For How Long Are Nigerian Lawyers Meant To Retain Their Clients’ Personal Data? A Brief Inquisition Into The RPC And Standard Practice

September 20, 20210Comments

The Law and You

Daily Law Tips by Onyekachi Umah,Esq. (Tip 53)

The Executive Secretarty and the Officers of the Federal Capital Territory Authority have Right of Access at all times to any land or building located within the Federal Capital Territory to ensure their is no contravention of law in any building or land. See, Section 8(1)(a) of the Federal Capital Territory Act. #DailyLawTips #LearnNigerianLaws #SabiLaw…

September 20, 20210Comments

Requiem for our departed glory

By Obadiah Mailafia Nigeria is dying. A dying elephant,encircled by vultures and hyenas. Waiting to feast on the carcass. A fractured, broken nation. The ghost continues to limp aimlessly in the shadows. The question is: Who will bury it? Every nation is born with a peculiar glory. Britain isn’t the most powerful nation on…

September 19, 20210Comments

Features

SPECIAL REPORT: How decrepit court facilities hamper justice delivery in Nigeria’s capital

At a sitting on March 12, Sylvester Oriji, a judge in the Apo division of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja, asked lawyers to remove their wigs and gowns amid sweltering heat in the courtroom. The hearing was on a child-custody case between a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, and his estranged wife, Precious…

Femi Gbajabiamila: The Rogue Speaker By Bayo Oluwasanmi

In 2003, as a lawyer in Georgia, USA, he stole $25,000 personal injury claim of his client. He took the money and ran to Nigeria to contest for election. Wednesday turned on the loudspeakers of his mouth blaring above 55 decibels in public space. He likened IPOB and Yoruba agitators for self-determination to Boko Haram…

Definitive case against Pantami’s FUTO fraud professorship, By Farooq Kperogi

•His PhD is in Social Science, not ICT •He has 10 publications, 39 citations •His teaching experience less than 10 yrs THERE are basically three legitimate ways to become a professor: by climbing the professional ladder in a university; by being appointed to the position from outside academia in recognition of vast and varied industry experience or…

Features

Buhari never rested until government troops massacred Igbos in Civil War genocide: Adesina

Buhari did not take a day off in a genocidal Civil War until the government troops massacred an estimated three million Igbos. resident Muhammadu Buhari did not take a day off in a genocidal Civil War he fought on the side of the Nigerian troops until the government troops massacred an estimated three million Igbos, and…

Basket Of Deplorables

By Shaka Momodu The political stakes as the 2023 general election draw near are almost unimaginable – all the more so because of the overlapping and complementary vulnerabilities of the two leading political parties – accentuated by the public perception of them as essentially Siamese twins. But one is gaining ground, the other is losing.…

September 17, 20210Comments

spotlight

30 years of Nigeria’s progress have been wiped out in just six years by Buhari, says Abaribe

The senator repressing Abia South Senatorial District in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Eyinaya Abaribe, is of the view that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has reversed gains the country made in 30 years under previous administrations. He made this know as a guest of a programme on Arise Television this morning, while responding to several…

September 17, 20210Comments

Fani-Kayode: The presidency and it’s moral judgements, By Umar Yakubu

While we agree that the president is the father of all, but decisions around him should be well thought out. Some things should be done in secret, if circumstances warrant an unpopular approach. For lack of a viable alternative, we have chosen democracy as a system of governance. The problem with our kind of democracy…