Tag: Lawyer
Lawyer Tasks Govt On Job Creation
An Ilorin based legal practitioner, Mr Segun Abayomi has urged government at all levels to tackle the rising unemployment among…
Journalist, lawyer in Kirikiri prison for blackmailing Bishop
A suspected blackmailer who claims to be a journalist has landed in Kirikiri Maximum Prison for attempting to extort money…
We didn’t complete investigation before charging lawyer to court – EFCC Witness
An EFCC witness Daniel Danladi Tuesday told an Ikeja high court that the anti-graft agency did not complete its investigations…
Lawyer seeks nationwide ban on hawking
An Ilorin based lawyer, Mr Tunde Jimoh has called on the Federal Government to impose a ban on hawking by…
Fake lawyer who practiced for 10 years arrested
Police command in Kwara state has arraigned a land speculator, Peter Itopa Adogun, for allegedly practising as a legal practitioner…
Trending: Judge admitted collecting bribe from lawyer – EFCC
An investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Danladi Daniel, has told Justice Aishat Opesanwo of the Lagos…
Lawyer challenges colleagues on tutelage
An Abuja-based legal practitioner, Mr Abiodun Ajayi, has challenged his colleagues on tutelage as means of sanitizing the legal profession.…
Lawyer sues Buhari, others N50bn over judges arrest
A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje, has filed a N50bn suit against President Muhammadu Buhari, the Department of State Services…
Lawyer, judicial worker kidnapped in Kogi
A lawyer and a judiciary worker in Kogi State have been abducted by gunmen believed to be kidnappers and taken…
Court orders FG to allow Dasuki access to his lawyers, family
The Federal Government today lost its bid at the Federal High Court Abuja to conduct secret trial of former National…
Another lawyer transferred money to Justice Yunusa, says EFCC
Akin Kuponiyi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has alleged that another Lagos senior lawyer also transferred N750,000 to…
Trial of lawyer husband killer begins 24 March
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Mrs. Yewande Oyediran, a lawyer who allegedly stabbed her husband, Lowo Oyediran, to death 2 February in their…
Lawyer husband killer’s case heads for high court
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN A lawyer, Mrs. Yewande Oyediran, who allegedly stabbed her husband, Lowo Oyediran, to death in Akobo Area of…
Why courts give conflicting judgments – Lawyer
An Abuja-based lawyer, Mr Abdul Mohammed has said that two seemingly similar cases could get different judgments as a result…
Lawyer arraigned over alleged N4.5m fraud
Paul Iyoghojie A Lagos-based legal practitioner, Barr. Chidi Udoije Amadi, 50, has been arrested by the operatives of the Force…
Lawyer, others arraigned over demolition of building
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 65-year-old legal practitioner, Barrister Olu Johnson, has been arrested and charged before Ejigbo Magistrates’ court for his…
Lawyer docked over failure to file tax return
Jethro Ibileke/Benin A Benin-based lawyer, Kingsley Obamogie, was Tuesday dragged before a Mobile Revenue Court sitting in Benin, by the…
Lawyer docked over failure to file tax return
Jethro Ibileke/Benin A Benin-based lawyer, Kingsley Obamogie, was Tuesday dragged before a Mobile Revenue Court sitting in Benin, by…
N13.5bn Arms Scam: Dasuki’s lawyers stall trial
Proceedings in the trial of Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), a former National Security Adviser, and five others before Justice Hussein…
Metuh’s self appointed lawyer withdraws suit against EFCC
Henry Ojelu Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa has withdrawn the enforcement of fundamental human rights suit he filed on behalf of incarcerated…
Oshiomhole to Okonjo-Iweala: I await your lawyer’s letter
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr.…
Saraki to defend self, as his lawyers walk away from CCT trial
Nigeria’s senate president, Bukola Saraki will defend himself at the Code of Conduct Tribunal after his legal team staged a…
Lawyer wants death sentence for corrupt persons
A Rivers-based lawyer, Mr Abdulkareem Dauda, has said that an amendment to the law governing corruption to impose death penalty…
You goofed on Saraki, lawyer tells online medium
A news story by an online portal, Sahara Reporters, that Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court Lagos, nearly…
ICPC arrests lawyer for allegedly defrauding FG of N928m
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has said it arrested a lawyer, Mr Adeola Adeyanju, for…
Lawyer re-arraigned over alleged fingering of girl, 9, inside court
Paul Iyoghojie A Lagos-based legal practitioner, Christopher Uzoamaka, aka Americana, has been re-arraigned before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, western…
Doctor faces trial for battering lawyer
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 62-year-old medical practitioner, Dr. Delo Dosumu has been arrested and charged before Isolo Magistrates’ court for allegedly…
Rape: Lawyer counsel parents on girl-child grooming
A human right lawyer, Mrs Olusola Ogunleye, has appealed to parents to always pay attention to what their girl-child wear,…
Lagos lawyer arraigned for N117.3m fraud
Henry Ojelu The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today arraigned a Lagos lawyer, Babatunde Ojo, over an alleged N117.3…
Lawyer Faces Trial For Slapping Colleague In Car
Paul Iyoghojie A lawyer operating at Igbosere Magistrates’ court, Lagos Island, western Nigeria, has been arrested and arraigned before a…