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Keffi-Lafia-Makurdi Road: 19 Estate Surveyors Sue FG For N2bn

19 estate surveyors and valuers have dragged the federal government and five others before the Federal High Court (FHC) sitting in Makurdi, Benue State, claiming N2 billion for allegedly frustrating the irrevocable powers of attorney it entered into with beneficiaries of the…

14/07/2022

Court Summons Police IG, Others Over Lagos Hotelier’s Death

An Ikeja High Court in Lagos yesterday ordered the Inspector General of Police and Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Zone 2, to appear before it over an alleged compromise in investigation. Justice Taiwo Oladokun made the order following an affidavit of…

14/07/2022

Stop Northern Presidential Candidates, Lawyer Tells Court

A lawyer, Othniel Ikpibako has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos for an injunction restraining the Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress from fielding or presenting any candidate from Northern Nigeria to contest the presidential elections in 2023. The…

14/07/2022

Tanko Muhammad’s Resignation And Matters Arising (2)

By Muiz Banire SAN They forget the suffering they had been enduring prior to that elevation. In a lot of courts, heads of courts hardly agitate the needs of their colleagues. A vivid example was during the last Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria…

14/07/2022

Oyo Judiciary Commences Annual Vacation July 15

The Oyo State judiciary has announced that its 2022 annual vacation will commence on Friday, July 15, 2022, and run till Monday, September 12, 2022, both days inclusive. The Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Munta Ladipo Abimbola, made this known in…

14/07/2022

Police Arrest Fleeing Kuje Prison Inmate In Ogun

The Police in Ogun State have arrested one of the inmates that fled Kuje Medium Custodial facility after last week’s terrorists attack. Yakubu AbdulMumuni, 28, was arrested on Monday Morning at Sango Ota after a tip-off from people who sighted him. According to a…

14/07/2022

ICPC Boss: Corruption Hindering Foreign Direct Investment

Nigeria finds it difficult to attract investors to the country due to low integrity and high corruption, the Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has said. He spoke during the 11th annual summit of the Association…

14/07/2022

Allow Nigerians With Expired Passports To Return Home, Fed Govt Orders NIS

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has been ordered to allow Nigerians in diaspora to return to Nigeria with their expired International Passports, Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola, gave the directive in Lagos yesterday. He spoke while responding to a complaint by a Nigerian-American…

14/07/2022

£223,000 Ransom: Lawyer Wants Evans Produced From Jail

Mr Amobi Nzelu, the new lawyer representing convicted kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, aka Evans, yesterday said he had applied to have him produced in court for a £223,000 ransom case. Nzelu said he wrote a letter to the Igbosere High Court sitting…

14/07/2022

Register For ICMC Mediation Advocacy [18 Units]

Mediation Advocacy is the technique of presenting and arguing a client’s issues, position, and interests in a non-adversarial way. A mediation advocate has the responsibility to evaluate a case and provide a constructive problem-solving approach to resolving the dispute at hand. The advocate is…

14/07/2022

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