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More funds, investments in education panacea for national development, cohesion, says Alegeh
July 25, 2024
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Mr. Alegeh, SAN, FCIArb, CON. By Advocatenewsng.com A former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, FCIArb, (UK), Mr. Augustine Alegeh has said that the only way the country will witness rapid development and ensure sustainable national cohesion and unity of the people, is if the government at all levels, federal, state and local governments, increase their funding and investments in education to enable…

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Breach of contract: Lagos High Court orders Sterling Bank to pay Comfort Stevens Ltd N75m
July 23, 2024
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By Advocatenewsng.com A Lagos High Court, sitting before Justice Olumuyiwa Martins, has ordered Sterling Bank Nigeria PLC to pay Comfort Stevens Limited the sum of N75million as damages and cost over breach of their non-disclosure and non-circumvention agreement.  Comfort Stevens Limited, an international footwear and shoe component manufacturing company with operations in United States, Brazil, China and Nigeria had through its President/CEO Dr. John Ugochukwu Nwankwo filed a N20Billion lawsuit against Sterling Bank for a breach of contract.  …

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Supreme Court frees 774 LGAs from 36 state governors’ stronghold, grants them financial autonomy
July 11, 2024
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By Advocatenewsng.com The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Thursday, July 11, 2024 ended over two decades of strangulation of the 774 local government areas of the country by the state governors who wittingly hijack their allocations from the federation account and leave them paralysed from performing their constitutional duties of providing and maintaining basic amenities like rural roads, health centres, primary schools and other sundry projects and services due to the rural communities, thereby making life very unbearable for…

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New UK PM, Starmer unveils his cabinet
July 6, 2024
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New UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. By Advocatenewsng.com Newly-elected UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer on Friday made his first set of appointments into the cabinet. This follows his centre-left Labour Party’s landslide general election victory that ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Starmer arrived as the party’s first PM after Gordon Brown in 2010. He thereafter proceeded to meet King Charles III who asked him to form a government immediately during their meeting at Buckingham Palace on Friday. Below…

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FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike’s wife, Eberechi, 21 others make final list as new Court of Appeal justices
July 6, 2024
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Justice Eberechi Wike (left) and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola. By Advocatenewsng.com JUSTICE Eberechi Suzette Wike, wife of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and immediate past governor of oil rich Rivers State, Nyesom Wike and 21 others have incidentally made the final list of new senior judges to be appointed to the Court of Appeal. The President of the Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice M.B Dongban-Mensem had requested the appointment of 22 new Justices…

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VP Shettima orders MDAs to henceforth buy products made in Nigeria
July 5, 2024
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VP Shettima at MAN’s Summit exhibition of products made in Nigeria at the State House, Abuja……. recently. By Advocatenewsng.com WITH the directive handed down by Vice President Kashim Shettima recently to government ministries, agencies and departments to invoke Executive Order 003 in the prioritisation of local content and promotion of made-in-Nigeria products, it is now mandatory for all government officials making purchases for public use to patronize locally manufactured goods as against foreign imports with their attendant high costs,…

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Obasanjo denies discussing Nnamdi Kanu’s release with Nigeria’s South-East govs in Enugu
July 3, 2024
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Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, (Ph.D), a former President of Nigeria. By Advocatenewsng.com FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday said that the issue of releasing the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, did not feature in his discussion with the South East governors in Enugu, Enugu State while he attended their summit on Tuesday where the governors resolved to visit President Bola Tinubu to press for the actualisation of Kanu’s freedom. Obasanjo said though he and a…

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Nigeria’s startup, Regfyl wins global fintech award in Washington DC, USA
May 27, 2024
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Global award winner. By Advocatenewsng.com REGFYL, a startup specialising in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), fraud prevention, and regulatory compliance, has emerged as the winner at the Africa Fintech Summit Pitch held recently in Washington D.C. Powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Regfyl is an all-in-one platform for businesses in Africa to combat fraud and simplify regulatory compliance. The competition is a flagship event of the bi-annual summit that brings together leading Fintech innovators, investors and policymakers from across the globe. Regfyl…

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Property complainant urges Lagos AG to ignore petition purporting to stop trial of lawyers charged with forgery
May 27, 2024
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Barr Owolabi, one of the suspects.  By Advocatenewsng.com A property complainant, Dr. Obidigwe Eze, a medical doctor, in the criminal charge LD/CR/26/2024, filed against two lawyers and a businessman at the Lagos High Court, TBS, by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), has urged the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice (AG), Lawal Pedro (SAN) to resist the temptation to discontinue the prosecution as requested by one of the suspects.   The defendants in the charge are Adebayo Akeju of Adon…

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Lagos court convicts cosmetic surgeon, Adepoju over client’s death
May 18, 2024
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The convicted cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Adepoju. By Advocatenewsng.com THE Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has convicted a medical doctor and founder of MedContour Services Ltd., Dr Anuoluwapo Adepoju, who conducted a failed plastic surgery that resulted in the death of one Nneka Onwuzuligbo in 2020, FIJ reports. This was disclosed by a former Director-General of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, Babatunde Irukera on Friday. In his tweet, Irukera, tweeting as #TundeIrukera, wrote, “Today is a…

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