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LawPavilion partners NBA to provide electronic law reports to young lawyers

Ope Olugasa, MD, LawPavilion. By Editor. LawPavilion Business Solutions Ltd, over the weekend, confirmed its recent partnership with the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to provide Electronic Law Reports to young lawyers.Speaking on the matter, Ope Olugasa, the managing director of the LegalTech company commended the Paul Usoro-led NBA executives for the well thought-out initiative of giving back to the legal community, particularly the young lawyers. Olugasa explained that the beneficiaries of this initiative are young lawyers between one to…

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Next NBA president must champion cause of judiciary, rule of law – Kazeem

Ex-AG of Lagos, Mr. Kazeem, (SAN). By Editor. INTERVIEW The immediate past Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of Lagos State, the charismatic, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, (SAN), after a momentous tenure in office spoke with a group of Law Editors last week on sundry issues, including the raging controversy on remote court hearings, his experiences in office and his expectations of the next president of the Nigerian Bar Association, among others. Excerpts: There has been a raging controversy on the…

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The Bakassi conundrum series (1): Before the sun sets

Ex-Minister of Finance, Etubom Ani. OPINION. By Etubom Anthony Ani (Ex-Minister of Finance)I’ll be posting some interesting position papers on Bakassi from my archive collection every week. I’ll start with my favourite treatise on Bakassi.STATESMEN who have taken part in fundamental decisions affecting their country seldom write in the press as they would say things that  could jeopardize the very existence of their country. However where the very existence of the country or a part of it is threatened…

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Daily Times reorganises as Anosike, chairman, Folio Communications resigns

Mr. Anosike, ex-chairman. By Editor. Daily Times Nigeria Limited, the new brand of the old Daily Times of Nigeria Plc, acquired from the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2004 under President Olusegun Obasanjo by Folio Communications Limited, owners of the new publishing outfit, is set to return to prominence in the Nigeria media industry with the constitution of a new board of directors after the resignation of the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the conglomerate company, Mr….

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Court restrains Umahi, panel from probing ex-SSG over N2b CBN agric loan

Gov. Umahi of Ebonyi State. By our Correspondent.  A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, Imo State capital has restrained the Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi and the N2billion Agric. Loan Probe Panel set up by the state government from probing the former Secretary to the State Government, Prof Bernard Odoh.This followed an ex-parte motion filed by Prof. Odoh against the governor and the seven members of the panel of inquiry. Also joined in the suit as first respondent is…

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Entire police unit resigns after two cops’ suspension

Buffalo Police Cops push down a protester, Gugino. Sourced by The Advocate News. An entire unit of the Buffalo Police Department resigned from their assignments Friday after two officers were suspended amid outcry over video showing officers shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground, according to the Buffalo News and other media outlets. All 57 of the members of the department’s Emergency Response Team resigned from the unit, which responds to riots and other crowd control situations, according to the…

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HURILAWS, WCADP call for worldwide moratorium on death penalty over COVID-19 pandemic

By Editor. 6/6/2020. The Human Rights Law Service (HURILAWS) and the World Coalition Against Death Penalty (WCADP), in a joint statement signed by HURILAWS programmes coordinator, Collins Okeke and WCADP director, Aurelie Placais have called for a worldwide moratorium on death penalty particularly at this ravaging period of COVID-19 pandemic. The statement released today called on all countries that still use the death penalty to impose a moratorium on death sentences and executions on the ground that fair trials…

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‘Ministerial blackmail: Lai’s lie against South East’

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. OPINION. By Citizens United Against Political Injustice.Ordinarily I’m not the type that pay attention to noise makers, talk more of airing my opinion to their lousy tones.However as a patriotic Nigerian with a high sense of justice, fairness and equity, I can’t fold my arms while others try to tear apart the fabric of our unity in the name of politics or whatever ill notion they harbour in their minds, thereby threatening…

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Attempted kidnap of seven months old baby foiled by neighbours

Kidnappers in action. By our Correspondent in Abakaliki.A seven months old baby identified as Chizaram Nnaluo, was kidnapped at  Aniekwena Street, in Abakaliki on Saturday, May 23, 2020 by hoodlums who invaded the place shooting sporadically into the air to scare people away.As they succeeded in scaring people away, they rushed into the room where the toddler was lying peacefully and took him, jumped into already packed motorcycle and sped off.But luck ran out on them when neighbours summoned…

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Two South Eastern states up in arms against each other over boundary dispute

Gov Umahi of Ebonyi State. By our Correspondent. Gov Ikpeazu of Abia State. Two South Eastern states of Abia and Ebonyi have taken up arms against each other to forcefully claim a disputed farm land at the border separating the two states. On Saturday, May 30, 2020 war broke out between the communities of both states that inhabit the border areas of the states in which so many people allegedly sustained gunshot wounds while others were abducted as hostages…

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