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FIDAns glow at Unity Bar April meeting

R-L: Mojirayo Ogunlana-Nkanga, General Secretary, International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Abuja Branch, Nachamada Shalta, National PRO of FIDA, Adama Mohammed, first female Provost of Unity Bar, displaying an award plaque from Arewa Young Lawyers Forum, a FIDA member, Lillian Okenwa, Fmr. Chair Parliamentary Committee, FIDA Abuja/Editor-in-Chief, Law & Society Magazine, Hauwa George-Obas, former Assistant…

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Poverty will make a woman accept settlement rather than pursue justice – Rosemary Chikwendu

By Lillian Okenwa Balgis Osman-Elasha’s article: Women...In The Shadow of Climate Change, published in The UN Chronicle merely restated a long-standing challenge. In her opinion, “Women represent a high percentage of poor communities that are highly dependent on local natural resources for their livelihood, particularly in rural areas where they shoulder the major responsibility for…

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Nasarawa State Governor, Onoja SAN unveil Multi-million naira university printing press

“This huge investment is a dividend of peace in Nasarawa State University which needs to be sustained.”- Governor Abdullahi Sule It was John F. Kennedy made the notable statement: “And so it is to the printing press—to the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news—that we look for…

Nigeria: Between Nostalgia and Nirvana, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

It is fitting that this conversation takes place in the week of Nigeria’s 53rd Independence Anniversary and in the week that the Federal Government has announced steps towards the convening of a “National Dialogue”. Congratulations are due to Tayo Oyetibo, SAN, for investing in institutionalizing law practice in this way and using the formal opening for…

The legality or otherwise of keeping a large sum of cash (money) at home

By O. G. Chukkol Let us first ask ourselves few questions as a necessary prelude to this discourse. Is there limit to the amount of money, whether local or foreign currency, that one can keep at home or move around with? Must one keep his money in the bank? Is it a criminal offence to…

Turning the other cheek for Will Smith

Rock’s joke was disagreeable and deeply offensive. But in taking the law into his own hands and responding in a violent way, Will Smith modelled the worst excesses of modern pop culture – broken, out-of-control and narcissistic. By Azu Ishiekwene One week before Hollywood, Nigeria hosted a different kind of Oscar moment. At the swearing-in ceremony of…

Kaduna train attack: Can it get any worse than this?

In President Buhari’s Nigeria, just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. That is what the terrorist attack on the Kaduna train on Monday proved most conclusively. By Ikechukwu Amaechi Those who want to be politically correct may continue to play the ostrich, pretending that all is well. But the country is…