The Lagos State Judiciary has granted its employees a one-week Easter holiday. The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Kazeem Alogba, approved a holiday for judicial workers to celebrate Easter from April 7 to April 14, according to a statement issued on Tuesday. The statement, signed by the Acting Chief Registrar, Mr Tajudeen Elias, and Read More…
Young candidates running in the upcoming elections will receive “pro bono” services from Yiaga Africa and the Nigerian Bar Association Young Lawyers Forum (NBA-YLF). The Latin term “pro bono” refers to professional work done willingly and without reward. At the election legal clinic for 30 young attorneys on Tuesday in Lagos, Mr. Samson Itodo, the Read More…
Kazeem Adedayo, a factory worker, was given a life sentence on Tuesday by an Ikeja Sexual Offenses and Domestic Violence Court for inserting his fingers into his neighbor’s 11-year-old daughter’s private area. In her ruling, Justice Abiola Soladoye stated that the prosecution had successfully proven Adedayo’s accusation of sexual assault by penetration. According to Soladoye, Read More…
Tuesday, a Federal High Court in Abuja dismissed a certificate forgery case brought by the Action Alliance (AA) against Sen. Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress’s presidential candidate (APC). In a ruling, Justice Obiora Egwuatu stated that the lawsuit brought by AA was prohibited by statute of limitations since it had not been filed within Read More…
The newly-installed protem National Exco of the Law Society of Nigeria (LSN) congratulated the Body of Benchers (BoB) and all newly admitted attorneys to the Nigerian Bar on Wednesday. At the BoB conference hall in Abuja on December 6 (yesterday), Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), the chairman of the BoB, called 4,711 recent law graduates to Read More…
In a case that has delayed the corporation’s sale of its onshore assets, Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday permitted Shell Plc’s local business to appeal a decision ordering the company to pay $1.8 billion in damages for an alleged leak. Until the court issued a decision regarding an appeal filed by its subsidiary Shell Petroleum Read More…
A British attorney for Nigeria in a lawsuit in London’s courts where $11 billion is at risk predicted on Friday that the trial will expose “on an industrial scale” corruption among British attorneys as well as Nigerian authorities. The dispute is related to a contract for a gas project that Nigeria gave to Process and Read More…
In Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, the Lagos State Police charged two individuals for allegedly planning to steal transformer cables worth N1.25 million with others who are now at large. Fawaz Adebayo, 18, and Aruna Nura, 25, are charged with four counts of conspiracy, a felony, including intentional damage, wilful damage, and stealing. Their addresses Read More…
Sunday Amosu, 25, has been accused of trafficking 1.3 kg of Cannabis sativa by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday before a Federal High Court in Lagos. Drug trafficking is the alleged offence against the defendant. The NDLEA claimed that the defendant committed the offence on November 10 at Aboki Estate in Read More…
Peter Onoja, a former member of the National Union of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Employees (NUFBTE), has been remanded in custody on Thursday by an Ikeja Special Offenses Court for allegedly stealing N72.5 million from the union. Onoja is facing a six-count charge bothering on stealing, contrary to Section 287 of the Criminal Laws of Read More…
