Alighting From Moving Vehicle

OBSCURELEGALFACTS BY AROME ABU In Nigeria, it is an offence to enter or alight from a moving vehicle. PENALTY Fine of N3,000 or imprisonment for 6 months or both. See Reg 187 of the National Road Traffic (Amendment) Regulation.PO Arome Abu is the Managing Partner of TCLP. CAVEAT: Note that this information is provided for…

July 24, 202110Comments

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Opinion

AFF: Leading The Journey to corruption’s purgatory, By Ololade Bamidele

This corruption crusade is at the crucial jucture of a needed change in mindset, towards social transformation. This critical gap in relating the burden with the cause, through a very popular process of engagement, is possibly the one of the most significant value additions that the Akin Fadeyi Foundation (AFF) has brought to bear on…

July 24, 20210Comments

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Living

Maikyau FC: Appeal Court President joins fun and glitz at Abuja Lawyers’ league dinner

By Rahila Dauda Nigeria’s Court of Appeal President (PCA), Hon. Justice Monica Dongbam-Mensam joined the cream of Abuja’s legal practitioners at the glitzy Abuja Lawyers’ league dinner and award night held on the 10th of July at NBA House in Abuja. Justice Dongbam-Mensam who urged the organisers to make judiciary part of the league in a…

July 22, 20210Comments

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Interview

There is no explanation for any form of abuse – Rosemary Chikwendu

By Lillian Okenwa A former Chair of the Crimes against Women Sub-Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). Three time officer of the Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee of the IBA. Lawyer, Mediator, Arbitrator, Negotiator and Counsellor., Rosemary Chikwendu is Founding Partner of Chikwendu & Chikwendu & Co Legal Practitioners, Mediators & Arbitrators,…

July 22, 20210Comments

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Tribute

Video: Eulogies as Hon. Justice M.L Uwais turns 85

July 21, 202133Comments

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Opinion

Sunday Igboho And The Malala Yousafzai Spirit

I am an admirer of Malala Yousafzai, the young Pashtun girl who was literally shot into fame, allegedly by the Taliban. Since fate got me to write my Ph.D dissertation, submitted to UCLA, on Pakistan, I have always had a soft spot for the country. I spent about six months of field trip in the…

July 21, 20210Comments

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News

Igboho: German wife creates hurdle for Nigeria, Benin Republic as diplomatic battle rages on over extradition

The government of Benin Republic is in quandary as it weighs options to resolve the issue of Sunday Igboho, Convener of Yoruba Nation movement arrested on Monday night while at the Cotonou airport trying to catch a flight to Germany. This is because Igboho’s wife, Mrs Ropo Adeyemo is German and this has drawn the…

July 21, 20210Comments

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Living

UNBELIEVABLE! Our Landlord Says He Fathered My Second Baby, Insists On Naming Him — Husband Cries Out

An Ibadan-based truck driver, Azeez Hakeem, on Tuesday, told an Ile-Tuntun Customary Court in Ibadan that his wife, Mufuli, was fond of sleeping with their landlord. Hakeem, who lives at Popo Yemoja area of Ibadan, stated this while reacting to his wife’s allegation of battery before the president of the court, Henry Agbaje. He said…

July 21, 2021324Comments

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Opinion

Obi Cubana and the Oba Burial

By REUBEN ABATI The sociology of death and funerals is an important aspect of the African cosmogony. Parents pray that their children should outlive them in order to give them a befitting burial. They liken this to the same manner when fire dies out in the hearth, it is replaced by ashes, and when a…

July 20, 202126Comments

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TIPS

Again, the EFCC Lacks Power Over Lawyers Bank Accounts.

by Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LL.M, ACIArb(UK) Again, the EFCC Lacks Power Over Lawyers Bank Accounts. Daily Law Tips (Tip 815) by Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LL.M, ACIArb(UK) Introduction: It is no news that Nigerians are greatly talented and that some have invested their talents in financial crimes. To better combat the rise in economic and financial crimes…

July 20, 20212Comments

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