Hon. Rotimi Amechi “Government must not be for one section of the Society.It must be for the rich and the poor,emphasizing the upliftment of the poor...”
The President of Mushin Customary Court in Lagos, Dr Abayomi Ipaye, last Saturday said that battering was one of the major reasons why people file for divorce in Nigeria. Ipaye told the newsmen in Lagos that eight out of every 10 wives who sought for divorce had been battered by their husbands at one time [...]
In a move to alleviate the difficulties associated with the administration of justice in the host community, the Nigerian Agip Oil Company and its joint venture partners have commissioned police barracks and magistrate court projects in Biseni Clan Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa. Speaking at the occasion, the NAOC General Manager, District, represented by [...]
A Clerk with Captino Global Concept Ltd., Chidima Ibe, 18, was on Wednesday charged before an Apapa Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, over an alleged N10 million theft. Four other persons charged with Ibe were: Chijioke Ibe, 21; Chukwudi Enyiegbulem, 22; George Ibe, 53; and Chidozie Nwosu, 23. The first accused, Ibe, the clerk, was alleged [...]
A Port Harcourt Chief Magistrate presided over by E. C. Woke has remanded two persons into prison custody for allegedly attempted to kill one Chimobi Anyanlo. The accused persons Elliot Ogbonna 40, and Emmanuel Ogbonna 30 are standing trial on two count charges bordering on attempted murder and intent to unlawfully kill and other related [...]
The authorities of the Rivers State Police Command has dragged a 60 year old man, Cyracus Enwerem before a Port Harcourt Chief Magistrate Court presided over by E. C. Woke for illegal possession of arms. The 60 years accused person, who hails from Abara in Etche Local Government Area of the state is standing trial [...]
Alhaji Jimoh Ajagbe V Layiwola Idowu Supreme Court of Nigeria. SC.271/2003 Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, J.S.C. (Presided and Read the Leading Judgment). Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, J.S.C. Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, J.S.C. John Afolabi Fabiyi, J.S.C Bode Rhodes-Vivour, J.S.C. Friday, 17 June, 2011 Appeal – Award of damages by trial court – Attitude of appellate court thereto [...]
The 2011 general elections in Nigeria were conducted pursuant to the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, the Electoral Act 2010 as amended and the Independent National Electoral Commission manual. After the elections, aggrieved persons / parties filed their petitions before the Presidential Election Tribunal, the Governorship and the National / [...]
Law is defined by Black’s Law Dictionary as: (1) The regime that orders human activities and relations through the systematic application of the force of politically organised society or through pressure backed by force. In such a society, the legal system respect and obey the law. (2) The aggregate of legislation, judicial precedents and accepted [...]
Three accused persons, Kingsley Nathan 20, Godfrey Lawrence 18 and Ikechukwu Omololo, 21 standing trial before a Chief Magistrate Court presided over by E.C. Woke standing trial on a two count charge bordering on felony, to wit, murder have been remanded in prison custody pending the filing of information by the office of the Director [...]
A Port Harcourt-based human rights lawyer, Barr. ThankGod Nmah has called on the youths of Egbeda in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State to be law-abiding and to shuna acts inimical to the growth of the society. Barr. Nmah, who made the call at the weekend in Egbeda during an interview with The Tide, [...]
