Legal

President Muhammadu Buhari, has signed the Coronavirus Disease Health Protection Bill 2021 making the use of face masks in public places mandatory, among other measures to curtail the further spread of COVID-19. The Chairman of the...

The international lawyers who were representing alleged Nigerian-Dubai-based fraudster Abass Ramon well known as Ray Hushpuppi have applied to withdraw from his case. Gal Pissetzky and Vicki Podberesky said Mr Abbas stopped communicating with them and...

A Kaduna State High court presided over by Justice Gideon Kurada has ordered the Nigerian Correctional Service to evacuate the wife of the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Zeenat Elzakzaky to an...

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...