About 100 students received tailoring materials from the House of Oduduwa Foundation at the Ojaja Fashion Training Programme launch.
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Law Digest
Nigeria, others worry about illicit $100bn flow from Africa
Experts from within and outside Africa recently converged on Abuja to find the solution to the scourge of illicit flow of money, which, more recent reports say, bleed Nigeria and other African countries of about $100bn annually. ADE ADESOMOJU reports The High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa, chaired by a former President […] …
Imo prison denies maltreating remanded 112 IPOB women
Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri There was an outrage in Owerri,the Imo State capital, on Tuesday after the authorities at the Owerri Federal Prisons denied family members access to the 112 women who were arrested and remanded in custody for demanding to know the whereabouts of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The […] …
Hoodlums set Imo magistrates’ court on fire
Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri Some yet-to-be-identified hoodlums numbering over 15 have attacked the Imo State Magistrates’ Court in Orlu, by setting it ablaze. Our correspondent gathered that the fire destroyed all the documents in the court’s documents section before it was quenched. The magistrates’ court shares the same premises with the state high court in Orlu. […] …
Transfer my case from Justice Nyako, Magu tells CJ
Oladimeji Ramon The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has urged the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice, Adamu Abdul-Kafarati, to transfer all the lawsuits challenging his appointment as the EFCC helmsman from Justice Binta Nyako. The lawsuits are 11 in number and they have all been consolidated […] …
Voter registration: Lawyer sues INEC, seeks extension till 2019
Oladimeji Ramon A legal practitioner, Olumide Babalola, has approached the Federal High Court in Lagos, urging the court to declare that it is unlawful for the Independent National Electoral Commission to close registration for Permanent Voter Cards in August. Ahead of the general elections next year, INEC had pegged the deadline for voters’ registration at […] …
Judges’ elevation opens ACJA to fresh debate
Lawyers are divided in their opinions on the practicability of Section 396(7) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, which permits judges elevated to the Court of Appeal to return to the high court to conclude the partly-heard criminal cases in their dockets, ADE ADESOMOJU reports The recent elevation of 12 judges from the […] …
National Assembly perfected budget fraud under Jonathan – Falana
In this interview with OLADIMEJI RAMON, human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Femi Falana, shares his views on the controversy trailing the 2018 national budget The 2018 budget, like the previous budgets, was passed into law last week, in the middle of the year; does this call for any concern? Of course, […] …
Church liable for injury sustained by invitees at crusade venue —Court
…as court orders Lagos church to pay injured crusade-goer N9m Ade Adesomoju, Abuja Miss Tamara Egbedi on January 22, 2010 attended Lagos-based The Chapel of Liberty’s crusade to seek God’s favour in the new year only to be rushed away from the venue at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos State, after sustaining injuries that would […] …
CJN’s panel member, Daudu, faults Supreme Court’s anti-delay judgment
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Joseph Daudu, and some other Senior Advocates of Nigeria are not comfortable with the new regime where accused can no longer have their trials suspended while their appeals against the charges instituted against them are pending before the Court of Appeal or the […] …