A medical doctor has shared an encounter with a patient suffering from high blood pressure. 

The doctor said he asked the woman why her blood pressure was through the roof, and she blamed it on her son’s behaviour. 

The doctor wrote on X: “This elderly woman complained that she hasn’t slept  properly for days, i checked her b.p and it was crazy high. I asked her why and she said her son is giving her problems. The boy sold the only land her husband left for them and blew the money on nonsense. 

“The last one he did was to steal the TV in her sitting room and sell it. So people don’t even pity their parents and it’s so sad. She said he’s doing music and i wonder how he expects to blow. Smh.”

A tragic accident in Milan has claimed the life of an 83-year-old woman after a 70-year-old pensioner jumped from a fourth-floor apartment and landed on her.

Francesca Manno was walking through the courtyard of the building in the Baggio district on Sunday, September 14, at around 6 p.m. local time when the man fell on her, according to local media reports.

The pensioner, who lives in the same building, had climbed over his balcony railing in an apparent suicide attempt. Initial fears of a double suicide were later dispelled when authorities confirmed that Manno and the man were strangers.

Passersby alerted emergency services, and paramedics rushed to the scene. Despite efforts to revive her, Manno was pronounced dead at the site. Witnesses said she bore the full impact of the fall.

The man survived with multiple leg fractures and was transported to Niguarda Hospital. Doctors confirmed he was not in a life-threatening condition. Carabinieri officers from the Radiomobile unit and the San Cristoforo station confirmed that the fall was a suicide attempt. He has since been charged with involuntary manslaughter and remains under investigation.

The incident comes amid another tragedy in Italy, where 15-year-old figure skater Matilda Ferrari was killed by a cement truck while crossing the road near her home in Val Rendena, Trentino, on Monday morning. The driver was reportedly passing through a green light. Rescue teams and local doctors attempted to save her, but she was pronounced dead from severe injuries.

Manuel Cosi, the mayor of Giustino, where Matilda lived, expressed his grief: “We are shocked… Giustino has lost a star.”

Both incidents have cast a shadow over northern Italy as communities mourn two lives lost under tragic circumstances.

I think the leadership of the legal profession must do something urgently to save Nigeria from lawlessness, the desecration of the nobility of the legal profession, and the democratic strangulations that Nigeria as a nation faces. The Nigerian justice system, as my lord Hon Justice Oludotun Adefope-Okojie, JCA Rtd, put it most frankly and in an undiluted truth, during his lordship’s speech at the book launch recently, is almost in a comatose”.

The snail pace of justice delivery, the nearand almost non-immediate available remedies for victims of oppressive proceedings, and the use of state apparatus for persecution are so grievous to be ignored. It is a time bomb waiting to explode. There is this almost everything goes kind of legal practice in Nigeria, and the almost near total collapse of ethical standards in legal practice has almost made the legal profession the most hated and the greatest enemy of the people. The legal profession has failed, in my view, to take advantage of the constitutional duties bestowed on it to instil discipline and ensure corruption-free society.

As my learned friend of the Inner Bar, Rotimi Jacob SAN, put it most admirably: “There is no better test of excellence of a government than the efficiency of its Judicial system, for nothing more nearly touches the welfare and security of the average citizen than his sense that he can rely on the certain and prompt administration of justice. Law is respected and supported when it is treated as the shield of innocence and the impartial guardian of every private civil right. If the law is dishonestly administered, the salt has lost its flavour if it is weakly or fitfully coerced, the guarantee of order fails. If the lamp of justice goes out in darkness, how great is the darkness”

In response to this view, I said: “I think the light of justice has not only gone out in darkness, but darkness has overwhelmed the light of justice in our legal system. Sadly, those who are responsible for this sorry state are members of the legal profession at the bar and on the bench.

Lending his learned voice to this, my learned friend Olajide Akinola Esq said: “I honestly agree with this. The truth is, the light of justice didn’t just go out on its own. We, as lawyers and judges, allowed darkness to overwhelm it. Every time a lawyer uses technicalities to frustrate justice, every time a judge compromises integrity, we contribute to this sorry state. The system is not failing by accident; it’s failing because the very custodians of justice, the Bar and the Bench, have failed to protect it. Until we admit our own complicity and take responsibility, no government reform will save the profession.If the temple of justice has collapsed, then we, its priests, must be held accountable. And if there’s any hope of rebuilding, it must start with us”

There is an urgent need for the legal profession to save itself from the ridicule the profession has put itself in. The crooked manner legal practice is being done in Nigeria needs a thorough review. We are too religious in appearance but far from God and the fear of God in action and practice. In most cases, truths are murdered on the altar of fabricated lies and stories to support fraud and fraudulent practices. If you have handled electoral cases, you will see the lawlessness and fraudulent practices by some practitioners to support democratic improprieties and impositions. That is where you see how not to practice law. Nigerians are in hell because the legal profession is failing the nation and its citizens.

As I keep saying there is nothing wrong with the institutions. It is those in charge of institutions who have destroyed the institutions. When a judge knows the law but applies the law in his adjudications to serve a predetermined agenda, that judge, in my view, is a lawless judge not fit to be on the bench. Yet we have seen judgments delivered by these lawless judges, and we kept quiet. Too bad. There are lawless lawyers, too.

 A London property tribunal last week concluded that neither Prof. Mike Ozekhome, SAN, nor Ms Tali Shani was entitled to claim ownership of a London property linked to one-time Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the late General Jeremiah Useni, due to irreconcilable testimonies of witnesses called by both parties.

Click here to download the full judgment.

Judgment

A medical tribunal has ruled that the 44-year-old doctor who left a patient midway through an operation to have sex with a nurse is at “very low risk” of repeating his serious misconduct.

Dr Suhail Anjum and the unnamed nurse were caught in a “compromising position” by a colleague who walked in on the pair at Tameside Hospital. The consultant anaesthetist had asked another nursing colleague to monitor the male patient, who was under general anaesthetic, so he could go to the bathroom

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Instead, Anjum, a married father of three, went to another operating theatre at the hospital in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, where sexual activity took place with Nurse C on 16 September 2023.

A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing was told another nurse at the hospital described seeing Nurse C “with her trousers around her knee area with her underwear on display” and that Dr Anjum was “tying up the cord of his trousers”.

Anjum was absent from the operating room for eight minutes and the patient came to no harm.

The matter was reported to management and Anjum was dismissed in February 2024 following an internal investigation. Last week he told an MPTS disciplinary tribunal he wanted to resume his career in the UK and relocate with his family after they had since moved to his native Pakistan where he worked as a doctor.

Read Also: Sexual harassment in hospitals: Patients struggle with shame in silence over unethical practices

Anjum promised there would never be a repeat of a “one-off error of judgment”. Giving evidence, he said: “It was quite shameful, to say the least. I only have myself to blame. I let down everybody, not just my patient and myself but the trust and how it would look.

“I let down my colleagues who gave me a lot of respect.”

On Monday, the tribunal determined that Anjum “had put his own interests before those of the patient and his colleagues” and the incident involving Nurse C “had the potential to distract Dr Anjum … and he may not have been able to give his full attention to the patient’s care”.

The tribunal chair, Rebecca Miller, said his actions, while they did not harm the patient’s safety, were “significant enough to amount to misconduct that was serious”.

However, she was satisfied that Anjum was determined not to repeat his past misconduct and considered the risk of repetition to be “very low”.

No sanction will be imposed on the doctor and the hearing will reconvene in Manchester on Tuesday to decide whether to issue a warning on Dr Anjum’s registration.

Anjum had admitted engaging in sexual activity with Nurse C and that he knew she was “likely to be nearby” when he left his patient. He also admitted his actions had the potential to put his patient at risk.

The Guardian

By Mojirayo Ogunlana

Yesterday, 15th September 2025, I represented the Nigeria Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (SPIDEL) at a Roundtable on Ethical and Hate-Free Politics organized by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), ably led by the Executive Secretary, Dr. Tony Ojukwu OFR, SAN.

Speaking in the panel on Hate Speech, Human Rights & Elections in Nigeria’s politics, in the stead of the Chairman of the SPIDEL Transition Committee Chairman, Prof. Paul Ananaba, SAN, I addressed the issue of hate speech across platforms affecting women and vulnerable groups.

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As an advocate of an open, free and safe Internet, I am aware that while canvassing for an Internet where freedom of opinion and expression is protected, there’s also the need to protect the digital space from hate speech. We must emphasize that digital platforms amplify marginalized voices in society. Digital platforms provide avenues for citizens to engage in governance through sharing of opinions and perspectives that would otherwise be disregarded or silenced. Freedom of Expression (FOE) is vital to the society and it fosters democracy by ensuring a healthy and thriving civic space.

However, as important as FOE is, not all speech is protected, especially speech that qualifies as propaganda for war and any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence- Article 20 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

In this vein, hate speech promotes division, hatred, divisive expressions and incites violence on a large scale that is to the detriment of the society.

Nevertheless, in addressing hate speech, we must not limit or prohibit freedom of speech. International law mandates that in dealing with cases of hate speech, there must be an intention to invite violent action.

Therefore, in crafting legislations we must ensure that they are not vague, ambiguous, overboard or suppress dissent. In the ECOWAS case of 23, October 2023, The Incorporated Trustees of Expression Now Human Rights Initiative V. Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Court held that Articles 3(1)(1) and 2, 15(2)(1) of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code (6th Edition) and Article 15(5) (1) of the Amendments to the Code contravene Article 9(1)&(2) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR). The basis was that these provisions prohibited speech that was protected, and were too vague, ambiguous and overboard and the sanctions imposed in Article 15 were excessive. The Court ordered Nigeria to align this code with its international obligations and bring it to international standards.

The truth is that over-regulating hate speech can violate the right to freedom of expression, and under-regulating may lead to intimidation, harassment or violence against vulnerable groups.

Read Also: Nigerians Kick as Senate Introduces Bill Prescribing Death Penalty for ‘Hate Speech’

In addressing this, the government must ensure a multi-stakeholder approach so that all voices will be represented and we can have a homegrown and contextualized solution.

Furthermore, there is a dire need for a community-based Initiative that will serve as a tool for educating the populace as well as deter them from offending in this regard.

#DigitalRights

#hatespeech

#NHRC. Maitama abuja.

The six-storey building, Afriland Tower, on Broad Street, Marina, Lagos Island, housing the United Bank for Africa, went up in flames on Tuesday.

The inferno was said to have started from the inverter room located in the basement of the building before it spread to other floors.

Videos showed flames emitting from the six-storey building with bank employees seen climbing out of the window on a ladder to escape the inferno.

Confirming the fire outbreak, the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, in a statement by Deputy Controller General, Ogabi Olajide, said that efforts were ongoing to contain the fire.

Mr Olajide said, “A fire outbreak is currently being battled at a six-storey building on Afriland Tower, Broad Street, Lagos Island. The call was received at 13:38 hours, and fire crews from Ebute Elefun Fire Station and Sari Iganmu Fire Station responded. Evacuation of occupants is in progress, while firefighting operations have doused the earlier panic prior to the arrival of first responders.’’

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Finally, the Department of the State Service DSS has filed Cybercrime charges against the controversial activist, Omoyele Sowore and two others for allegedly making false posts against President Bola Tinubu to cause breakdown of law and order in the country.

The criminal charges filed on Tuesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja has X. Incorporation and Meta (Facebook) as two other defendants.

In the 5-count criminal charges marked FHC/ABJ/CR)481/2025, Sowore was accused of using his official x handle page at Yele Sowore to tweet “This criminal @ official PBAT Actually went to Brazil to state that there is no more corruption under his regime in Nigeria. What audacity to lie shamelessly!.

The alleged offending post said to be contrary to Section 24(2) (b) of the Cybercrimes Prohibition and Prevention Act 2024 was said to have been made on August 25 within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court.

In count two, Sowore was said to have on August 26 used his official page Facebook to send the same false message out for the purpose of causing a breakdown of law and order in the country especially among those who hold divergent views on the person of President Bola Tinubu.

The alleged offence is said to be contrary to Section 24(2) (b) of the Cybercrimes Prohibition and Prevention Act 2024

In count three, the activist was accused of using the instrumentality of X, via his his official account X account at Yele Sowore to publish defamatory material on his online platform to wit “This criminal @ official PBAT Actually went to Brazil to state that there is no more corruption under his regime in Nigeria. What audacity to lie shamelessly!.against the personality and reputation of President Bola Tinubu.

He was said to have committed an offence contrary to section 375 of the Criminal Code.

The Department of the State Service DSS which filed the charges on behalf of the federal government also accused Sowore of using the instrumentality of his Facebook platform to publish defamatory material against the Nigeria’s President contrary to section 375 of the Criminal Code.

In count five, the defendant was alleged to have intent to cause public fear and disturbances published false information against the reputation of President Bola Tinubu contrary to section 59 of the Criminal Code Act and punishable under the same act.

The Director of the Public Prosecution of the Federation DPPF, Mohammed Babadoko Abubakar signed the charges.

Meanwhile, no date has been fixed for arraignment of the defendants.

The DSS had two weeks ago wrote, Sowore and other defendants to pull down the offending post or be prepared to face the legal consequences.

The charges read, “That you, Omoyele Sowore, adult, male on or about the 25th day of August, 2025, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did use your official X Handle page, @Yele Sowore, to send out a message/ tweet as : ‘THIS CRIMINAL @ OFFICIAL PBAT ACTUALLY WENT TO BRAZIL TO STATE THAT THERE IS NO MORE CORRUPTION UNDER HIS REGIME IN NIGERIA. WHAT AUDACITY TO LIE SHAMELESSLY!’, which you know the said message to be false but posted it for the purpose of causing a breakdown of law and order in the country, especially among individuals who hold divergent views on the personality of the President and Commander- in- Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 24 (1) (b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Amendment Act, 2024.”

Count Two read, “That you, Omoyele Sowore, adult male on or about the 26th day of August, 2025, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did use your official Facebook page, Omoyele Sowore, to send out a message/ post as : ‘THIS CRIMINAL @ OFFICIAL PBAT ACTUALLY WENT TO BRAZIL TO STATE THAT THERE IS NO MORE CORRUPTION UNDER HIS REGIME IN NIGERIA. WHAT AUDACITY TO LIE SHAMELESSLY!’, which you know the said message/post to be false but posted it for the purpose of causing a breakdown of law and order in the country, especially among individuals who hold divergent views on the personality of the President and Commander- in- Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 24 (1) (b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Amendment Act, 2024.”

Count Three, “That you, Omoyele Sowore, adult, male on or about the 25th day of August, 2025, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, using the instrumentality of X, via your official X account @Yele Sowore, did knowingly published defamatory material on your online platform viz: ‘THIS CRIMINAL @ OFFICIAL PBAT ACTUALLY WENT TO BRAZIL TO STATE THAT THERE IS NO MORE CORRUPTION UNDER HIS REGIME IN NIGERIA. WHAT AUDACITY TO LIE SHAMELESSLY!’, against the personality and reputation of the President and Commander- in- Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 375 of the Criminal Code Act.

Count Four, “That you, Omoyele Sowore, adult, male on or about the 26th day of August, 2025, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, using the instrumentality of Facebook, via your official Facebook account Omoyele Sowore, did knowingly published defamatory material on your online platform viz: ‘THIS CRIMINAL @ OFFICIAL PBAT ACTUALLY WENT TO BRAZIL TO STATE THAT THERE IS NO MORE CORRUPTION UNDER HIS REGIME IN NIGERIA. WHAT AUDACITY TO LIE SHAMELESSLY!’, against the personality and reputation of the President and Commander- in- Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 375 of the Criminal Code Act.

Count Five read, “That you, Omoyele Sowore, adult, male on or about the 26th day of August, 2025, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to cause public fear and disturbance, published false information on your official X and Facebook account @Yele Sowore, respectively, against the personality and reputation of the President and Commander- in- Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 59 of the Criminal Code Act and punishable under the same

President Donald Trump cannot remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors for now, a federal appeals court said in an emergency ruling Monday, hours before the central bank’s two-day monetary policy meeting kicks off.

The decision from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, split 2-1 along party lines, marks another defeat for the White House’s efforts to control the Fed and economic policy. Trump has sought to oust Cook over allegations of mortgage fraud, though Cook has not been charged with any wrongdoing.

The Federal Reserve Act specifies that presidents can only fire Fed governors “for cause,” and Trump has sought to leverage allegations of mortgage fraud as a sufficient cause for firing.

“In this court, the government does not dispute that it failed to provide Cook even minimal process—that is, notice of the allegation against her and a meaningful opportunity to respond—before she was purportedly removed,” Judges Bradley Garcia and Michelle Childs wrote in their opinion.

“The district court issued its preliminary injunction after finding that Cook is likely to succeed on two of her claims: her substantive, statutory claim that she was removed without ‘cause’… and her procedural claim that she did not receive sufficient process prior to her removal in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment,” Garcia and Childs wrote.

In his dissenting opinion, Judge Gregory Katsas wrote that “President Trump removed Cook for cause.”

White House officials and Cook’s attorneys did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment following the ruling.

The court’s decision comes just weeks after Trump said he fired Cook, who responded by suing Trump based on “an unsubstantiated allegation” and that her firing violated her due process rights. If Trump is ultimately successful in removing Cook, it would mark the first time a Fed governor was fired by a president in the central bank’s 111-year history.

At the same time the court ruled Trump couldn’t immediately fire Cook, Stephen Miran, Trump’s nominee to fill a separate seat on Fed’s Board, was confirmed by the Senate.

Trump’s push to get the Fed to lower rates

The Fed is widely expected to lower interest rates at the conclusion of their two-day policy meeting this week. However, it’s an open question how big the cut will be at this and upcoming meetings.

Meanwhile, Trump’s push to oust Cook, a Biden appointee and the first Black woman to serve on the Fed’s Board, comes amid a campaign to get the central bank to lower interest rates.

As part of that effort, Trump has tried unsuccessfully to bully Fed Chair Jerome Powell into lowering rates, calling him a “numbskull,” a “major loser” and “a very stupid person” for keeping rates elevated. He also threatened to fire him, but more recently has said he’d allow Powell to stay on until his term as chair ends in May.

While seven out of 12 members of the Fed’s interest rate-setting committee are nominated by the president and confirmed by members of the Senate, the central bank for decades has functioned as an independent institution.

Trump’s attempt to fire Cook raises serious concerns about the degree of independence the Fed will have moving forward.

“President Trump’s attempted removal of Governor Lisa Cook, if allowed, would mark an immediate end to that history,” Cook’s attorneys wrote in a filing on Saturday. Economists have expressed similar concerns, arguing that the US economy’s success has been predicated on having an independent central bank, which helps instill confidence in domestic and foreign investors.

The Fed was designed to be independent from politicians specifically so it could focus on economic data – and not political considerations – in achieving its dual mandate to keep price increases in check while supporting the job market.

Politicians often prefer lower interest rates, aiming to boost stock prices and make it cheaper for people to borrow money, both popular moves among voters. But lower interest rates risk igniting price pressures. On the other hand, leaving rates too high could overly restrict spending and hiring, hurting the economy.

Legal hurdles remain

Cook and her attorneys have argued that Trump’s use of “cause” is an attempt to get around a Supreme Court decision from earlier this year that appeared to limit the president’s ability to remove Federal Reserve governors.

Trump, Cook argued in court papers, wants to redefine the meaning of “cause” in a way that would allow him to fire any board member “with whom he disagrees about policy based on chalked up allegations.”

“President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally redefine ‘cause’ – completely unmoored to caselaw, history, and tradition – and conclude, without evidence, that he has found it,” Cook’s attorneys wrote.

The Trump administration called Cook’s claims to stay on the board “meritless,” adding that concerns over whether Cook misrepresented her finances pose concerns as to “whether Cook can be trusted to act with forthrightness, care, and disinterest in managing the U.S. money supply.”

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