Intimate Affairs: The dark magic powder called love potion, By Funke Egbemode

Love potion. Is it real? Does it still work? Can a wife be that mean as to administer it on the man she married, the father of her children? Love potion, if you ask me, is like magun; only those who live to tell the story know that it is still efficient. This is a…

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Protracted health crises at Nigerian Supreme Court

By Chidi Odinkalu The crisis afflicting the Supreme Court in the Nigerian judiciary sooner or later occasions system-wide contagion, Odinkalu wrote in this October 30, 2022 article. Nine months after, nothing has changed. Rather Nigeria continues to lose judges in quick succession to poor health. In March 2017, columnist, Eric Teniola, began his article tracing the…

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Appellate Court Justices: Occupational health, well-being, and other matters

When this article under the heading Saving the Supreme Court from Crises was published by The Cable on 12 November 2022, it addressed the multiple dimensions of the crises of attrition, retention, and replacement in Nigeria’s Supreme Court as well as the pathologies that make these resilient... Three issues were immediately in focus. One is occupational health and well-being…

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What Love Cannot Do Does Not Exist: Magistrate disguised as woman to write bar exam for lover

“Wise persons think of others, helping them as much as they can, and the result is happiness”, the Dalai Lama once said. But an attempt by a newly appointed magistrate Musa Semwogerere to assist his girlfriend by writing her law exams has gone awry. While disguised as a woman, Musa Semwogerere who was promoted to…

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Enugu state loses two appellate court justices in one month as Supreme Court Justice Chima Centus Nweze is feared dead

Came out of coma about four months ago Enugu state mourns Nigeria's legal community is reeling with shock over the news that the Supreme Court of Nigeria's Hon. Justice Chima Centus Nweze has reportedly died. No official announcement has emanated from his family or the Supreme Court but sources close to the family said he…

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BREAKING: DSS Releases Nnamdi Kanu to meet personal doctors

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has met with his personal physicians in an Abuja hospital outside the facility of the State Security Service (SSS). According to The Nation, Kanu’s lead counsel, Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, disclosed this in a tweet on Sunday. He said: “Sequel to our avowed assurance to…

July 30, 20230Comments

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Ojukwu’s Estate: Bianca Ojukwu triumphs in legal battle

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, has delivered judgement in Favour of the widow of late Igbo leader and Ikemba Nnewi Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and her Children in the case involving the management and control of some of the assets of Ojukwu Transport Ltd( OTL) the family company of which her husband was…

July 30, 20230Comments

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The New Strongmen of the Sahel

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In July 2013, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, then Egypt’s army chief, sacked his benefactor and Egypt’s first democratically elected president, President Mohammed Morsi, in a military coup, installed himself as military ruler of the country and suspended the country’s constitution. 11 months later, at the end of May 2014, the General proclaimed…

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Child, five, who fatally shot baby brother was on cocaine while infant had marijuana in system, prosecutors say

A five-year-old boy who fatally shot his baby brother in the US was high on cocaine while the toddler had marijuana in his system, according to prosecutors. Sixteen-month-old Isiah Johnson died from a gunshot wound to his head on 28 March in Lafayette about 60 miles north of Indianapolis, after his brother found a handgun…

July 29, 20230Comments

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Three arraigned for defrauding employment seekers of N11million

As FCC chairman battles allegations of ‘‘selling’ MDA jobs for N7 million each to jobseekers For defrauding job seekers the sum of N11, 300, 000, three men have been arraigned before an Abakaliki Magistrates’ Court 1 in Ebonyi state capital. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Chidiebere Ndigwe, 46, Ikembuchukwu Donatus, 27, and…

July 29, 20230Comments

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