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 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…
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 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 –…
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…
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,…
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…
The University of Lagos Governing Council has approved the dismissal of two of its lecturers, Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu of the Department of European Languages and Integration Studies, Faculty of Arts; and Dr. Samuel Omoniyi Oladipo of the Department of Economics,…
Unknown gunmen have shot and killed Christopher Dega, a senior special assistant to the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom on Security matters. Mr Dega, a retired assistant inspector-general of police, was killed on Tuesday in Jos, the Plateau state…
Twitter has deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet threatening genocide against the people of Igbo-dominated South-East. The social media giant deleted Mr Buhari’s tweet following enquiries from newsmen with the context in which the Nigerian leader issued the threat on Tuesday…