Lawyer

A Federal Capital Territory High Court has ordered Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) to pay the Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL), Dr Monday Ubani  N12 million…

Yomi Aliyu, lawyer of Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, has asked Department of State Services (DSS) to apologise for allegedly trampling on the rights of his client when the secret police raided his Ibadan house…

Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the request by Adeola Adedipe, a defence lawyer in the trial of former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abulrasheed Maina, to be allowed to withdraw from the case. Adedipe …

Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan, has announced that a 25-year-old lawyer, Bisola Ajayi, kidnapped at her residence in Port Harcourt last weekend has been rescued. Ajayi, fondly called Paulette, was abducted on Saturday…

Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has said it has set up a seven-man task force to rescue a lawyer, Bisola Paulette Ajayi, who was abducted on Sunday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. MDB earlier reported that the 25-year-old lady was trailed…

Ajibola Oluyede, lawyer to late Senator Buruji Kashamu, has alleged that the narcotics case against his client in the United States was a case of mistaken identity following an alleged falsification of evidence. Read Also: Breaking:…

Suspected Nigerian fraudster, Ramoni Abbas popularly known as Hushpuppi has been transferred from Chicago to California to face trial. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has accused Hushpuppi of funding his extravagant lifestyle…

Oluwatosin Ojaomo, the lawyer of suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has written a letter to the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, seeking his client’s release on bail.…

Dubai-based Nigerian, Ramon Abbas better known as Hushpuppi, who was arrested last month for alleged cyber fraud, has reportedly secured the service of a highly respected criminal defence attorney in Chicago, Gal Pissetzky. According…

An Abuja-based lawyer, Frank Tietie, says he has received death threats for working with the police in the investigation into the murder of one Adekunle Ekundayo in Abuja. Ekundayo was reportedly gunned down by unknown assailants while…

The Lagos State High Court at Igbosere has ordered the remand of Udeme Otike-Odibi, a female lawyer, at Kirikiri Prison for killing her 52-year-old husband, Symphorosa Otike-Odibi. Recall that on May 3rd, Udeme stabbed her husband to…

Udeme Odibi, the 47-year-old Lagos-based lawyer, who reportedly stabbed her husband to death, was supposed to travel abroad a day before the crime was allegedly committed, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. It was gathered that she…

A former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Dahiru Musdapher, has died. According to his younger brother, Muneer Musdapher who broke the news on Facebook, the jurist died in the early hours of today January 23rd at the age of 75. “My elder…