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Seventeen legal practitioners have been sanctioned by the Body of Benchers for professional misconduct following the unveiling of the 2025 Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) report at its second annual lecture in Abuja on Thursday, March 5, 2026. The conference, themed “Body of Benchers: Beyond Call to Bar,” was attended by senior members of the bar and bench, including the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, GCON; the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN; the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN; the President of the Court of…

An Oyo state high court sitting in Ibadan has restrained members of the electoral committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA) from performing any function relating to the association’s 2026 national officers’ election. The court also barred Afam Osigwe, the NBA president, from taking steps toward constituting the electoral committee or interfering in the conduct of the election pending further proceedings. In an ex parte order delivered on March 4, G. A. Opayinka, the presiding judge, granted the application filed by four lawyers challenging the legitimacy of the electoral process. The applicants are Ibrahim Lawal, Raymond Oki, Omotan Olusola Ogunmodede,…

A United States district court has sentenced Paulinus Okoronkwo, a former senior executive of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, to 87 months in federal prison over a 2.1 million dollar bribery scheme linked to a Chinese oil company. Okoronkwo, who previously served as a general manager in the upstream division of the now restructured Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, was convicted on multiple counts including transactional money laundering, tax evasion and obstruction of justice. The sentence was handed down by John Walter, who also ordered the former oil executive to pay $923,824 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. In addition,…

The decorated acting Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu, has declared that the era of impunity in the Nigeria Police Force is over, vowing to enforce a regime of zero tolerance to corruption and human rights abuses. Disu made the declaration on Wednesday shortly after President Bola Tinubu decorated him with his new rank at the State House, Abuja. Speaking to State House correspondents after the ceremony, the new police chief outlined his priorities, emphasising that Nigerian citizens, not politicians, are the ultimate bosses of the police. “I will let them (fellow policemen and women) know that the era of impunity…

A fire outbreak has reportedly engulfed the old terminal of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, a facility currently undergoing a multi-billion-naira renovation. Details surrounding the incident remain unclear as of the time of filing this report, but the affected terminal, which is part of the airport’s older infrastructure, is currently being renovated as part of efforts to upgrade facilities and improve passenger experience. Confirming the development to PUNCH Online, Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Henry Agbebire, said authorities were already on the ground managing the situation. “We are aware of…

A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, has dismissed two separate suits challenging the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission’s statutory mandate to investigate corruption-related offences against former state lawmakers. The Court dismissed the suits filed by two former members of the Abia State House of Assembly, Hon. Kalu Chikwendu and Hon. Apugo Chukwudi J., who had sought to restrain the Commission from inviting them in connection with a petition concerning their activities while in office. The suits, marked FHC/UM/CS/108/2025 and FHC/UM/CS/109/2025 respectively, contended that Section 28 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000, under which they…

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has rewarded Mr. Solanke Francis Taiwo, a primary school teacher at Ansa-Ur-Deen Main School I, Kemta Lawa, Abeokuta, with a two-bedroom bungalow. The governor also presented him with the keys to a brand-new car donated by the Federal Government for emerging as the Overall Best Primary School Teacher in Nigeria for 2025/2026. Mr. Solanke had earlier received a cash award of ₦50 million from the Federal Government at the National Teachers’ Summit in Abuja in recognition of his outstanding performance and dedication to education. Governor Abiodun handed over the car keys to the award-winning…

It was a bright Friday morning in Lagos, and Mrs Vero Ajieh was in high spirits. Her voice was sharp and cheerful, her face glowed with joy and anticipation. Friday, May 30, 2025, was no ordinary day for her. She was counting down to 10:20 pm, when she would board a flight out of Lagos, Nigeria, to Calgary, Canada, to visit her daughter. By mid-morning, her son, Kelvin Ajieh, with whom she was staying in Lagos, had carefully packed her luggage ahead of her scheduled departure. As the day stretched on, Kelvin drove his mother from his home in Ajah…

A review of the Neconde OML 42 / Nestoil case At the Supreme Court, where legal doctrine often intersects with commercial reality, Neconde Energy Limited has placed before the apex court a dispute that could redefine the limits of receivership and corporate self-representation in Nigeria. In Appeal No: SC/CV/48/2026, the company poses a seemingly simple yet far-reaching question: can a company under receivership be stripped of the right to appoint its own counsel when the validity of that receivership is itself under judicial challenge? Wale Jacobs writes Ehat began as a commercial dispute involving an oil asset has evolved into…

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