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Relevant Laws On Settlement Of Football Disputes

By Oyetola Muyiwa Atoyebi, SAN, FCIArb. (UK). INTRODUCTION Football (also known as Soccer), is a sport consisting of two (2) teams totalling 22 players, 11 on each team, who without using their arms and hands, try to manoeuvre a ball into opposing goals. It is an…

I Stand With ASUU (2)

By Dr. Muiz Banire SAN How  does a poor professor resist this kind of onslaught? The end message from the above is that where the management manages to generate any internal revenue, 70 per cent ends up in the pockets of these external…

NBA In Focus: Agenda For The New Exco (2)

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN We are in very interesting times indeed, within the legal profession and the general body polity. Last week, social media was awash with the brewing controversy on the alleged pact by one of the many interest groups within the…

As Nigeria Gets Set For Presidential Campaigns

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The mantra of candidate Muhammadu Buhari in the campaign that eventually took him to Nigeria’s presidency in 2015 was one word: “Change”. For a fact, it was not original. 32 years before 2015, in the 1983 presidential election, Dr.…

I Stand with ASUU (1)

By Dr.Muiz Banire SAN The recurrent industrial actions by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Nigeria are not too dissimilar to several other strikes that we have been witnessing in the country. Strikes have become so pervasive in the country that…

NBA In Focus: Agenda For The New Exco (1)

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN At its Annual General Conference held in Lagos last week, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) perfected the change of guards, between its former President, Mr. Olumide Akpata and Mr. Yakubu Mikyau, SAN. Without any doubt, the emergence of Mr.…

NJC Vs Justice Gladys Olotu: Six Months After…

Six months after the Court of Appeal voided the compulsory retirement of Justice Gladys Olotu of the Federal High Court, the National Judicial Council (NJC)’s failure to file its Notice of Appeal due to bureaucracy among others, until recently, has delayed a…

Matthew Hassan Kukah: Nigeria’s Bishop

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “There was a time when the church was very powerful… Things are different now. The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status…

Why ASUU Cannot Be Banned

By Femi Falana (SAN) Those who are berating ASUU for alleged recalcitrance should advise the Federal Government to accord priorities to the funding of tertiary education. Under the British colonial regime, trade unions were prohibited while strikes were criminalised. But Nigerian workers defied…
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