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By AARE AFE BABALOLA, OFR,  CON, SAN, LL.D (Lond.) For many years, the quality of lawyers produced and injected into the Nigerian legal profession has waned at such a geometric state that worries even the most optimistic lawyers.  Those who had the privilege…

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN Permit me to first share with you the life and times of a Lagosian who was well respected and cherished. Olatunji Fortunatus Gomez was born on 18 March 1928 and was admitted to the Nigerian Bar in 1961. Fondly…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In March 2017, columnist, Eric Teniola, began his article tracing the history of appointments to the Nigerian Supreme Court with the following lines: “[c]risis is not new to the Supreme Court in Nigeria. From inception, there has always been one crisis…

By Abdulrasheed Ibrahim, Notary Public On 1st October 2022, Nigeria celebrated her 62nd independent anniversary. I continue to be worried that if the military had ruled the country for the greater part of years preceding 1999 when the country returned to democracy, without…

By Chief Mike Ozekhome CON, SAN Introduction It is no longer news that the Federal Government has refused to release Nnamdi Kanu, in spite of the Court of Appeal judgßement delivered on the 13th of October, 2022, to that effect. The intermediate court had…

By Femi Falana, SAN Background  In the case of Nnamdi Kanu v Federal Government of Nigeria, the Defendant was charged with treason and allied offences before the Federal High Court. During the pendency of the case, the Defendant jumped bail and fled to the United Kingdom.…

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN There are several historical versions of the true LAGOS, but one recurring one is that it is claimed by itinerant traders called the Aworis, who have today become the Olofins, the present land-owning families in Lagos State. Given its…

The notice of appeal filed by the Federal Government to the Supreme Court, in protest against the discharge of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu by the Court of Appeal is again a missed opportunity by government to…