This defence remains a nuanced and contentious element of Nigerian criminal jurisprudence, permitting mitigation of liability for violent acts arising from grave and sudden provocation. While...
The inconsistency between the local government judgment and this emergency powers judgment is not a minor legal discrepancy. It is the fatal crack in the dam...
What unfolded in the Rivers State emergency declaration case reflects an old and uncomfortable truth: burial comes after death, not before it. By the time the...
Nigeria’s Supreme Court has affirmed the President’s constitutional authority to declare emergency rule and suspend elected officials, ruling in a split decision while stressing such actions...
The Supreme Court has dismissed Osun State’s suit against the Federal Government over withheld local government allocations, ruling that the state lacked the locus standi to...
Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Kabir Akanbi, announced in a statement on Thursday that the decision was made during the committee’s 169th plenary session, which...
The apex court held that the Appeal Court sitting in Kaduna was “right in so holding and ordering that the appellant be made to face a...
After returning to the White House in January, Trump directed federal agencies to prepare sweeping workforce reduction plans as part of wider efforts by the Department...
In the lead judgment that was delivered by Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme, the apex court invalidated the bail that was granted to the respondent on December 10,...
Trump invoked the law last month to deport Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador that holds thousands of that country’s gangsters.