Category: Legal
NSCDC arrests 19 people for allegedly looting a rice truck on the Kano-Zaria road
01 Mar 2023
About 19 suspects who allegedly looted a rice truck in Kano on Sunday have been apprehended by operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. According to DSC Ibrahim Idris-Abdullahi, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, the suspects attacked the truck on the Kano-Zaria road. According to him, the truck is registered UGG 532 […]
Continue ReadingReturning Officer wanted for disappearing with election results
28 Feb 2023
The Ebonyi State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mrs. Pauline Onyeka Ugochi has reportedly declared the Returning Officer for Ezza North/Ishielu Federal Constituency, Professor Paul Obidike ‘wanted’ for allegedly disappearing with already collated, signed and stamped election results for the Federal Constituency Obidike, a lecturer in the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu Alike Ikwo was alleged to […]
Continue ReadingChildren injured as Boko Haram members attacks voters in bornu
28 Feb 2023
Five persons including children sustained injuries when Boko Haram insurgents fired shots targeting voters from Mandara Mountains in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State Borno commissioner of police, CP Abdu Umar, who confirmed the incident in an interview with newsmen, said several gunshots were fired at voters from the top of the Mandara mountain […]
Continue ReadingHIJAB IN SCHOOLS CONTROVERSY
28 Feb 2023
As a Christian and a lawyer, I cannot fault the judgment of the Supreme Court (SC) striking down the ban on the wearing of hijab by Muslim female students in Lagos schools. Many Christians would be shocked that my conviction is also premised on my Faith as a Christian. Many do not know that the […]
Continue ReadingCBN AND THE SUPREME COURT
28 Feb 2023
I don’t know what the CBN intends to achieve by not allowing banks to continue to accept deposit of the old notes. I thought that would have been allowed in order to ease the burden on those who still retain the notes. The time limit given by the CBN for its own direct redemption of […]
Continue ReadingBROKEN JUSTICE – IHEDIOHA V UZODIMMA
28 Feb 2023
I have gone through the judgment of the Supreme Court (SC) in the Ihedioha case. My humble view is that if the learned Hon. Justice Kekere-Ekun should go through the judgment a second time, she would not be proud of herself. I say so with the greatest respect and out of the very high esteem […]
Continue ReadingA SUPREME COURT FOR ALL?
28 Feb 2023
No Supreme Court (SC) in any country with a developed justice delivery system is an all comers affair. The function of the Supreme Court (SC), particularly in a Federation, is not to deliver justice in individual cases. It is to declare and develop the law for the benefit of all. The Supreme Court (SC) comes […]
Continue ReadingOLD NAIRA NOTES – JUDICIAL CONFUSION
28 Feb 2023
What is the effect of the injunction of the Supreme Court (SC) restraining enforcement of the phasing out of old notes? One thing is certain: the CBN has already given Friday, 10th February as the date on which the old notes cease to be legal tender. Only the CBN can change that date. No court […]
Continue ReadingNEEDED URGENTLY – A SUPREME COURT FOR NIGERIA
28 Feb 2023
Nigeria does not have a Supreme Court (SC) and is desperately in need of one. What we have in this country in the form of the Supreme Court of Nigeria is a final court of appeals. The two are not the same. The illusion of the two being the same is what has nearly crippled […]
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