Addressing Endemic Urban Displacement Amid Luxury Real Estate Boom
By GEB Nigeria’s urban housing landscape in 2026 presents a striking and unsettling contradiction. On one end of the spectrum, luxury real estate continues to expand, buoyed by diaspora remittances,…
Abuja: Court allows video in trial despite defence protest
A High Court in Abuja has refused a request by defence lawyers to prevent a video from being played in court in a case involving alleged document forgery and impersonation.…
Understanding The Essence Of Banks Recapitalisation Policy
By ARIZE NWOBU Banks are the most important financial intermediaries, especially in developing countries and they operate in the money market segment of the financial system and provide short term…
Inner Bar Rankings – Advent Of ‘Blue Silks’ Unsettles CJN, LPPC
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri Currently, there are about 200,000 lawyers on the Supreme Court Roll of Legal Practitioners, admitted to the Nigerian Bar. This, undoubtedly, makes the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)…
Ogun Judiciary knockouts NBA in anniversary novelty football match
The Ogun State Judiciary football team has beaten its counterpart from the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, by a lone goal to nil in a novelty football match played at the…
National Assembly tasks to enact laws to halt arbitrary revocation of lands in Abuja
The National Assembly has been called upon to enact legislation that would prevent the arbitrary revocation of land allocations in Abuja. Festus Uwakhemen, a realtor and member of the Real…
Abacha’s Loot and the fight for peoples’ money
By : E Anaba Besides wars, disease, and violent militant groups, few forces have undermined law-based states in recent times as profoundly as corruption. Nowhere is its human cost more…
Chieftaincy matters and internal dispute mechanisms
By Moruff Balogun 1.0 INTRODUCTION Over the years, disputes arising from chieftaincy matters have remained a persistent feature of traditional governance in Nigeria. Owing to the deep historical, cultural, and…
Read before you rise: Avicenna, and the moral burden of advocacy
BY UJAH ISRAEL UJAH ESQ B/Phil, LLB, BL, LLM, There is a silent humiliation worse than losing a case. It is the humiliation of appearing before the court unprepared, armed…
National threat: El-Rufai’s absence in court stalls DSS arraignment
The bid by the Department of the State Services, DSS, to arraign the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, at the Federal High Court in Abuja on…