The Legal Practitioner Of Light (1)
By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN “A lawyer lives for the direction of his people and the advancement of the cause of his country.” (Christopher Alexander Sapara-Williams, the first indigenous Nigerian lawyer…
Are Igbo Men Averse To Divorcees, And Single Mothers?
By Chukwuneta Oby A lady’s message to me read: “The average Igbo man does not believe that a woman over 50 years of age deserves to either remarry or have…
Deep Mourning: Celestial Pastor Kills Wife Over Infidelity, Runs Into Speeding Ogun Truck
The two heaps of fresh sand behind the three-bedroom bungalow in Ogooluwa community, Akiode Ibogun, Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, are all that remain of a tragedy that…
Citizen vigilante, and the false promise of street justice
By Oluwafemi Adekoya The 66th Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference (NBA-AGC) may have ended, but its ripple effects continue to expose deep fissures in Nigeria’s justice system. From controversy…
Supremacy, finality and infallibility: Exercise of apex judicial power
By Festus Ogwuche American constitutional scholar Kermit Roosevelt’s new book, Advanced Introduction to the U.S. Supreme Court offers Nigerian constitutional lawyers something more valuable than an account of the American…
Let justice be swift, fair, Tinubu urges judges
President Bola Tinubu has again charged the Nigerian judiciary to ensure swift, fair justice that is blind to a litigant’s status or tribe, insisting that a compromised legal system threatens…
DSS bans operatives from arresting people over civil matters
The Director-General of the Department of State Services, Oluwatosin Ajayi, has directed operatives of the agency not to arrest anyone over civil matters. According to The Sun, Ajayi stated this…
Magistrate Court Convicts, knocks 65-Year-old fake lawyer
Magistrate Court sitting in Aba South, Abia State, has convicted and sentenced a 65-year-old man, Iheanacho Emenike, after he pleaded guilty to three counts bordering on impersonation, obtaining money by…
Amaechi locked down judiciary, made pregnant woman to give birth in prison – Wike
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has accused the vice presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, of causing a pregnant woman to give birth…
Port Harcourt: Father alleges policemen left NBA duty post before son’s killing
The family and friends of a 22-year-old University of Port Harcourt graduate, Anthony Obodo, have demanded justice over his alleged killing by policemen in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, with his…
Odama and growing misuse of cybercrime law
Denis Odama is free. But perhaps he should never have been in jail. Odama, a Cross River businessman and social commentator, was arrested in Lagos on August 9 and taken…