By Innocent Anaba The recent allegations against the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, which sat on appeal over the Abia Govwernorship Election Tribunal, has continued to elicit reactions. Nigerian Coalition for Justice, a civil society group,  had petition the National Judicial Council (NJC), to investigate allegation of corruption in the process that led […]

By Onyema Omenuwa If Lagos pro-democracy, constitutionaland human rights law group, the Human Rights Law Service (HURILAWS) has its way, the National Assembly will cease to make rules of procedure for courts in respect of election matters. Really, the group has embarked on a quest to achieve this feat, which promises to alter political equations […]

President of the West African Bar Association (WABA), Femi Falana has said that there was no political will to pursue the present anti-corruption campaign in Nigeria, adding that the rule of law policy of the government was also slowing down the war against corruption. Falana who spoke at a roundtable on ‘Corruption and Public Service […]

By Hessington Okolo According to the Black’s Law Dictionary sixth edition, Amnesty means ‘a sovereign act of forgiveness for past acts, granted by a government to all persons ( or to certain class of persons) who have been guilty of crime or delict, generally political offenses- treason, sedition, rebellion, draft evasion, and often conditioned upon […]

By Kinsgsley Adegboye & Olasunkanmi Akoni It was a mammoth crowd of residents of Ajegunle, popularly known as “jungle or ghetto city”, that trooped out to identify with this year’s tree planting ceremony organised by Lagos State Government. The residents who were fully mobilised by the state officials for the tree planting campaign had converged […]