Nigeria: A New Dawn For Nigeria’s Power Sector: Highlights Of The Electricity Act, 2023

Minor commits suicide after being raped by madam’s husband

Unable to bear the pain of being reportedly raped by the husband of her boss, a sixteen-year-old girl, Olayemi Agbeloba has committed suicide in Oyo state. The husband of Olayemi’s boss, one Ajibode, a welder, allegedly defiled the young lady at their residence in the Eruwa community, in the Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo…

June 30, 20230Comments

“It is unconstitutional”- Catholic bishops on bill for council on Christian education

’ Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has rejected a bill seeking the establishment of a National Council of Christian Education, saying the proposal violates Sections 10 and 42(3) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999. Rather than promoting a bill that violates the secular character of Nigeria, the bishops asked Christian…

June 30, 20230Comments

Law Report

US S’Court Judgment on Affirmative Action: “A Tragedy for Us All”: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Dissent

In a devastating blow to the fight for racial justice in the United States, the US Supreme Court on Friday eliminated affirmative action in higher education. In her dissenting opinion, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called out her conservative colleagues for “interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions of higher learning are doing to solve…

Law Report

US Supreme Court backs Christian postal worker who wanted Sundays off

The United States Supreme Court on Thursday sided with an evangelical Christian worker who was denied requests to take Sundays off from his post office job to observe his Sabbath in a narrower ruling than some religious freedom advocates sought. While the court did not overrule a precedent that set when employers must make accommodations…

Opinion

Rasputin, Putin and Prigozhin: Nexus, rise, fall and transition (2)

By Tiko Okoye According to the Institute for the Study of War, Rostov – just 100 kilometres from Ukraine’s border with Russia – houses the Command and Control Centre for the Russian Joint Group of Forces in Ukraine as a whole and serves as home base for the Russian southern military district command, whose 58th…

Video: Defending the President’s convoy, By Ernest Ojukwu, SAN

As the furor against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's 120-car convoy continues to gather steam, notable law teacher and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Professor Ernest Ojukwu has described the enormous motorcade as "an eyesore." Teacher as he is popularly called made a post on his Facebook page titled: DEFENDING THE PRESIDENT'S CONVOY. It reads: "That convoy…

Download Full Judgment: US S’Court outlaws RACE as factor in college admissions in key affirmative action ruling: Justices vote 6-3 to rule Harvard and UNC programs unconstitutional

In a landmark judgment, the United States Supreme Court has banned colleges from using race as a factor when admitting students in a landmark ruling on affirmative action Thursday. The justices decided in a 6-3 opinion that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)'s race-based affirmative action admissions policies are…

Opinion

Rasputin, Putin and Prigozhin: Nexus, rise, fall and transition (1)

By Tiko Okoye The common thread that connects the lives of Grigori Rasputin, Vladimir Putin and Yevgeny Prigozhin is tied to the city where they became transformed from erstwhile local champions to icons with breath-taking national and international name recognition: St. Petersburg. But let me first narrate a crucial part of Russian history that might…

Foreign

White Florida woman who shot Nigerian-born neighbor won’t face murder charge

The State Attorney of Florida, William Gladson has announced that the state will not pursue murder charges against a White woman accused of fatally shooting her Nigerian-born Black neighbor through a door. Rather, Susan Lorincz has been charged with manslaughter with a firearm and assault in the June 2 shooting death of Ajike Owens. State…