Former General Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association , NBA, Mr. Obafemi Adewale has said that the last week’s Supreme Court judgment on the dissolution in 2010 of democratically elected council officials in Ekiti State
© WikiMedia (United States Air Force) North Carolina’s Republican Governor Patrick McCrory [official website] signed into law Senate Bill 4 [PDF] Friday, which restricts the powers of the incoming governor Democrat Roy Cooper [official website],
The Thailand Parliament [official website, in Thai] unanimously approved a controversial amendment [text] to its Computer Crime Act of 2007 (CCA) [text, PDF] on Friday, which rights groups fear will give the government unrestricted power
A 12-year-old boy who has not yet been identified has been taken into police custody. German authorities say he attempted to blow up a market in Ludwigshafen town. In two separate incidemts, police say
The Acting Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Anthony Elujoba, has been summoned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over discrepancies in the payment of allowances without approval. In
An associate professor of law and former head of the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law of the Faculty of Law in University of Jos, Benedicta Audu, has been suspended by the school authority
The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the former Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, seeking for his reinstatement as governor of the state. Mr Nyako had approached the apex court to
The Socio-Economic Rights And Accountability (SERAP), has dragged the Nigerian Senate before the United Nations over its rejection of Ibrahim Magu as substantive chairman of the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). SERAP is petitioning the
© WikiMedia (Tony Webster) [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas [official website] on Thursday temporarily blocked [order, PDF] new Texas regulations [text, PDF] that would require the
© WikiMedia (CACorrections) The Mississippi Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday that a death row inmate may challenge the use of a controversial lethal injection drug. The court ruled 5-4 that Charles Ray
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