The Supreme Court of Nigeria has brought final closure to the decades-long legal saga surrounding the 1996 murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, ruling that the Lagos State Government effectively abandoned its appeal to reinstate prosecution against Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (retd.), the former Chief Security Officer to the late General Sani Abacha. This report was gathered…
Nigeria’s Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence handed to Maryam Sanda, overturning the Presidential clemency earlier granted by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and bringing a dramatic end to one of the Country’s most widely followed homicide cases. Sanda, daughter-in-law to a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, had been convicted on January…
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has struck out a suit filed by the Osun State Government, which sought to compel the Federal Government to release Statutory Allocations due to Local Government Councils (LGAs) in the State, while criticising the FG for failing to enforce an earlier judgment guaranteeing LGA financial autonomy. In a 6–1 majority…
