The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has emphasised that the prerogative of mercy in cases involving serious economic and financial offences, among others, necessitates careful ...

Former governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, exercised his constitutional power of the prerogative of mercy just a week before he left office on May 29, 2019. He granted amnesty to some convicts in ...

In its bid to ensure justice for all and sundry, the Lagos State Government on Thursday inaugurated a nine-member Advisory Council on Prerogative of Mercy. State Attorney-General and Commissioner for ...

The Head of the Association of Urhobo Mayoral Family Crown (AUMFC), Eshanekpe Israel, popularly known as Mayor Akpodoro, has commended President Bola Tinubu for granting pardon to Kelvin Oniarah, ...

Mercy, when misapplied, becomes injustice in disguise. The recent exercise of the Presidential Prerogative of Mercy, which granted clemency and pardon to 175 convicts, has ignited a storm not of ...

By freeing convicted drug traffickers, fraudsters, illegal miners, kidnappers, and even the notorious husband-killer, Maryam Sanda, the president has turned the constitutional power of mercy into a ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court's dismissal of Datuk Seri Najib Razak's house arrest bid has taken away "the fullest prerogative of mercy" from the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Malay Rulers, says Tan ...

OTTAWA - New restrictions on the granting of criminal record suspensions, or pardons, are causing more former convicts to seek clemency under the rarely used Royal Prerogative of Mercy. According to ...

THE prerogative of mercy recently exercised by President Bola Tinubu is a needless distraction in a country grappling with multiple challenges. Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, ...