Call for bids to tender for the 23rd Commonwealth Law Conference 2023 The Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) is inviting legal associations and any other interested agencies of the Commonwealth to submit a bid if they wish to assist the CLA with hosting the 23rd Commonwealth Law Conference in 2023. A key date in the legal…
The Central Planning Committee (CPC) for the forthcoming Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL) Annual Conference has bowed to pressure by extending the early bird window for registration by aspiring conferees. In a statement by Mr. Emeka Nwadioke, Head of the Media & Publicity Sub-committee, the CPC stated that early…
Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, has made a U-turn as the panel of enquiry he set up to investigate the alleged shortfall in operating surpluses by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) under the leadership of the suspended MD/CEO, Ms. Hadiza Bala-Usman, will now probe her for insubordination as against the earlier claim of…
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has extended the tenure of the chief justice by five years following contentious changes to the constitution that allowed for the extension and are being challenged in court by lawyers. Chief Justice Luke Malaba had been due to retire on Saturday when he turns 70, but Mnangagwa’s ruling ZANU-PF party used…
Indications have it that the Southern Governors’ Forum has directed state houses of assembly in the South to enact law backing the ban on open grazing. Newsmen reported that governors of the Southern region met in Asaba, the Delta State capital on Tuesday during which they came up with the ban on open grazing. The…
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has urged southern governors in the country to back their ban on open grazing with a legal instrument to enable the prosecution of offenders. Falana spoke on Wednesday evening while featuring on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme monitored by newsmen. Newsmen had earlier reported that about 17 southern governors…
The buzz generated from the virtual oral rounds of the Arbitration Challenge continued Friday, April 30, as the semi-finals between Lagos vs. Port Harcourt and Onitsha vs. Ibadan, respectively. The competing teams made their oral presentations before two (2) separate arbitral panels comprising leading arbitration experts such as Elizabeth Oger-Gross, Godwin Omoaka S.A.N., FCIArb., Miannaya…
The federal government has proposed 65 years as retirement age for doctors, health workers and 70 years for consultants in the country. The minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed this at a meeting between the Presidential Committee on Salaries, relevant stakeholders, health sector professional associations and trade unions on Tuesday in Abuja. The…
Senators from southern Nigeria have expressed their support for governors from their various geopolitical zones who were demanding the restructuring of the country and the immediate ban on open grazing in their respective states. The Forum of Southern Governors had on Tuesday announced a ban on open grazing in all the 17 Southern states. They…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has disclosed that the commission has recovered $153 million from former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who has been living in Britain since leaving office. He also said the anti-graft agency recovered no fewer than 80 choice property valued at $80m. This was contained in…