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By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu IN THE WEEK in which former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai abandoned the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to chart a different political trajectory with the Social Democratic Party (SDP), his son, Bashir, characteristically made it known that “Southern Kaduna residents will…

By O. M. Atoyebi, SAN FCIArb.(U.K) CONTRIBUTOR: IDOWU JESUTOFUNMI Esq INTRODUCTION Free Trade Zones (FTZ) present both opportunities and challenges for national development and enhanced globalised trade between foreign investors and local businesses.[1] A free trade zone is any area in a Country where goods may…

By Chidi Odinkalu Comprising five of the country’s 36 states, south-east Nigeria is the site of resilient atrocity. In the eight years from the middle of 2015 to the end of 2023, the monitoring coalition, Nigeria Mourns, confirmed about 3,000 killings in…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “The judiciary…. has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have…

BY PROF MIKE OZEKHOME, SAN, CON, OFR, FCIArb, LL.D INTRODUCTION Is Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun legally recognised as such under our extant laws, or is he but a pretender to the throne (office of the IGP)? I shall attempt in this writeup…

By Femi Falana, SAN Between 1983 and 1987, the radical military regime of Captain Thomas Sankara changed the colonial name of Upper Volta to Burkina Faso. While the courts bequeathed by the former French colonial overlords continued to dispense justice to the elite,…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In 1954, Sir John Verity lost his job because he won an argument. It was in his ninth year in office as Chief Justice of colonial Nigeria. Sir John arrived in Nigeria in October 1945 from the British…

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN For the avoidance of doubt, the Board shall be responsible for determining matriculation requirements and conducting examinations leading to undergraduate admissions and also for admissions to National Diploma and Nigerian Certificate in Education courses, but shall not be responsible for…

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN Very recently, the iconic Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, appeared before the National Assembly to defend the budget of the agency. A lot of revelations came out of that session, especially from the…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In the aftermath of the announcement on 28 January 2024 by Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Republic denouncing the Revised Treaty of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and leaving the regional bloc “without delay”, reactions spanned…