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Odinkalu Accuses FCT Minister Wike of Reducing Judicial System to Organised Crime

News Leverage Editor November 4, 2024

Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Professor Chidi Odinkalu has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike of…

Opinion: ‘Wiked’ Judges and ‘Nyesomized’ Courts – Odinkalu

News Leverage Editor October 27, 2024

Sylvanus Nsofor was a little-known Justice of the Court of Appeal when he breathed oxygen into Muhammadu Buhari’s political aspirations with his dissent in the…

Fubara Vows to Defend Course of Justice, Pledges to Support Judges

News Leverage Editor October 17, 2024

Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has vowed to defend the course of justice and protect the interest of the State and its people at…

Opinion: Nigerian Judiciary as Lost Hype of Justice – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor November 25, 2023

The idea that the “judiciary is the last hope of the common man” is a banal, flyblown cliché that is habitually huckstered in Nigerian judicial…

Be Realistic in your Expectation – Ikpeazu to Abia State Judiciary

News Leverage Editor April 21, 2021

At the Abia State Government House in Umuahia on Tuesday., Governor Okezie Ikpeazu reiterated his commitment towards the financial autonomy of the State Judiciary.

‘Rid Judiciary of Corruption’ – Akpata Charges NJC

News Leverage Editor December 15, 2020

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olumide Akpata, has called for the independence of the judiciary and appealed to the National Judicial Council to…

Judiciary: Elites Tries to Influence Selection of Judges – Osinbajo

News Leverage Editor August 9, 2020

The Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo has stated that the problem of the Judiciary is that the Nigerian elites want to influence the selection and…

NFIU Probes CJN Tanko’s Bank Details

News Leverage Editor September 14, 2019

The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has written to investigate the financial transactions of the principal heads in the judiciary. They wrote that the account…

Update On Onnoghen’s Case: Executive and Judiciary Has Failed Nigerians – Falana

News Leverage Editor January 28, 2019

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Human Rights Activist, Femi Falana has said that both the Executive and the Judiciary arms of government have failed Nigerians…