The Lagos State Government through the Ministry of Health has unveiled a policy document on safe termination of pregnancy. The 40-page policy document, tagged “Lagos State Guidelines on Safe Termination of Pregnancy for Legal Indications”, sets out guidelines for safe termination of pregnancy within the ambit of the criminal law of Lagos State. Presenting and…
The Federal High Court have announced the commencement of the annual vacation of the court beginning from Monday, July 25 2022 to Friday, September 16, 2022. The vacation is said to be pursuant to the provisions of Order 46, Rule 4 (b) of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedures) Rules, 2019 (as amended). This was…
The Senate, on Wednesday, screened and confirmed the seven ministerial nominees whose names were sent last week by President Muhammadu Buhari for confirmation as Minister-designates. Those screened and confirmed as minister-designates include Henry Ikoh (Abia), Umana Okon Umana (Akwa-Ibom), and Ekumankama Nkama (Ebonyi). Others are Goodluck Nana Opiah (Imo), Umar Ibrahim El-Yakub (Kano), Ademola Adegoroye…
The Senate President Ahmad Lawan has revealed that the Federal Government through the Nigerian High Commission in the United Kingdom, has engaged the services of lawyers to defend the former Deputy Senate President and currently a serving senator, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice. According to a statement by the Special Assistant (Press) to the…
By all standards, the originating email which formed the genesis of the whole debacle that busied the legal space during this past weekend, fits into every description of unwholesomeness. In terms of the Rules of Professional Conduct, it breached all rudimentary rules and made very deafening insinuations which left readers agape. The correspondence was in…
The Oyo State Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan, has dragged the State House of Assembly to court over the impeachment move against him by the lawmakers. The deputy governor was represented in court by his counsel, Chief Afolabi Fashanu, SAN, in the case which came up before Justice Ladiran Akintola at the Oyo State High Court,…
Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for helping late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls, capping the former socialite’s sordid fall from grace. The Oxford-educated daughter of the late British press baron Robert Maxwell appeared not to react as New York Judge Alison Nathan handed down the term in a packed…
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, met with 22 angry senators of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in an attempt to stop their planned defection. The meeting was held at the Council Chambers of State House, Abuja. The senators were led to the meeting by Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor-Kalu. The president noted the concerns…
The Senate has resolved to continue with its investigation into the crisis in the Supreme Court despite the resignation of Justice Tanko Muhammad as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). Lawmakers in the upper chamber of the National Assembly made the resolution during the plenary on Tuesday following a motion moved by the Chairman of…
The Nigerian Bar Association Institute of Continuing Legal Education (NBA-ICLE) has concluded a partnership with the Kaduna State Government under which the NBA-ICLE will train the lawyers employed by the State Government in its various Ministries, Departments and Agencies. The focus of the week-long intensive workshop which would run from 27th June 2022 to 1st…