Unraveling the Legal Issues in Baba Ijesha’s Saga

By Daniel Akinwale No one I repeat no one let alone a child deserves the unbearable trauma of sexual abuse. Baba Ijesha, a popular Yoruba movie comedian cum actor whose birth name is James Olayinka was recently alleged to have defiled a 7 year old child and reportedly caught on camera sexually assaulting the child-…

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House Of Justice Honours Marylyn Ene, Adeyoju Adekunle Olalekan, For Academic Excellence

In furtherance to its commitment to taking justice to Law, the Law firm of MIVE LEGALS at House of Justice is pleased to confer its annual Academic Excellence Award to Eimonye Marylyn Ene, a Master student in Criminological & Forensic Psychology at the Nigeria Defence Academy and to Mr Adeyoju Adekunle Olalekan of the Post…

SERAP sues FG, wants ECOWAS court to declare NBC broadcasting code illegal

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and twenty-four concerned Nigerians have sued the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja over “the arbitrary use of the NBC Act and broadcasting code to target, harass, sanction, and fine independent television and radio stations in…

JAMB Fee: Prof. Oloyede should have exercised discernment and restraint – Baptist Convention (+Video)

By Prof. Oyesoji Aremu, Chairman, Education Management Board, Nigerian Baptist Convention Baptist denomination, here and in other climes, is a pride to christendom. This pride is rooted in legacies of training and values which every baptist is taken through. And by extension, the virtues and values which go with sound academic traditions are given to…

OLISA METUH’S CORRUPTION CASE: HOW JUSTICE ABANG FELL INTO A WEB OF BIAS THAT NULLIFIED METUH’S TRIAL AND CONVICTION

Olisa Metuh v. Federal Republic of Nigeria [2021] 6 NWLR (Pt. 1771) 82 One of the high points of the fight against corruption by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration upon assuming office in 2015 was the raid on politicians on the opposition divide – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The raid was based on allegations of…

96 days of new service chiefs: 741 persons killed by suspected terrorists, bandits, herdsmen, others

Across the world, 100 days is usually marked by public officials. It is an occasion to showcase achievements during the period and highlight plans for the future. It is only four days to 100 days since the current Service Chiefs took office on January 26, 2021, precisely 96 days. So what achievements have been recorded…

Threatening Channels TV is cowardly deflection

By Abimbola Adelakun After Nigerians criticised the National Broadcasting Commission for trying to strong-arm the television station, Channels TV, over their interview with the spokesperson for the Independent People of Biafra, Emma Powerful, a more contrite version of them addressed the public to clarify that they merely warned Channels TV to “check their excesses.” They said since the IPOB…

[MUST READ]: The Moving Tribute Kanu Agabi SAN paid to Late Justice Sylvester Ngwuta JSC

In your lifetime, my dear Sylvester, I addressed you as my Lord. I am unable to do so now since you stand before Him who is able to see the human spirit in all its nakedness and with whom titles are of no account. I came to your defense when you were tried on a…

Anarchy: Pantami And Buhari’s Pantomime

First of all, is there anarchy in Nigeria? My definition is not concerned with the anarchy decried in International Relations, as “the absence of any authority superior to nation-states and capable of arbitrating their disputes and enforcing international law”. We should jettison that, not because some aspects of that problem is not present in the…

KIND NIGERIANS MADE AMPUTEE PURE WATER HAWKER, MARY, N25M RICHER IN A WEEK

Kindness has not ceased in Nigeria. Everything has not collapsed or gone bad. We all know there is economic hardship in Nigeria but there is no scarcity of kindness. It's only a dark cloud that tries hard to hide the sun from shining. That fateful day, Mary Daniel, the young woman in her 20s left…

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