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In this report, AJIBADE OMAPE writes on how the indiscriminate arrest of citizens have led to their unwanted and oftentimes illegal detention

The Lagos State Government is presently receiving backlashes after it paid a total sum of N200,000,000 to legal firms that represented and defended Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the governorship election petition tribunal. According to a document published on the website of the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency tagged “Letter Of Award Registered For January 2023” the sum of N50million each was awarded to four law firms designated as contractors.

A law firm, Folegal has volunteered, alongside other lawyers, to assist the students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in seeking legal redress over a recent raid on hostels and arrests by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Human rights lawyer and Principal of Festus Ogun Legal, Festus Ogun, who made this known on his X (formerly Twitter) handle on Thursday stressed his readiness to defend the students at the appropriate court of law, pro bono publico.

On October 16, 2023, a lawyer at the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja lamented that an inmate who had just been arraigned was rejected by

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Femi Falana, has condemned the appointment of the head of the EFCC and the ICPC from the same geopolitical.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been threatened with a lawsuit by a lawyer over the approved appointment of Ola Olukoyede as the new chairman of EFCC.

Human rights lawyer, Festus Ogun, has vowed to challenge President Bola Tinubu's appointment of Ola Olukayode as the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) President Tinubu on Thursday approved the appointment of Olukayode as the anti-graft agency's Chairman for a renewable term of four years in the first instance, pending Senate confirmation. Olukayode's appointment comes nearly four months after he suspended the embattled Chairman of the agency, Abdu...

The kind of smoke around the persona of President Bola Tinubu has now caused former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to go in search of fire...

The Ogun state government has announced the cancellation of the Independence Day celebration. The government said it aligns with the administration of Bola Tinubu.

Preliminary enquiries into the death of the late Nigerian singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad will begin on Friday.