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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
…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.…