A Christmas like no other

By Sonnie Ekwowusi Whether in plenty or on empty stomach or in foreboding forlorn or in distress or anxiety, we are electrified and enraptured in the magnificent allure and frenzy of Christmas amid the rendition of beautiful Christmas carols, festooning of public highways, public parks and personal houses; exchange of Christmas gifts, social parties and…

December 22, 20220Comments

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Living

Tales my patients told me: “Doctor, I need you to verify my birth parents!”

By Emmanuel Fashakin When you think that you have seen it all, this happens. That week in 2018, then 53-year-old Andrew (NRN) who has Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, and High Cholesterol came for his routine three-month check-up. Andrew is a very pleasant African American and a model patient -- keeps all appointments, takes his medications, obeys…

December 22, 20220Comments

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Tribute

Tributes as one of Nigeria’s finest lawyers, Khrushchev Ekwueme passes on

Tributes are pouring in as news about the death of Khrushchev Ekwueme continues to send shock waves across Nigerian legal circles. Khrushchev a Partner in Dispute Resolution Practice at the law firm of Olaniwun Ajayi LP is a member of the Expert Group of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on Transboundary Infrastructure…

December 21, 20220Comments

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Opinion

Counting the Kidnapped and the Killed among Nigeria’s Judges and Lawyers

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu To survive in Nigeria’s legal profession these days, practitioners and judges require skills in the martial arts; nimbleness of feet on an Olympian scale; weapons handling; not to mention advanced training in subterfuge. Sadly, these are not offered on the curriculum of the Nigerian Law School nor in judicial orientation. Even…

December 17, 20220Comments

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Opinion

Limits of powers of the Body of benchers and why it is NOT and CANNOT be the leader or manager of the Nigerian Bar

By Sylvester Udemezue Memory Verse: By virtue of section 1(1) of the LPA, CAP L11, LFN, 2004, any decision of the General Council of the Bar or the Body of Benchers with respect to the “affairs of the NBA” may be revoked or modified by the NBA. (1) The BOB (BODY OF BENCHERS) as established…

December 17, 20220Comments

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Living

The anointing of malapropism is flowing…

Popular law teacher and ex-Chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission, Prof. Chidi Anselm Odinkalu blew the lid on the word ‘malapropism’ with his trending article “A Season of Political Malapropisms.” With a number of examples, he revealed how crisscrossing Nigerian politicians say one thing but actually mean another. “Almost without exception, the leading actors…

December 17, 20220Comments

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spotlight

75-year-old detained for defiling 4-year-old niece, another 75-year-old arraigned for raping and impregnating girl of 13

But for being held down following her inability to pay the hospital fees after giving birth, the unpleasant story of a 13-year-old girl, allegedly raped and impregnated by her guardian, Mr. Sunday Muoghalu might never have gone viral. Thankfully, the 75-year-old pedophile, Mr. Sunday Muoghalu has been arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence…

December 15, 20220Comments

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Opinion

Reinstatement of Hon. Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia: Pristine justice finally served

Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, CON, OFR, FCIARB, PhD, LL.D. Introduction News that the National Judicial Council ( NJC ) – the nation’s judicial regulatory agency – has reversed its earlier suspension ( on corruption charges ), of Hon. Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia and re-instated as a judge of the Federal High Court, has elicited mostly positive…

December 15, 20220Comments

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spotlight

When we misconduct ourselves as lawyers, it is because we are expressing a certain form of disability – NBA President

President of the Nigerian Bar Association Mr. Yakubu C. Maikyau, SAN, has revealed that when lawyers misconduct themselves, it is because they are expressing a certain form of disability. According to Maikyau who delivered the keynote address at the just concluded Maiden Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association-Lawyers with Disabilities Forum (NBA-LWDF) in Abuja,…

December 15, 20220Comments

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spotlight

Governor Obaseki salutes Edo-born OAU’s best graduating medical student, Dr. Osarhiaekhimen

…extols her for emerging topmost graduating student in medical sciences, bagging 7 awards The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has applauded Dr. Godknows Osarenren Osarhiaekhimen, an indigene of Edo State, who emerged Best Graduating Student in Medical Sciences and Overall Best Graduating Student of the Obafemi Awolowo University at the institution’s 46th convocation.…

December 14, 20220Comments

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