Meet the Nigerian neurosurgeon who risks his life to jet home every month from US to perform free surgery

Neurosurgeons are known as skilled operators. But straddling surgeries across two continents? That’s a different skill entirely. Dr. Olawale Sulaiman, 41, is a professor of neurosurgery and spinal surgery and chairman for the neurosurgery department and back and spine center at the Ochsner Neuroscience Institute in New Orleans. He lives in Louisiana, but splits his…

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News

Shuping Wang, whistleblower doctor who exposed HIV scandal in China and saved thousands of lives, dies

A whistleblower who exposed HIV and hepatitis epidemics in central China in the 1990s, potentially saving tens of thousands of lives, has died aged 59. Dr. Shuping Wang lost her job, was attacked, and had her clinic vandalised after she spoke out. She died in Utah in the US, where she moved after the scandal.…

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TIPS

List Of Agreements And Transactions That Are Invalid If Handled By A None Lawyer In Nigeria

Daily Law Tips (Tip 428) by Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LLM. ACIArb(UK) Some agreements and transactions in Nigeria cannot be completed without the input of a lawyer. Even after such transactions or agreements are completed they are invalid, null, void and waste for the single reason that they were not handled/managed by a lawyer. And…

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News

FIDA, Awomolo, insist violence against Women and hildren must stop

Condemnations continue to rise against the spate of violence against women and children in Africa and Nigeria as the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) on Wednesday restated its stance that perpetrators must be punished. Speaking ahead of their upcoming Africa Regional Congress, in Abuja, Chief Mrs. Victoria Awomolo, SAN, Regional Vice President…

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Opinion

Why do Nigerians still study law?

By David Hundeyin The 2015 movie “The Big Short” tells the true story of Steve Eisman, a Wall Street fund manager who becomes aware of an opportunity to profit heavily by shorting the US housing market. Wanting to investigate it for himself, he takes a trip to South Florida where he discovers a hyperinflated…

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Law Report

Dealing with Electric Energy Theft in Nigeria: Need for an Investment-Protection-Oriented Approach

By Obinna Nwadialo Introduction The electricity industry in Nigeria since the privatization era has become awash with many promising opportunities. The industry which was broken into three layers of Generation, Transmission and Distribution with private firms/individuals holding the majority shares in the Generation and Distribution layers of the industry while the government, understandably, maintains its…

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TIPS

Can tax office unilaterally impose percentages of turnover as any person’s income tax?

Daily Law Tips (Tip 417) By Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LLM. ACIArb(UK) Surprisingly, Yes. Personal Income Tax is a direct tax charged on income, salary, allowance, wage, fee, bonuses, dividends or any benefit of an adult individual, communities, families, executors and trustees being resident in Nigeria or outside Nigeria or that of any person resident outside…

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TIPS

Minimum information that must be in database of all arrested persons at federal and state leves in Nigeria

Daily Law Tips (Tip 415) By Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LLM. ACIArb(UK) First of all it is the exclusive duty/power of the Attorney General of the Federation to establish electronic and manual database of all records of arrests at the Federal and State level. The database is designed to be fed through mandatory reports of records…

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When can a village/community in Nigeria be charged personal income tax?

Daily Law Tips (Tip 414) By Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LLM. ACIArb(UK) Personal Income Tax is a direct tax charged on income, salary, allowance, wage, fee, bonuses, dividends or any benefit of an adult individual, communities, families, executors and trustees being resident in Nigeria or outside Nigeria or that of any person resident outside Nigeria but…

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Features

A PEEP INTO HISTORY OF THE BENSON vs SOLANKE CASE: When a man ‘lusts’ after a girl!

Solanke Vs Benson : A Lifetime Story Of Tradition, Love, And Hatred It was probably the first celebrated case where a daughter will defy her father in the choice of marriage. It was in the days when a woman, educated or not, really had no say on the choice of who she marries. But this…

October 2, 20190Comments

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