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The National Judicial Council has raised concerns about a proposal by the House of Representatives to empower the Nigerian Bar Association to sanction and remove corrupt judges. On March 25, 2025, the House of Representatives passed a bill seeking to amend the 1999 Constitution by introducing provisions for the removal of corrupt judges from the judiciary. The bill proposes that the NBA should receive petitions against such judicial officers, consider the defense of the petitioned officer, and take further steps on the matter. Reacting to the bill, the Deputy Director of Information of the NJC, Kemi Ogedengbe, questioned the feasibility…

The government of the United Kingdom has released a list of unclaimed estates and the names of people believed to be the owners, which include 58 Nigerians who passed away in the UK, leaving behind their estates. These estates, termed “Bona Vacantia”, remain unclaimed and have become the property of the Crown The list includes the names, dates of birth and death, places of death, and marital status of the deceased individuals.​ The UK government, via its website, stated that the list is updated every working day, noting that newly advertised estates appear at the top of the list. “If…

Vice President Kashim Shettima has said that the Federal Government was working on a review of the Land Use Act to make it conform with current global realities. He spoke at a three-day National Land Conference with the theme: ‘Reforming Land Governance for Sustainable Development in Nigeria’, organised by the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) and Johnbull Amayaevbo Foundation. The Vice President said the government was also working to establish a sustainable land administration system. Represented by the Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Senator Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia, the Vice President said the Land Use Act…

Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, minister of interior, has condemned the shooting of an immigration officer allegedly on the orders of a Chinese company operating in Nigeria. Tunji-Ojo spoke at a stakeholders’ sensitisation workshop on implementing the Nigeria visa policy 2025 on Thursday in Abuja. The minister condemned the incident, which happened in Niger state, describing it as an “attack on Nigeria”. “I will not go to any country, open a company, and say the immigration service cannot come out. I will not do that,” Tunji-Ojo said. “I don’t want to mention the company here, but they shot one of our immigration officers.…

Hon. Justice Olufunke Anuwe of the Abuja Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court has nullified the guideline issued by the Head of Service of the Federation, Hon. Minister of Education and Ministry of Defence on the implementation of Teacher Retirement age for being inconsistent with the Harmonized Retirement Age for Teachers in Nigeria Act 2022. Justice Anuwe held that the provisions of the purported Guidelines are inconsistent with the Harmonized Retirement Age for Teachers Act and that the Act did not vest any powers on anybody, authority or office to make any regulation or guidelines or set out criteria…

A Kwara State High Court in Ilorin has sentenced three artisans to death by hanging for the brutal murder of a fellow mechanic, Saheed Lawal, in Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State. The convicts, Isiaka Jimoh, Lekan Ahmed, and Adebayo Saheed, were found guilty of culpable homicide after they tortured Lawal to death over allegations of motor oil theft. The case, prosecuted by the Kwara State Ministry of Justice, was led by Director of Public Prosecutions Ayoola Akande. The trio were charged with conspiracy and culpable homicide, offenses punishable by death under Section 221 of the Penal Code, CAP.…

The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill for second reading, seeking to amend the Constitution to allow the Nigerian Bar Association to receive petitions against corrupt judicial officers and consider the defence of the petitioned officer. Titled, “A Bill for an Act to provide for the presumed resignation from Office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, justices and judges of certain courts in Nigeria and for related matters,” the proposed law was sponsored by the lawmaker representing Ogbaru Federal Constituency, Anambra State, Afam Ogene. The bill, which was one of the 40 passed for a second reading during…

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has raised the alarm that the slave trade has returned to African soil with a “One-sided ferocity,” made even more obscene and blasphemous by being disguised as a religious mandate. Speaking at the United Nations’ annual ceremony in observance of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Soyinka lamented the persistent threats to Africa’s self-recovery after centuries of subjugation. “Chibok – plus its insatiable clones and enabling environment – places a searing question mark on Africa’s authentic self-recovery after centuries of being mere annotations in the histories of…

The Supreme Court has dismissed claims that Justice Emmanuel Agim accompanied the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to the recent convocation ceremony of the University of Calabar (UNICAL). The clarification came after mixed reactions trailed a photo where Justice Agim was seated beside Wike, who was also honoured at the event. Justice Agim read the recent lead judgement of the Supreme Court on the political crisis in Rivers State. The February 28 judgement informed the declaration of the state of emergency in the state by President Bola Tinubu. Speaking on the reactions that trailed pictures from the…

As part of its golden jubilee, the University of Calabar is said to have held a special convocation ceremony on Saturday, 22 March, 2025 where it handed out honours to all manner of persons. The Chancellor of the University is Aminu Ado Bayero, the deposed Emir of Kano. Present at that event also were Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and Nigeria’s most prolific political litigant; as well as Justice Emmanuel Akomaye Agim, a senior Justice of the Supreme Court who delivered the leading decision in the recent judgment of that court concerning the withholding of the federal…