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By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) aroused the rage of Nigerians this week when it revealed in its periodic newsletter called “EFCC Alert” (which it shared with news organizations on Monday) that it had recovered up to…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On 26 December, 1991, Algerians voted in the first round of parliamentary elections. Over 40 parties fielded candidates. As returns started coming through, it became clear the country was in the throes of a political earthquake. The Islamic Salvation…

By Dr.Muiz Banire SAN In several of my public discourses, I have interrogated the challenges facing serving judges in Nigeria, particularly regarding their remunerations. Beyond these interventions, I have had the opportunity to serve on various committees at different levels, notably within the…

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN In Nigeria presently, no political leader is sure of his standing until his case has been determined by the final court that has jurisdiction over it. This shows the importance of the judiciary even to the political class, which…

By Farooq Kperogi President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is so inordinately inebriated by his IMF-motivated decision to remove subsidies on petrol that at every opportunity he has, he brags about it in giddily superlative terms. For example, during a meeting with the Nigerian community…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In January 2014, a coalition of advocates, including Femia Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN); Jiti Ogunye and Tokunbo Mumuni, both senior lawyers; and I wrote to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), inviting it to “to investigate the…

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN Generally, justice connotes a system put in place for the resolution of disputes, to determine rights and wrongs, leading to the award of benefits or the imposition of burdens. According to the learned authors of Legal Information Institute of…

By Muiz Banire, SAN A few days ago, I read about the disbursement of another sum of N2.07 trillion to various levels of government as statutory allocations accruable as revenue for February, 2024. The entitled entities include the federal, state, and local governments.…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu 22.5 kilometres south-west of Sokoto, there used to exist a community called Satiru. In March 1906, it was extinguished from the face of the earth. Three years earlier, in July 1903, the British had massacred Muhammadu Attahiru, the 11th Sultan…