Ahead of this week’s election of the lawyers’ umbrellabody’selectionintoNationalofficesthe Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), membersof thewigandthegownincludingaSeniorAdvocate of Nigeria andFIDA Regional Vice-President, Africa (North & West) , Mrs. Victoria Olufunmilayo Awomolo, an International Consultant, Mediator and Arbitrator, Dr. Babafemi A. Badejo have endorsed MsGaniatAdetutuSiyonbolafor theexalted post of 1st Vice-President of the association. According to them, Siyonbola, […]
AKEEM NAFIU writes that lawyers have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to heed the Senate’s call for disengaging service chiefs over rising insecurity. They said the nation’s security architecture should be rejigged to overcome the menace For the second time in six months, lawmakers at the Red Chambers are demanding the removal […]
…as CBN denies National Theatre’s handover to banks Justice Ayokunle Faji of a Federal High Court, Lagos at the weekend struck out an application seeking to reverse an alleged handover of the National Theatre to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and others in a suit challenging the Federal Government’s handover pending before […]
The National Industrial Court (NIC), Lagos State division has granted an order for immediate payment of harmonized pensions toretireesof the NigerianNationalPetroleumCorporation (NNPC), putting sealed lips to controversy overinequalityarisingfrompensionbeingreceived by retired staff of the nation’s giant corporation. The arbitration court in a judgment delivered by Justice Elizabeth Oji, ordered NNPC and the NNPC Pension Fund […]
The Rights Enforcement and Public Law Centre (REPLACE) in partnership with the Rule of Law and Anti- Corruption Programme (ROLAC) of the British Council in collaboration with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) have embarked on a project of community sensitisation and provision of free legal aid clinics to vulnerable persons in Nigeria, particularly in […]
Akeem Nafiu The Rights Enforcement and Public Law Centre (REPLACE) in partnership with the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Programme (RoLAC) of the British Council in collaboration with the Justice for Peace and Development Initiative (JPDI), NGWUNTA Chambers and Legal Resources Consortium (LRC) have offered free legal assistance to vulnerable persons in Mushin and […]
Contrary to the claim of the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN) that the judiciary has failed the country in its anti-graft war, lawyers at the weekend rose in defence of judiciary, describing the third arm of government as second to none in the fight against corruption. AKEEM NAFIU reports […]
Days after the federal government officially handed over National Arts Theatre Complex at Iganmu in Lagos to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Banks under the aegis of Bankers’ Committee for renovation of the facility, parties in a suit before the Lagos division of the Federal High Court has protested against the handover. […]
Ahead of this week’s election of the lawyers’ umbrella – the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), members of the gown and the wig including a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and FIDA Regional Vice-President, Africa (North & West), Mrs. Victoria Olufunmilayo Awomomlo, have endorsed Ms Ganiat Adetutu Siyonbola for the exalted post of 1st Vice-President of the […]
Oludare Onakoya is an alumnus of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State. Onakoya was called to Bar on 30th November, 2016. In this interview with JOHN CHIKEZIE, Onakoya shares his law journey Background My name is Oludare Onakoya, an indigene of Ijebu Igbo in Ogun State. I am from a family of five. […]