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Stop Harassing Lawyers, Respect Citizens Rights – NBA-SPIDEL To Security Agencies

The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA- SPIDEL) has urged security agencies to stop the harassment of lawyers and respect the citizens’ Rights. NBA-SPIDEL in a press statement signed by Dr Monday Ubani, National Chairman of the legal…

19/09/2022

Can the President Challenge the Constitutionality of an Act of the National Assembly after Giving His Assent

PRESIDENT FRN v. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY & ORS (2022) LPELR-58516(SC) FACTS: The Electoral Act 2022 was enacted and commenced on 25-2-2022 in accordance with Section 58 of the 1999 Constitution which requires in Subsection (4) that the President assents or withholds assent to a…

18/09/2022

Fuel Subsidy Removal Inevitable To Avert Public Debt Crisis – Budget Office

The director general of the Budget Office of the Federation, Mr Ben Akabueze has said, there is a need for urgent and decisive measures the country must take to avert the public debt crisis among which is the removal of Premium Motor…

18/09/2022

NBA President Constitutes New Committees on Electoral Reform, Professional Development

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Y. C. Maikyau SAN has constituted 4 new committees of the NBA; Electoral Reform, Law Firm and Institutional Mentorship Committee, Employment Bureau, and Remuneration Committees. In a statement by Akorede Habeeb Lawal, National Publicity Secretary,…

17/09/2022

Justice Ministry Ensures Nigeria’s Restoration to Path of Growth – Malami

The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (SGF), Abubakar Malami, has said that the judiciary has made an impact on all areas of Nigeria’s development. Malami stated this in Kano yesterday at a three-day top management retreat of the Federal…

17/09/2022

NBA President Calls For Supreme Court Reform at Justice Aboki’s Valedictory Session

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, SAN called for an amendment of the Nigerian constitution to increase the number of justices appointed to the Supreme Court and to limit the jurisdiction of the apex court to ”certain…

16/09/2022

Discard Appointment Policy on S’Court Justices Now, BoSAN Tells NJC

The Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (BoSAN) has told the National Judicial Council (NJC), the body responsible for the appointment of judicial officers, that it is high time the NJC stopped the current replacement policy for the appointment of Justices of…

15/09/2022

Acting CJN Laments Depletion in Supreme Court Justices’ Number

The drop in the number of Justices of the Supreme Court to 13 has added to the burden of the apex court, the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Olukayode Ariwoola has said. Justice Ariwoola spoke in Abuja on Thursday at a…

15/09/2022

Breaking: Court Orders INEC to Recognize Akpabio as APC Senatorial Candidate

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to recognise the former Minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio, as an All Progressives Congress Senatorial candidate. The court ordered the electoral umpire to accept and publish Akpabio’s name as…

15/09/2022

Lagos Unveils e-law Library, Plans Translation to Yoruba

Lagos State Ministry of Justice, in partnership with Law Pavilion Business Solutions, has inaugurated an e-law platform to ease legal practice and make the state’s laws more available to the public. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice,…

15/09/2022

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