Intimate Affairs: Before your child “blows”, By Funke Egbemode

It is easy to blame bad children, convenient to curse those who sell drugs to them or lure them into cults and gangs. But didn’t someone give birth to and raise them, all of them, cultists, gangsters and the victims? These plenty little demons giving us reason to do candle-light procession for our young ones,…

September 30, 20230Comments

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ALDIN condemns defilement, murder of 13-Year-old girl with disability in Enugu

The Association of Lawyers with Disabilities in Nigeria (ALDIN) utterly decries the brutal and despicable rape and murder of Uche, a 13-year-old girl with disability who was raped to death in the most bestial and barbaric manner on the 23rd day of September 2023, at Aborjieze village in Umuagu-Inyi Autonomous Community in Oji River Local…

September 30, 20230Comments

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Police opens investigation on alleged rejection of ‘one-chance’ victim by Abuja hospital

The Nigeria Police Command at the Federal Capital Territory on Saturday said it has commenced inquiry into reports that a young lady, Greatness Olorunfemi, who was a victim of ‘one-chance’ operators in Abuja, died after medical personnel at Maitama General Hospital allegedly refused to attend to her for lack of a police report. The…

September 30, 20230Comments

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Rejoinder on the Allegations of the NBA President Mr. Y. C. Maikyau SAN, By Caroline Anze-Bishop

Rejoinder On The Allegations Of The NBA President Mr. Y. C. Maikyau SAN Dear Elders of the Bar and Distinguished Colleagues, all protocols are duly and respectfully observed. By God’s Grace, I make this rejoinder to the issues raised at Our Inconclusive Annual General Meeting of 30th August 2023. I have held back in silence…

September 30, 20230Comments

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N12 Million Property Scam: Lawyer remanded

A Federal High Court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Monday, remanded a lawyer, Imoh Ekong, at the Uyo Correctional Centre over an alleged N12 million property fraud. He is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a two-count charge of stealing and criminal conversion. EFCC operatives in Uyo, Akwa Ibom…

September 29, 20230Comments

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Man remanded for defiling lover’s 4-year-old daughter

Justice Abiola Soladoye of an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Thursday, September 28, remanded a man, Stephen Monday, in the custody of Lagos Correctional Service for allegedly defiling his lover’s four-year-old daughter. The defendant is facing a lone count charge of defilement of a child preferred against him by the Lagos state…

September 28, 20230Comments

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University of Lagos charges humongous N525,000 for bed space while issued receipts show N135,000

In a disturbing turn of events, the University of Lagos (UniLag) has been accused of not only charging the sum of N525,000 for a bed space in its hostels but curiously issuing receipts that indicate payment of N135,000. This is on the heels of controversies and protests by students of the university against enormous increase…

September 28, 20230Comments

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History and the History Historian: Professor E.J. Alagoa at 90

By: Godknows Igali In a great show of what is referred to in Latin as 'Opus Laudatio', - preeminent praisework, the Nigerian nation gathered in Yenagoa on Saturday, August 26, 2023, to celebrate one of the country’s living legends, Professor Emeritus Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa. Earlier, on April 14, 2023, this historian of lauded value and…

September 28, 20230Comments

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Persons Exempted from National Identification Number (NIN)

By Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LL.M, ACIArb(UK) National Identity Management Commission [NIMC] is the federal government agency created for the maintenance of a National Identity Database, the registration of individuals and the issuance of general Multi-purpose Identity Cards. There are certain persons in Nigeria that are exempted from registration for National Identification Number. Such exempted persons…

September 28, 20230Comments

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Exciting News: Announcing the Third Edition of the C. O. Anah SAN Memorial Colloquium!

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming Third Edition of The C. O. Anah SAN Memorial Colloquium. The Colloquium is a unique and impactful event dedicated to advancing knowledge and fostering dialogue towards human rights protection and enforcement. We are deliberate about rekindling the consciousness of Nigerian Lawyers to the critical roles they…

September 28, 20230Comments

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