Taraba State Coordinator with the Chief executive officer Jamsson Kolleya Abbas last Friday paid a courtesy call on the Deputy Controller of the Jalingo Custodial and Correctional Centre, Superintendent Ezikiel Kagah. Issues were discussed regarding how the authority of the Taraba Custodial Centres will support the State Legal Aid Office […]

The Director General, Legal Aid Council Mr Aliyu B. Abubakar led a team of Lawyers from the Council to visit Keffi Correctional Home in Nasarawa State on the 11th of March, 2021. The Director General and the legal team personally interviewed awaiting trial inmates. Notably among the inmates were 39 […]

The Director-General Legal Aid Council was in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital on the 22nd day of February 2021 on an official visit to the state.  On the 23rd day of February, the Director-General paid a courtesy visit to the Deputy Governor of Borno state Usman Kadafur, He was accompanied […]

Hamisu was arrested in the year 2013 and arraigned before High Court 5 Kano in Charge No. K/104c/2013 for the offence of Rape. The presiding judge (Justice Tani as she then was) took all prosecution and defence witnesses in the case. At the eve of prosecution and defence Counsels filing […]

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has convicted as charged one Dennis Agaya Kiyede, aged 52 for the offence of rape. In his judgement, Justice John Adeyeye held that “The prosecution has established that offence of rape was committed by the accused person, I find him guilty […]

Funmi Quadri & Co, publishers of Supreme Court Judgments and other publications, paid a visit to Legal Aid Council headquarters in Abuja on the 16th of February 2021 during which they presented as part of its corporate social responsibility, electronic versions of the Law Companion. Funmi Quadri SAN, who led […]

It was a good way to begin the year in Legal Aid Council Asaba, Delta State office on the 6th of January, 2021 when the thrio of Chukwudi Uche, Friday Joseph and Friday Chinedu were discharged by High Court Asaba for the offences of Conspiracy and Armed robbery. The accused […]

The joy of 9 (nine) inmates remanded at the Nigerian Correctional Service Centre in Owerri, Imo State knew no bound on the 22nd of December, 2020 when the Chief Judge of Imo State, Hon. Justice l.O. Agugua led other Judges of the State High Court to conduct gaol delivery at […]

The legal Aid Council has organized this year intensive in-house capacity building for staff of the council in South-South Zone in order to boost their productivities. The event which took place in Uyo recently with the theme “setting a new agenda for Legal Aid Council, Nigeria” is for the betterment […]

History was made on the 12th and 13th of October 2020 when the Governing Board of Legal Aid Council of Nigeria (LACON)  held its retreat (the first of its kind) in Kano, Nigeria. In his welcome address, the Chairman Governing Board of LACON Mr. Suraj  Sa’eda SAN urged the Hon. […]