April 2020 – The Advocate News

LEDAP asks govt, agencies to display transparency, accountability in managing COVID-19 relief funds

April 18, 2020

Chairman, PTF on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha. By Editor. 18/4/2020. Legal Defence and Assistance Project – LEDAP has called on the Federal Government and its agencies especially the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment, the Ministry of Finance and the Presidential Task Force on COVID 19 to display transparency and accountability in the disbursement of palliatives and conditional cash transfer to millions of poor Nigerians to alleviate the…

How VIPs infected with COVID-19 frustrate govt’s efforts to contain disease

April 16, 2020

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By our reporter. Efforts by the Lagos State Government to stop the spread of Coronavirus and fight COVID-19 pandemic are being increasingly undermined by some rich individuals in society afflicted by the disease. Ashamed to go to the public health facility at Yaba earmarked by the state government for the treatment of patients down with COVID-19, these coronavirus infected affluent members of society are resorting to treatment in private clinics, putting medics in such hospitals and whoever came in…

Why President Muhammadu Buhari extended COVID-19 lockdown for two weeks in Lagos, Ogun, FCT

April 14, 2020

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President Buhari of Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday announced a two-week extension of COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, saying that to curb the spread of the pandemic has become a matter of ‘life and death’ in order to save a large number of the citizens from contracting the novel disease. This is contained in his 60-paragraph speech he gave for 19 minutes at 7pm at the State House, Abuja on Monday. The…

Why I started publishing aviation law report in Nigeria, by Tunde-Olowu

April 11, 2020

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Tunde-Olowu, Esq. INTERVIEW Mr. Adedapo Tunde-Olowu, (FCIArb), (FCTI), was called to the Bar in 1988. He has practised extensively before all the superior courts of record in Nigeria, and advises clients from around the world on direct or portfolio foreign investment and legal issues relating to insolvency, receivership and corporate liquidation. He also represents international flag carriers in matters ranging from passenger, cargo and baggage claims to insurance disputes. He is recognised by the Legal 500 EMEA as having…

LEDAP urges Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to provide testing kits to prisons, police cells

April 9, 2020

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PTF on Covid-19 members. By Editor. 9/4/2020. Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP), a pressure group, has commended the efforts of government to curtail COVID19 in Nigeria but urgently asked the Presidential Task Force on COVID19 to provide safety facilities and testing kits to all Nigerian Correctional Services centers, (Prisons), and law enforcement detention places in order to curb the spread of the pandemic at these places. In a release circulated to media men today and signed by the…

Lagos drops COVID-19 lockdown violation charges against Naira Marley, others

April 9, 2020

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Naira Marley. By Editor. 8/4/2020. Lagos State Government today made a u-turn and withdrew all the charges preferred against a popular musician, Azeez Fashola (Aka: Naira Marley), a prominent politician in Lagos and a former African Democratic Party (ADP), governorship candidate, Mr. Babatunde Gbadamosi and his wife Folashade, for violating the government’s stay at home and maintaining social distancing order for two weeks as issued by President Muhammadu Buhari and the governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The accused were reported…