The election committee released the election result for the 2018 NBA National officers election in Abuja on Monday morning. The election which began on Saturday ended on Monday at exactly 6am on Monday and Paul Usoro emerged winner of the presidential election. The chairman of the election committee, Professor Auwalu Yadudu who presented the result...

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Gudu, Abuja , on Tuesday sentenced a former Governor of Plateau State and serving senator, Joshua Dariye , to 14 years ’ imprisonment on charges of criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of overN 1 . 16 bn belonging to the state . Justice Adebukola Banjoko in a judgment which took her six and...

Corporate governance is the system of rules, practices and processes by which a firm is directed and controlled . Corporate governance essentially involves balancing the interests of a company’ s many stakeholders , such as shareholders , management, customers , suppliers , financiers , government and the community . But there is this general belief...

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt , Rivers State , has stopped the All Progressives Congress Local Government Congress earlier scheduled for Saturday, May 12 . Justice Chiwendu Nwaogu gave the ruling in Port Harcourt on Friday after the Police quelled a riot by unknown persons within the court premises. The riot led to a temporary closure of the...

The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, has expressed optimism that President Muhammadu Buhari would assent the Chartered Institute of Forensic and Investigative Auditors in Nigeria (CIFIA) Bill when it gets to his table. Malami, who noted that the institute’s activities were in tandem with the anti-corruption...

The celebrated sex-for-grade scandal that rocked Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, eight years ago, involving Engr. Peter Otubu, a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronics of the institution and Miss Juliet Ivie Okosun has climaxed in the conviction of two siblings, Miss Judith Ivie Okosun and Juliet Obehi Okosun. Chief Magistrate...

A Global Research Fellow , International Center for Not for profit Law ( ICNL ) Washington DC, Solomon Okedara has criticized the Federal Government for releasing what he described as a political looters list. The Lagos based legal practitioner in a statement lamented that the Federal Government ignored the decision of a Federal High Court , Lagos...

Civil rights lawyer , Mr . Emeka Nwadioke has advised the Lagos state House of Assembly to “ urgently repeal ” the controversial land use charge law 2018 . In a statement at the weekend, Nwadioke described the LUC law as “ unconstitutional, ” noting that the law is in breach of the 1999 constitution. “ The land use charge law 2018 as presently enacted...

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by the Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, for lack of merit. Akeredolu had, by the appeal, challenged a July 20017 judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, which upheld an order by a Federal High Court in Abuja, granting permission to Olusegun Abraham to serve Akeredolu through substituted means,...

Representative Actions There are situation where a person or group of persons may want to sue, or a person may want to sue someone else but neither of the above categories possesses the capacity to sue or be sued. Such suits must be instituted by or against some other persons who have the legal capacity to sue and be sued, on behalf of such persons...

Pleadings are written statements or allegations of the parties in an action begun by WRIT OF SUMMONS AT THE HIGH COURT setting out in summary form the particulars of the materials facts on which each party relies for his claim or defence. No definition of pleadings in statute. Only cases give the definition of pleadings – sets out material facts in...