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NBA Appeal Committee for the Northern Region dismisses Adaeze Anah, Chimeziem and Ochili’s appeals

The Nigerian Bar Association Branch Elections Appeal Committee (North) on appeals from NBA Abuja branch has dismissed the appeals filed by Chimeziem Ifeanyi Amos, Ms. Adaeze Anah and Ochili Michael Obinna challenging their disqualification to contest in the forthcoming NBA Abuja elections. The appeal committee with Abdul A. Ibrahim SAN as Chairman and…

May 13, 20240Comments

Corpus Juris Abracadabrum

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “I am surprised that lawyers can be so blind as to suffer the principles of law to be discredited.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Fugitive Slave Law, 186 (1851) There is a joke that when he or she wants an excuse to impress a client in order to finagle substantial earnings, a…

Oyo university guards arrested for allegedly raping student, as students strip ‘randy’ lecturer

Man arrested in Ekiti for raping four-year-old girl in Ekiti The management of Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo State, on Saturday, announced the arrest of two members of its vigilante group for allegedly raping a female student of the institution. Olufemi Atoyebi, the university’s public relations officer, gave a statement on behalf of the management, informing them…

Prince Harry advocates end of stigma for mental health patients

Sussex Squad feeds 100 special needs children in Abuja Every single person has mental health. So therefore, you have to look after yourself to look after other people... Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Although the visit of Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle to Nigeria has been filled with receptions and funfare particularly…

As Niger Assembly Speaker concludes plans to pay dowries of 100 female orphans as constituency projects

As part of his constituency project, the Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, has concluded plans to marry off 100 female orphans in the state, saying he was “concerned with” their growing number as a result of activities of banditry, The female orphans whose ages had yet to be disclosed reportedly…

Living

Intimate Affairs: Why don’t men like men’s world again?

By Funke Egbemode Which one of you started this new campaign of ‘women enslaving men’ again? I have been seeing the articles on different platforms about how women have a playbook on how they will make men become their slaves. And their text is taken from a book called The Manipulated Man written by Esther…

Opinion

Nigerian ‘Prophet’ Oluronbi bags 34 years in UK for raping female, male church members about 88 times, impregnating other victims multiple times

Michael Oluronbi, a 60-year-olf self styled Nigerian clergy living in the United Kingdom (UK),, has been jailed for 34 years after he was convicted of multiple rapes of members of his congregation. A jury heard that some of his female victims became pregnant multiple times. He was also found to have used his position…

May 10, 20240Comments

Invictus Games: Prince Harry, Meghan arrive Nigeria today

See Photos of Harry's parents' visit to Nigeria 34 years ago Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, will visit Nigeria today, Friday, 10 May, 2024. The visit of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to Nigeria is at the invitation of the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa. The Duchess of Sussex is…

May 10, 20240Comments

Sacrilege! Landlord 71, detained for impregnating tenant’s teenager

“The phenomenon of rape is all over the country, being reported in all the 36 states including Federal Capital Territory and the 774 Local Government Areas of the nation.” – Dr. Gloria Shajobi-Ibikule The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the arrest a 71-year-old landlord known as Adesina, for allegedly defiling and impregnating his tenant’s…

May 9, 20240Comments