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Maitama Sule, former permanent representative to the United Nations, is dead. Aliyu, one of his sons, confirmed this to Thenigerialawyer on Monday. He said the elder statesman died in Cairo, capital of Egypt. The family has disclosed that Sule would be buried in Kano on Tuesday. “This is to announce that the corpse of the […]

An unlawful and clandestine attempt is being made to alter the eligibility criteria for voting under the Uniform Bye Laws (UBL) for the purposes of the Lagos Branch elections. We understand that the Executive Committee of the Lagos branch wrote to the President of the NBA asking him to waive the requirement to attend 5 […]

“I wish to register my disgust over the rabid attack deployed against Jose Mourinho Ifeanyi Agwuncha, over his post on this platform. I read that post but couldn’t relate it to the trajectory attributed to it by the overheated reactions; maybe, I was limited by my ignorance of whatever was insinuated to have happened at […]

A former Minister of Information and current National President of the Middle Belt Forum, Prof. Jerry Gana, has told northerners preaching division that if Nigeria breaks, the minorities in the Middle Belt will not follow them. Gana said this while delivering a sermon at the St. Matthew’s Church, Maitama, Diocese of Abuja (Anglican Communion), in […]

Five persons have been remanded at the medium prison facility in Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State, over their role in the alleged forgery of the will of Chief Bernard Ogbolumani. The accused include a popular Asaba-based legal practitioner, Emeka Okonkwo, and a priest of the Anglican Church, Rev. Samuel Azuka Ogbolumani, […]

Ayodele Akenroye has won the election into the training committee of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA). Some weeks back, Ayodele Akenroye, a Nigerian born Canadian Criminal Defense Lawyer practicing in Toronto, sought for the support of many within and outside the country as he contested to be part of the training committee with […]

The Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service ( FIRS) Babatunde Fowler has said about 29 private jets owned by Nigerian organisations are registered in South Africa. Fowler spoke while addressing the need for exchange of information for tax purposes at a 3-day Automatic Exchange of Information Foundation course for selected African countries, which ended […]

The Ministry of Finance has not yet released any cash for the Second Niger Bridge; so no money was returned — Babatunde Fashola, SAN, Minister of Power, Works and Housing. IN that short sentence, Fashola summarized all that has been wrong with the political-economy of Nigeria. In 2016, while executing the first budget of the […]

A group, Joint Northern Youth Forum, yesterday condemned in strongest terms the disrespectful manner the Coalition of Northern Youth responded to an unconfirmed remark wrongly attributed to the billionaire investor Alhaji Aliko Dangote. Dangote was alleged to have described the ultimatum issued to Igbo to vacate the North by Arewa youths as reckless and a […]

The Presidency yesterday said that over $16.5 billion, being part of stolen funds from Nigeria, is being trapped in some foreign countries. The government said that about $430 million is trapped in Switzerland, over $400 million trapped in the United States (U.S.), about $15 billion trapped in different countries yet-to-be ascertained, while $700 million is […]

The Chairman, Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, Justice Ayotunde Phillips (retd.), has given an assurance that LASIEC will not rob any candidate of his people-given mandate in the July 22, 2017 local government election in the state. Phillips stated this on Friday at the commission’s office in the Yaba area of the state. The chairman […]

The presiding judge of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, Hon. Justice Mohammed Lawal Garba and the pioneer Chairman of the Nigeria Copyright Commission (NCC), Prof. Egerton Uvieghara, are among the dignitaries expected to grace the 2017 annual lecture of the National Association of Judiciary Correspondents (NAJUC), Lagos chapter. The event which has as its […]