By Olumide Babalola When the Cable News Network (CNN) briefed my Law Firm in October 2020 to represent them and their reporters before the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on restitution for victims of SARS related abuses and other…
Being a speech delivered by Mazi Afam Osigwe SAN at the Ebonyi State University Students’ Bar Council Grand Law Dinner/Award Night held on the 12th of November, 2021. May I express my gratitude to the Bar Council of Ebonyi State…
The management of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has expelled a final year student, Salaudeen Waliu Aanuoluwa, of the Department of Microbiology after being found guilty of assaulting a female lecturer. The University’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr. Kunle Akogun,…
Legacy has been said to be the richness of an individual’s life including his or her accomplishments and the impact that had been made on people and places. The late Hon. Justice Niki Tobi is no doubt a jurist who…
Clause 43: Ballot boxes and voting devices Subsection 1: The Commission shall provide suitable boxes, electronic voting machine or any other voting device for the conduct of elections. Subsection 3: The Polling Agents shall be entitled to be present at…
Ahmed Saleh, The Executive Secretary of National Judicial Council (NJC), disclosed that inflation is hindering administration of justice when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, chaired by Senator Opeyemi Bamidele. Saleh was in…
Author: Siddharth Sijoria, YCLA India Committee member and an advocate practicing at the Madhya Pradesh High Court at Gwalior and the Supreme Court. The Madhya Pradesh High Court must use this case to define the contours of fraternity with a…
In tandem with the issues and platforms for change discussed at COP26 , an new initiative has been launched for lawyers who have a crucial role to play in tackling the climate crisis. The World Lawyers’ Pledge on Climate Action…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Gwagwalada Branch has urged the NBA President to canvass for the deletion of provisions empowering the Body of Benchers (BoB) to issue practicing licence to law firms from the proposed new Legal Practitioners Act, while…
The Chairman of Section, Public Interest And Development Law (SPIDEL) of the Nigerian Bar Association, Monday Ubani, has explained why the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, cannot set up an independent panel to probe the siege of Justice Mary Odili’s…