Legal

A Ugandan High court has ordered the military and police to leave the home of opposition politician Bobi Wine following a petition by his lawyer. The ruling was delivered at the high court in Kampala early...

A Kano State high court (appeal division) has set aside the death sentence imposed on Yahya Sharif Aminu, a Kano-based singer, convicted for blasphemy. In the judgment delivered yesterday by the state Chief Judge, Justice Nuraddeen...

The Abuja division of the Federal High Court has clarified that it never made an order sacking the Prof. Dabiel Pondei led Interim management committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The clarification was...

A housewife identified as Suwaiba Shuaibu has been arrested for allegedly stabbing to death her husband’s 17-year-old fiancée, Aisha Kabir in Gimawa Village, Doguwa Local Government Area of Kano State. Police spokesman, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, confirmed...

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has submitted a complaint to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UN-WGAD) over the continued house arrest of Ugandan opposition figure, Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine. Wine,...

I have had the privilege of reading an earlier intervention by Durotimi David Owoeye Esq titled “DNA TEST AS PROOF OF PATERNITY: THE CURRENT POSITION OF NIGERIAN LAW”, wherein he ably captured the position of only one out...