By Ibe Uwaleke. Ignorance of the law, they say, is not an excuse to fall on the wrong side of it. Our lives are guided by law which helps us to reap full benefits of our day to day activities in our environment and in our relationships with our fellow human beings. If we fail to take advantage of its gains to plan our lives, particularly in marriages, one will regret the dire consequences of such neglect. So the…
By Ibe Uwaleke. If a baby bites its mother’s nipples while being fed with the breast milk, the mother may either beat the baby and temporarily stop it from sucking her breast or pull her nipples from its mouth to force the child to cry. If the baby continues to do this often and the mother continues to feel the pains, she may decide to squeeze the breast milk into a feeding bottle to feed the child in order…
Adegboruwa, SAN. OPINION. By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa. ALL things being equal, governorship elections will take place in Edo and Ondo States, come September 19 and October 10, 2020respectively, according to the time table released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC). There are similarities and differences in both elections. In both States, the governors are battling for their second terms in office, with political intrigues between the incumbents and their opponents. In Ondo State however, the race is between three…
By Editor. President Muhammadu Buhari on 7th August, 2020 assented to the Companies and Allied Matters Bill, 2020. This is the first reform of CAMA, one of the most important pieces of business legislation in Nigeria, since it was first introduced 30 years ago. Changes that the revised Bill introduces include the following (not an exhaustive list): The revised Act allows single member/shareholder companies to be incorporated in Nigeria – before now the minimum number of shareholders was two (2)….
Falana, SAN. OPINION. By Femi Falana, SAN. SOME people have said that it is against the African culture to speak ill of the dead. That is far from the truth. In the past, Africans spoke ill of the dead and exposed the dead if they were found to have engaged in abominable activities that brought shame to a community. In fact, the bodies of dead men and women who were found to have brought pestilence to a community were…
Governor Obaseki of Edo State. OPINION. By Chief Gabriel Edeoghon This year’s election cycle in Edo state has garnered nation-wide attention not only because of the controversy surrounding the primaries but also because it features two prominent Edo South sons locked in a bitter rematch battle to decide whose vision will control the affairs of the State for the next four years. Post the dynamic Governor Ogbemudia and Alli, the state has struggled to find that enduring, invigorating leadership…
Hillary Clinton in an interview with MSNBC on Sunday praised Joe Biden’s vice presidential search while slamming President Donald Trump as “a wannabe authoritarian.” “This is such a critical election and I think he’s got great choice” Clinton said of the person believed to be in Biden’s final round of consideration, is Sen. Kamala Harris . “We’re up against a wannabe authoritarian who has already hurt our country, our institutions, our rule of law … we just have to…
Kidnappers on Kaduna/Abuja Highway. By Editor. A suspect, Mustapha Mohammed, 26, has revealed that the incessant kidnappings and killings along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway and other routes in northern parts of Nigeria have stopped because he and his other partners in crime were afraid of contracting COVID-19. The suspect disclosed that as soon as the COVID-19 was checked or eradicated, kidnapping and other heinous crimes will resume along the routes.These routes have witnessed several kidnappings and killings. Aside from civilians being…
Outgoing NBA president, Mr. Paul Usoro, SAN. By Editor. A Lagos lawyer and civil rights advocate, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has urged the leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to address wholistically what he termed a recurring electoral fraud bedevilling the NBA elections since the introduction of electronic voting process in 2016. He was responding to the call by a former NBA president, Mr. Austin Alegeh, SAN, who passionately appealed to the first and second runners-up of the…
Wounded Nkiru Obasi A Nigerian woman who was badly injured in the Beirut explosion in Lebanon has called out for help from her hospital bed. The woman, identified as Nkiru Obasi, explained that she recently got a job to care for an old person in the location where the explosion happened and she was there when the tragic blast occurred on August 4, killing over 100 and injuring more than 4,000 people. The Ebonyi State indigene narrated how she…
