The 2021 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Lagos Branch law week will hold from the 23rd to 29th of July, 2021 at the Shell Hall, Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos. The event is themed “Disruption, Innovation and the Bar” and will feature prominent personalities in the legal space and other sectors of the economy, who will be speaking…
Efforts by President Muhammadu Buhari government to extradite Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Igboho, to Nigeria from Benin Republic have hit the rocks. Authorities in the neighboring West African nation have insisted on a fair trial for Igboho before yielding to the demand. The Beninoise government said it won’t handle a request…
The Senate has unraveled how some officials of the Office of Accountant General of the Federation made Nigeria to lose $274.2 million (N54.1 billion) on external loan. Consequently, it asked the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, to identify the officers responsible and sanction them for mismanagement of public funds, in accordance with Rule…
Human rights lawyers, Femi Falana, Professor Akin Oyebode and a former minister of education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili yesterday called on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to lead the crusade for the rights and liberties of Nigerians. They made the call while speaking at the ongoing Law Week of the Lagos Branch of the NBA on…
The Federal High Court on Monday commenced its annual vacation for the year 2021. In a circular by the Chief Registrar of the Court, Mr Emmanuel Gakko, the vacation would end on Friday, Sept. 17, while court activities would resume on Sept. 20. According to Gakko, some courts in Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt divisions…
The Department of State Services, DSS, on Monday, failed to produce the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu before the Federal High Court in Abuja for the continuation of his trial. When the case was called up, counsel to the federal government, Mr M. B. Abubakar, told the court that…
President Muhammadu Buhari will today Monday, July 26, 2021, travel to the United Kingdom to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. The President will also visit his doctors after the summit for a medical check-up. This was contained in a statement by the president’s media adviser, Femi…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, asking the court to declare illegal the gag order stopping journalists and broadcast stations from reporting details of terrorist attacks and victims. The suit…
The Court D’Appal of Cotonou has ordered Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, to be kept in prison custody pending further investigation. The court, however, declined the extradition of Igboho to Nigeria. The Nigerian government assembled at least six lawyers at the Cour De’Appel De Cotonou, Benin Republic, on Monday, in…
Gentex Corporation, Indigo Technologies LLC, and Thales Visionix Inc. have filed a lawsuit in the Texas Western District Court against Facebook Inc. and Facebook Technologies LLC for patent infringement over authorized use of the plaintiffs […]