Round and about Nigeria
Court approves creation of another body for lawyers

Justice Gladys Olotu of the Federal High Court Abuja has approved the creation of another association for Nigerian lawyers different from the existing Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Delivering Judgement, Justice Olotu, ordered the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) to register any…

Round and about Nigeria
Ondo Gov Akeredolu is dead

Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu is dead. According to reports, Akeredolu died on Wednesday. The Ondo governor died at the age of  67. Background: Akeredolu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), and former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA),…

Me and my Lagos
My sad landlord — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

It was exactly at 7 am on Friday, March 27, 2020 that my wife frantically called for my attention that a man in plain clothes who introduced himself as a policeman had come to arrest her.  I came out of…

Sunrise News
*I begged rapist to use condom – Married nurse (Punch)*‘We sold her legs for N30,000; heart, N50,000’ – Eight confess to murder in Ogun (Vanguard)

I begged rapist to use condom – Married nurse (Punch) A married woman, Imolita (surname withheld), has told the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos State, how she was allegedly raped by a security guard, Ibuchi Emmanuel, at a school where…

Sunset News
*Killing of Omobolanle: Reps seeks alcohol consumption ban on police (Guardian)*Drama in Senate over Buhari’s N23.7tn loan request (Punch)

Killing of Omobolanle: Reps seeks alcohol consumption ban on police (Guardian) The House of Representatives has called for a ban on police officers from consuming alcohol and other hard substances capable of inhibiting their sense of reasoning. Adopting the motion,…

Round and about Nigeria
NBA President, IGP lock horns over Prison Congestion (Independent)

Abubakar Mahmoud, president of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), and Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), are not in agreement on the state of prisons facilities in Nigeria, many of which are congested. While Mahmoud lamented the deteriorating condition of…

Lagos News
Don’t pay Ambode’s reduced toxic Land Use Charge, NBA tells Lagosisans (ThisDay)

The Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has called on Lagosians not to be in a hurry to pay the reduced recently announced by the Lagos State Government. The Chairman of the branch, Adesina Ogunlana, made call wednesday…

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