Category: Judiciary

NBA executives at the press conference in Lagos on Friday last week. From left to right: Dr. Charles Mekwunye, Chair, NBA-SPIDEL, Dr. Monday Onyekachi Ubani, NBA president, Mr. Olumide Akpata, Esq., Publicity Secretary, Dr. Nduka Rapulu and Mrs. Uche Nwadialor, Assistant General Secretary. By Publisher, Advocatenewsng.com Determined to pursue and end the recurring dastardly and infamous attacks on the nation’s judiciary by the central government, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to constitute an independent…

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Wike, Rivers State governor. By Executive Editor, Judiciary.Governor of Rivers State, in the South-South region of Nigeria, Nyesom Wike, a lawyer, has urged Nigerian lawyers at the just concluded annual general conference, (AGC), to reawaken their activism status and responsibility as trustees of the nation’s judiciary and vehemently defend Nigeria’s democracy, judicial independence and rule of law, as well as fight against intimidation and all forms of impunity which the present government at the centre is applying to ‘misgovern’…

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By Judicial Editor (Advocatenewsng.com). A businessman and chairman of Eunisell Limited, Mr. Chika Ikenga, has told a Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, how a former employee of the company, Mr Kenneth Ndubuisi Amadi working in his company as chief executive officer, (CEO) allegedly defrauded him by paying money into Eunisell’s account from his own personal and company accounts without him knowing the source of the the funds. The amount involved was N2.9billion.Mr. Ikenga further  told the court that…

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MD of LawPavilion, Olugasa Ope.President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olumide Akpata has over the weekend for the second time in a row unveiled the Association’s partnership with the foremost LegalTech company, LawPavilion to provide ‘an efficient legal research tool (“Primsol”)’ to members of the Association. This partnership, according to the President, is the Association’s way of enhancing legal research and the overall practice of its members.Speaking further on the partnership, Ope Olugasa, the MD of LawPavilion…

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Senator Peter Nwaoboshi. By Editor, Judiciary. A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos has discharged and acquitted Senator Peter Nwaoboshi and his two firms of the N322million money laundering charge filed against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke who freed the sitting Senator held that the EFCC failed to call vital witnesses and tender concrete evidence to prove the elements of the offences for which it charged the defendants. Nwaoboshi, a Peoples’ Democratic…

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Justice Tanko Muhammad, CJN. The Supreme Court has set aside the conviction of three senior lawyers barred from practicing in Nigeria over alleged professional misconduct. The three lawyers were sanctioned by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) for various misconducts in the discharge of their profession practices. However in separate judgments by the Apex Court on Friday, the disciplinary measures matted on them were voided and set aside having been done in breach of the provisions of the laws…

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Justice John Tsoho, CJ, FHC. By Editor, (Judiciary). A Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on Tuesday vehemently refused to accede to the request made by a known Nigerian business mogul and legal practitioner, Jimoh Ibrahim to vacate an interim order the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) obtained from the court to seize his valuable properties for allegedly owing the sum of N69.4billion unrecovered debt.  His assets the court asked AMCON to seize pending the time the court…

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MD, LawPavilion, Mr. Olugasa. By Editor, (HiTech&Digital Economy).In a bid to ensure that no lawyer in Nigeria is left behind in adopting technology in this new normal, LawPavilion has characteristically further disrupted Law Reporting and Electronic Legal Research in Nigeria by releasing an application that allows Judges and Lawyers to carry out their electronic legal research seamlessly with minimal internet connectivity, using WhatsApp. Recently, The Advocate News spoke to Ope Olugasa, the managing director of the company, on how…

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Mr. Chika Ikenga. By our Correspondent. Justice Taiwo Taiwo of a Federal High Court Abuja has ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP), DIG Michael Anthony Ogbizi (FCID) and DCP Augustine Sanomi (CP Legal) (respondents) to refile the charge and prosecute Chika Ikenga, Suraji Yakubu and Eunisell Chemicals Limited for offences earlier filed against them on October 5, 2018 but withdrawn on February 26, 2019 by the respondents. Chika Ikenga and others were charged for offences bordering on false…

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