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  The South-West governors and some senior lawyers on Wednesday condemned the exchange of words between the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu and a police officer at Magodo Phase II on Tuesday. The governors, in a statement by their Chairman and Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, particularly took a swipe at the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka Lawmakers of the 7th Anambra legislature have unanimously reprimanded the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami over what they saw as unguarded statements about the security situation in the state. The lawmakers in a motion of urgent public importance moved by the majority leader of the legislature and member representing Awka-south one ...

The Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Tuesday, said the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has been arrested. The Punch reported that Kanu will soon be brought before the Federal High Court where he jumped bail. Malami stated this at a press briefing at the Ministry of Justice in Abuja on Tuesday. He stated that Nnamdi ...

The Federal Government on Tuesday insisted that all those violating the suspension order it placed on the operations of the micro-blogging and social media platform, Twitter, would be prosecuted. The Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Umar  Gwandu, stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents. ...

Casmir Nwafor In the past few days the country has been entertained by two men at the helm of leadership of the country. These are men who should know better, who by their utterances and actions should be peace makers and men of integrity. The first is a round peg in a square hole who is going down as the ...

By Obiaruko Christie Ndukwe The conversation elicited since the Asaba declaration of the Southern Governors of Nigeria is still ongoing but not with the unexpected clap back from different groups and individuals. Since the decision by the Governors to ban the much controversial Open Grazing, there has been a round of applause for the once regarded docile leaders, cutting across ...

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, on Thursday came under fire for dismissing Southern governors’ ban on open grazing of cattle. The Southern Governors’ Forum, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the Senate spokesman, Ajibola Basiru and others, who criticised the AGF, said his comment fell short of what Nigerians expected from the chief law officer ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari requesting him to “instruct Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation to take immediate steps to expeditiously, diligently, effectively and fairly prosecute high-profile corruption cases, and to publish details of the whereabouts of allegedly missing case files, as well ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to “urgently instruct Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation to withdraw the proposed executive bill to amend the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] Act, which if passed and signed into law will severely undermine the commission’s ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal High Court, Abuja to order President Muhammadu Buhari to “publish details of loans that have been obtained by the government since May 29, 2015, including the interest rate, the total amount of debts that have so far been incurred by this government, as well as details of the projects on ...