The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) yesterday confirmed that it actually has a tab on all politically exposed persons (PEPs’) banking transactions within and outside the country.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, on Friday, swore in Justice John Tsoho as acting Chief Judge (CJ) of the Federal High Court.

Nigeria’s President Muhammmadu Buhari on Wednesday sworn in Tanko Mohammad as Chief Justice of Nigeria. Mohammed, who will now be Nigeria's 18th CJN, became the acting CJN when the former CJN Walter Onnoghen was suspended on the grounds of false assets declaration. On 11 July 2019, he was nominated as CJN by the president barely…

For the former governor of Anambra State and the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, it is as if fate has destined them to share in the political evolution of Nigeria.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, yesterday urged the legislature to use its powers to sanitise the society and make it free of corruption by amending necessary laws.

The National Judicial Council (NJC) yesterday endorsed the appointment of Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria...

A human rights group, Access to Justice, has warned the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Mohammed, against taking ‘orders from the Presidency’ in appointing more justices for the Supreme Court following a report (not in The Guardian) that President Muhammadu Buhari had asked him to initiate the process of appointing five new…

Bankole Kayode was born in Jos, Plateau State in 1959. He earned an LLB from the Ogun State University, now Olabisi Onabanjo University between 1987 and 1991. He subsequently enrolled at the Nigerian Law School, Victoria Island, Lagos for the mandatory law school training between 1991 and 1992 before joining the chambers of Professor Wole…

In one of the charges, presidency alleged that before he was sworn in as Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria) he breached the code of conduct for public officers by omitting to declare a domiciliary (US Dollars) account No. 870001062650 maintained with Standard Chartered Bank of (Nig) Ltd, Wuse 2, Abuja, which is being…

A popular musician, Alhaji Kabiru Classic of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has emerged as the House of Reps member-elect representing Anka/Talata-Mafara federal constituency, Zamfara following Friday’s Supreme Court judgement. The judgement favoured other PDP candidates in Zamfara state. The Supreme Court on Friday nullified All Progressives Congress (APC) votes, declaring that the APC had…

A Supreme Court sitting in Cross River on Friday dismissed a case filed by the state government to challenge the suspension of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen. Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, in a split decision of six-to-one of a seven-man panel of the apex court, held that state government lacks the locus…

A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo has filed an action at the Federal High Court, Abuja, asking the court to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from appointment the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Muhammad Tanko as substiantial CJN.    Defendants in the suit, which he filed in the name of Malcom Omirhobo Foundation,…