020 and $704 while attempting to travel. He had earlier declared £7,000 but concealed the remaining amounts. He was later handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for further investigation. He was arraigned on April 15, 2025, on a two-count charge…

A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, has sentenced a herdsman, Dan-Bello, to 10 years imprisonment for violating the state’s anti-open grazing law. Dan Bello, was alleged to have destroyed farm crops valued at N50 million. He was arraigned on a five-count charge of conspiracy, unlawful grazing, malicious damage, breach of peace and illegal entry. The Prosecuting counsel, P.O. Nwafor, said that Dan-Bello, on October 27, 2023, grazed his cattle on a farmland belonging to the National Palm Produce Association of Nigeria (NPPAN), located along Ago Panu–Ute Road in Owo Local Government Area. Nwafor said that the…

People in Nigeria may lose access to Facebook and Instagram after their parent company, Meta said it faced large fines and “unrealistic” regulatory demands from the Nigerian authorities. Last year, three Nigerian oversight agencies imposed fines on the US-based social media giant, totalling more $290 million (£218m) for violating various laws and regulations. Meta was unsuccessful in a recent attempt to challenge the decisions in the Federal High Court in Abuja. “The applicant may be forced to effectively shut down the Facebook and Instagram services in Nigeria in order to mitigate the risk of enforcement measures,” the company noted in…

A federal judge on Friday ruled that an executive order signed by President Donald Trump targeting a law firm that represented his 2016 presidential opponent was unconstitutional. US District Judge Beryl Howell ruled that the executive order targeting Perkins Coie violated the First, Fifth and Sixth Amendments, calling it a “blunt exercise of power” that “is not a legitimate use of the powers of the U.S. government or an American President” “The U.S. Constitution affords critical protections against Executive action like that ordered in EO 1423,” Howell, referring to the executive order, wrote in her 100-plus page opinion. “Government officials,…

A United Nations judge has been jailed for six years and four months after being convicted of forcing a young Ugandan woman to work as a slave in Britain. Lydia Mugambe, 50, was found guilty of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law, facilitating travel with a view to exploitation, forcing someone to work, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness after a trial at Oxford Crown Court. The trial was told Mugambe, a High Court judge in Uganda who was in the UK studying for a PhD, forced her victim to work as her maid…

A Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square Annexe has sentenced Andrew Nice Ominikoron, a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver in Lagos to death by hanging for the murder of 22-year-old fashion designer, Bamise Ayanwola. The verdict was delivered on Friday, May 2, 2025, by Justice Sherifat Sonaike. It would be recalled that Bamise had gone missing in February 2022 after boarding a BRT bus driven by Ominikoron.Her body was later found nine days after the incident fueling widespread outrage. The driver had kept mute after the incident. After Bamise’s disappearance was made public, he fled and went…