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Echoes From The Court Room

Presidential Election Tribunal Resumes Hearing, Adjourns APM’s Suit

The Presidential Election Petition Court resumed hearing the petitions challenging the outcome of the 2023 presidential election, which produced Bola Tinubu as president and...

Adamawa Election Petition Tribunal Relocated to Abuja

The Governorship/National and State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal for Adamawa State has been relocated from the state capital, Yola, to the Federal...

Presidential Tribunal Adjourns Obi’s Pre-Hearing Against Tinubu To May 19

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Today adjourned to Friday, May 19 for continuation of pre-hearing in the petition by presidential...

Supreme Court Adjourns Nnamdi Kanu’s Case to September

The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of the matter concerning the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu,...

Court Awards Cost of N10m Against Lawyer for Wrongly Advising Client

The Lagos High Court sitting at Yaba has ordered a lawyer, Mr. K. O. Bakare, to pay a N10million fine for encouraging his client...

The Journey of Inibehe Effiong to Correctional Center by Ndon Asian (Report of...

This is not my usual well written report, but an attempt to bring to the reading public what transpired in the lead up to...

Between Restorative Justice and Damning Consequences: Cost of N2.5m Against Prof. I.O. Smith SAN...

On Monday, 16th of May, 2022, Honourable Justice O. O. Ogunjobi of the High Court of Lagos State, after delivering a Ruling in an...

Unlikely Court Interpreter Saves the Day

In court today, a yellow skin middle aged man in his fifties was appearing for himself without a lawyer. Your Worship invited him to...

Breaking: Nnamdi Kanu’s Trial Begins, as Lawyers Plead with DSS to Have Access to...

As the trial of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu begins today, the officials of the Department of the...

Court Room Drama: The Silk vs The Senior Orator

By Ifeanyi Clement Nweke The judge spoke softly but strongly. His words hung in thin air as he stared down at his courtroom, scantly sprinkled...