The Nigerian Bar Association has paid a befitting glowing tribute to Mrs. Ranti Abosede Daudu who has just passed on. I read the tribute over and over again. Painfully, the NBA did not disclose that […]
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) on Thursday announced the appointment of 30 legal practitioners to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN. The Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Hadizatu Mustapha, made the […]
Mr. Ibrahim Magu was appointed as Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in November 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari. The appointment was made by the President sequel to section 171 (1) of […]
Festus Keyamo, a human rights lawyer, and Akinlolu Osinbajo, brother of Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, are among the 30 candidates approved as senior advocates of Nigeria (SAN). The Legal Practitioner’s Privilege Committee (LPPC) had earlier […]
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that the executive branch has a ” robust mechanism” to resolve any differences between it and the legislative arm of government. Mr. Mohammed stated this […]
I was flabbergasted and perused, to borrow a phrase once used by my senior school mate, when I read stories last week about billionaire kidnapper Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans dragging the Police Inspector General, Lagos […]
The lawyer standing for kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, aka Evans, has lost yet another case in court. Evans’ counsel, Olukoya Ogungbeje, was defeated on Friday, when Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court in […]
Recently the embattled President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. A. B. Mahmoud SAN asked the federal government to terminate the investigation of all corrupt judges in the country. With such support from the leadership […]
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, has cautioned judges against allowing technicalities stand in the way of dispensing justice in the country. Mr. Onnoghen made the remark on Monday in Abuja when he declared […]
Babatunde Fashola, minster of power, works and housing, says there are aspects of the 2017 appropriation act that violate the constitution, suggesting that the judiciary may have to explain how far lawmakers can go in […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued the Federal Government and the Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola, SAN over “their collective failure, refusal and/or negligence to enforce their own directives to […]
The government of President Muhammadu Buhari just boxed itself into a corner and the National Judicial Council (NJC) is very pleased to beat the government with a big stick. After last year’s dramatic arrest of […]
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has signed two new laws that would help facilitate access to more affordable credit facilities for businesses in the country. In a statement on Tuesday, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo’s spokesman, listed the […]
Jiti Ogunye is an innovator and original thinker in the Nigerian legal space. He engineered a debate on Plea Bargain which eventually led to his publication of “The Imperative of Plea Bargaining 2005” after thorough […]
Lagos State Government has said it has concluded plans to review the existing Newspaper Law in the state to effectively regulate their activities. State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, disclosed this Tuesday […]
The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has said the Senate will pass the Whistle Blower Protection Bill in July 2017. He made this known at the launch of “Antidotes for Corruption: The Nigerian Story”, […]
…If I were presented with an option between secession or a return to status quo ante (where we were before the military putsch of 1966), though a highly nuanced position for some influenced by ethnic, […]
Kumai Bayang Aka’ahs, a supreme court justice, says treasury looters should be barred from running for office for some years. He also advocated for the use of plea-bargain in the fight against corruption, saying it […]
A former Chief of Army Staff during the Second Republic, Lt. Gen. Alani Akinrinade (retd), has criticised members of the the National Assembly, saying they are a “bunch of clowns.” According to the 77-year-old, the […]
This week’s pledge by the Minister of Mines & Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, to work with a Russian firm to reactivate the Aluminium Smelting Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, in Ikot-Abasi, is in clear violation of […]
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