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Businessman Demands N100bn Damages From Rapper Eldee Over Alleged Defamation

A rapper, Sikirullahi Olarenwaju Dabiri, better known as Eldee, has been slammed with a N100bn damages demand over his alleged defamatory comments on a businessman, Dr Akintoye Akindele. Akindele is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Duport Midstream Company Limited. In a letter to…

19/08/2023 0Comments

FG Inaugurates Legal Aid Council Board

Attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has inaugurated the Governing Board of the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria. The minister who also tasked the newly appointed board members to perform their statutory responsibilities with diligence and patriotism, also…

27/05/2023 0Comments

Election Violence: Investigate Governors, Deputies Or Face Legal Action, SERAP Tells INEC

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to “urgently seek the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate allegations of electoral violence and other electoral offences including bribery against any…

26/03/2023 0Comments

Chrisland Schools’ Whitney Died From Electrocution And Asphyxia – Lagos AG

The Lagos State Government on Thursday said Adeniran Omodesola Whitney died from Asphyxia and electrocution. Whitney a pupil of Chrisland School in the Opebi, Ikeja area of Lagos died some weeks back with the cause of her demise uncertain But the Attorney-General and Commissioner…

03/03/2023 0Comments

New Naira: FCT Lawyers Face Frustration Filing Proceedings

Lawyers and litigants in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, have expressed frustration over their inability to file court proceedings as a result of the scarcity of new naira notes. The News Agency of Nigeria interviewed some lawyers on Sunday and gathered that the…

20/02/2023 0Comments

Innoson Motors, Oil Firm At War Over N430m Vehicle Supply Contract

A firm which specialises in providing vehicle lease services to oil companies, Petronella (Nig) Limited has written a petition against Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) Company to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) for failing to supply its vehicles worth N430…

05/02/2023 0Comments

Lawyers Decry Appeal Court Upholding FHC’s Vacation of Supreme Court’s Verdict

The Federal High Court in Jalingo, Taraba State, recently upturned the judgement of the Supreme Court in the suit filed by Senator Abubakar Sani Danladi in 2021, a move legal stakeholders have decried. In doing so, the trial court set aside its earlier…

28/01/2023 0Comments

Chartered Institute of Taxation Member Petitions Justice Minister over Finance Bill

A member of the Taxation Standards and Practice Monitoring Committee of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, (CITN), Mr. Francis Ubani, has petitioned the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malamai, over some provisions of the Finance…

23/01/2023 0Comments

Raheem: Court Begins Killer Cop’s Trial Today

A Lagos State High Court will on Monday (today) begin the trial of ASP Drambi Vandi, who allegedly killed a Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem, on Christmas Day. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that Vandi, attached to Ajiwe Police Station in Ajah,…

16/01/2023 0Comments

Emefiele: Six Senior Lawyers Write AGF, Warn DSS against Disrespecting Court Orders

A former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, and five other Senior Advocates of Nigeria have warned the Department of State Services (DSS) against disrespecting court orders which prevented it from arresting the Governor of the Central Bank of…

16/01/2023 0Comments

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