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160 IMSU Law Students Inducted Into Imo FIDA, Charged On Discipline

TJ Eko - November 28, 2022 0

One Hundred and Sixty law students of Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri, have been inducted as members of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), ... Read More

Articles

Copyright And The Protection Of Creatives By Adeoluwa Ademola

TJ Eko - November 28, 2022 0

This article serves the purpose of educating creatives on the importance of copyright laws in Nigeria. It also provides insight into the major aspects of ... Read More

Nigerian Lawyers

Zamfara State Records First SAN Since Its Creation In 1996

TJ Eko - November 28, 2022 0

Zamfara State has recorded its first Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Sani Abdul Aziz Mohammed. Elites in the state who have been in a joyful ... Read More

Crime

IRT Nabs Owerri Prison Escapees Over Kidnap Of Female Lawyer

TJ Eko - November 27, 2022 0

Officers of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have rearrested two inmates who escaped from the Custodial Centre, Owerri during ... Read More

Metro News

CAC Launches Beneficial Ownership Register (BOR) Platform For More Transparency

TJ Eko - November 27, 2022 0

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) announced the launch of a Beneficial Ownership Register (BOR) platform, which they said would be beneficial in strengthening the Buhari ... Read More

The Bench

Supreme Court Dissociates CJN, Ariwoola From Political Comments On PDP’s G-5 Governors

TJ Eko - November 26, 2022 0

The Supreme Court on Saturday in Abuja dissociated the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, from a political statement on the activities of ... Read More

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Women Lawyers

160 IMSU Law Students Inducted Into Imo FIDA, Charged On Discipline

TJ Eko - November 28, 2022 0

One Hundred and Sixty law students of Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri, have been inducted as members of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), ... Read More

Nigerian Lawyers

Zamfara State Records First SAN Since Its Creation In 1996

TJ Eko - November 28, 2022 0

Zamfara State has recorded its first Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Sani Abdul Aziz Mohammed. Elites in the state who have been in a joyful ... Read More

Nigerian Lawyers

Lagos Trains Judges, Magistrates On Adjudication Of SGBV Cases

TJ Eko - November 25, 2022 0

Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency, DSVA, has commenced a two-day training for Judges and Magistrates on best practices for adjudicating Sexual and Gender-Based ... Read More

Nigerian Lawyers

Chairman, NBA-AGC TCCP 2022 Gives Update On Conference Bags

TJ Eko - November 24, 2022 0

Dear NBA- AGC 2022 Conference Delegates, We write to provide an update regarding the delivery of conference bags to delegates of the AGC 2022 who ... Read More

Nigerian Lawyers

RMAFC Calls For Memoranda On The Review Of Remuneration Of Judicial Officers

TJ Eko - November 24, 2022 0

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, OON, SAN has been at the forefront of the campaign for better remuneration ... Read More

Litigation EXPLORE ALL

Litigation

New Newcastle United Owners Face Legal Action

TML - January 11, 2022 0

Former Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has launched legal action against financier Amanda Staveley, one of the key figures in the recent Saudi-led takeover of ... Read More

New Newcastle United Owners Face Legal Action

Litigation

Kogi Threatens Legal Action Against EFCC

Litigation

Kachikwu Demands N3B From Peoples Gazette Over Fake News

Litigation

Human Rights Lawyer, Omirhobo Sues Buhari Government Over Nigeria’s Membership Of Islamic Organisation

Crime EXPLORE ALL

IRT Nabs Owerri Prison Escapees Over Kidnap Of Female Lawyer

CrimeTJ Eko - November 27, 2022 0

Officers of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have rearrested two inmates who escaped from the Custodial Centre, Owerri during ... Read More

NSCDC Seeks Public Support Against Criminal Activities

CrimeTJ Eko - November 26, 2022 0

Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC has called for the support of community stakeholders at reducing criminal activities at the grassroots level. NSCDC Commandant ... Read More

Fake AIG Operating Since 1980 Finally Arrested

CrimeTJ Eko - November 24, 2022 0

The 61 year-old resident of liberty Estate by spring road AMAC Abuja was arrested on Sunday, November 20 2022. A man, Olakunle Adesola impersonating officers ... Read More

Lagos Doctor, Femi Olaleye To Be Arraigned For Rape Of Minor Today

CrimeTJ Eko - November 21, 2022 0

Popular Nigerian cancer care advocate, Dr Femi Olaleye, a medical practitioner based in Lagos, is to be arraigned in court on Monday for the rape ... Read More

Woman Arrested In Jos For Allegedly Torturing 11-Year-Old Maid To Death [GRAPHIC PHOTOS}

CrimeTJ Eko - November 18, 2022 0

The Plateau State Police Command has arrested the woman who allegedly tortured an 11-year-old girl, Margaret Joshua, to death in Jos. Spokesperson of the command, ... Read More

The Parliament EXPLORE ALL

Aribisogan: Ekiti Assembly Fires Back At Senior Lawyers, Others

The Parliament

TJ Eko - November 25, 2022 0

The Ekiti State House of Assembly said the impeachment of Gboyega Aribisogan who spent only six days as Speaker is irreversible. Adeoye Aribasoye, the new ... Read More

Reps Approve Bill To Establish Almajiri Education Commission

The Parliament

TJ Eko - November 24, 2022 0

PASAN Demands Immediate Appointment Of New Clerk For N’Assembly

The Parliament

TJ Eko - November 18, 2022 0

Politics EXPLORE ALL

Politics

I Will Sort Out My Differences With Obi Soon- Soludo

TJ Eko - November 25, 2022 0

Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra state has said that reports of the alleged rift between him and his predecessor, Peter Obi, who is also the ... Read More

Politics

Sowore: Nigerians Will Beg Me To Stay Beyond Second Term If I Become President

TML - November 24, 2022 0

Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), says Nigerians will beg him to stay beyond the constitutional limit of two terms ... Read More

Politics

Ekiti Assembly Crisis: Purported Impeachment of Aribisogan Political Rascality, Say Senior Lawyers

TML - November 24, 2022 0

Prominent lawyers of Ekiti origin, including Afe Babalola (SAN), Femi Falana (SAN) and Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) yesterday described the purported impeachment of Gboyega Aribisogan ... Read More

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Law School

Bar Exam Result: See Hilarious Reactions Of Successful Students

TML - November 17, 2022 0

Everyone knows how demanding (read that as gruelling) bar exams can be. When the recent bar exam results were published, these successful students couldn’t contain ... Read More

Law School

Threat of Attack: Law School Shifts Venue Of Call To Bar Ceremony

TML - July 26, 2022 0

Indications emerged Tuesday afternoon that the first batch of the 2022 Call to Bar ceremony of graduates of the Nigeria Law School, would no longer ... Read More

Law School

Senate Wants Port Harcourt Law School as Centre for Continuous Legal Education

TML - July 8, 2022 0

The Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters has advocated that the Dr. Nabo Graham Douglas Port Harcourt Campus of the Nigerian Law ... Read More

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Nigerian Lawyers

EFCC: Arewa Lawyers Demand Bawa’s Probe Over ‘Selective Treatment Of Suspects’

TJ Eko - November 18, 2022 0

Arewa Lawyers Progressives Forum has called for investigation of the chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) Abdulrasheed Bawa over what they described as ... Read More

Law Enforcement

BREAKING: Police Rescue 8 Out Of 9 Kidnapped Travellers In Cross River

TML - November 16, 2022 0

Eight out of the Nine travellers who were kidnapped by suspected Fulani Herdsmen on the Ikom-Calabar Highway on 14 November, 2022, have been rescued by ... Read More

Law Enforcement