Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday expressed worry over the state of the nation and blamed bad leadership for the nation’s woes. The former president, while receiving a book titled, ‘The Man, The General and The President,’ written by…
The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) has unveiled its keynote speaker for the 15th Annual Business Law Conference scheduled to hold on Wednesday, July 14th, and Thursday 15th, 2021. In a press statement signed by the…
The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the suspension in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, citing the…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has vowed to sue the Nigerian Federal Government for suspending Twitter indefinitely. Showing anger towards the federal government’s decision, SERAP pledged to sue the FG. In a tweet, it said: “BREAKING: We’re suing…
Six weeks ago, the first significant changes in years were made to the Canadian Divorce Act. The Divorce Act is federal legislation, and deals parenting, child and spousal support and of course, divorce. The Act does not deal with the…
In an earlier article, we introduced Canada’s first fully online dispute resolution Tribunal – British Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT). This online forum has exclusive jurisdiction over a number of different types of civil claim, including strata title (condominium) disputes,…
I prepare this report approximately 3 months before the Commonwealth Law Conference in Nassau, Bahamas. The arrangements for the Conference have of course been greatly impacted by the uncertainties arising from the pandemic. Will delegates be able to travel and…
The Commonwealth Lawyer has been the CLA’s principal vehicle of information and knowledge dissemination for nearly five decades. Founded in 1984, it went out of publication for a brief period in the late 1980s and 1990s, but was revived –…
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, on Monday sworn-in Justice John Oyewole Adeyeye as the Acting Chief Judge of the state, called on the judiciary to prioritise matters of sexual crimes. Fayemi said the appeal became necessary following the increasing rate…
The Southern Senators Forum has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to be alive to his responsibility to protect lives and property in Nigeria in the wake of Ahmed Gulak’s murder, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress. On Monday, the…