Law

The 1st and 2nd Respondents who are representatives of the Boat Operators, Water Transporters and Dredgers Association via an Originating Summons dated 22nd May 2012 instituted an action at Lagos Division...

These are not the best of times for the federal lawmakers. They have been in the news for mostly the wrong reasons in the recent times. It is either their outrageous salaries and allowances or their superiority contest with the executive are on public discourse.

DN Tyre and Rubber Plc., formerly Dunlop Nigeria Plc has sued a commercial bank and a Lagos church before a Lagos High Court, Ikeja, over alleged forceful takeover of their property at Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has presented a bill before the National Assembly to seek increased punishment for drug offenders and counterfeiters.

The office of the AGF had accused the EFCC of not willing to hand in files of high profile cases in its custody in order to enable the National Prosecutorial Committee study and take action on them and therefore issued a directive to that effect.

The Director General of Consumers Protection Council (CPC) Mr. Babatunde Irukera has secured a N17 million judgment against Coca-Cola International Company at the Supreme Court for wrongfully terminating the employment of a Nigerian, Mrs. Titilayo Akisanya.

In his most recent interview, in August 2017, the following quote was attributed to him, in response to a question about media trials – “Our attitude to media trial is that we will ‘media try’.

The arbitrary and excessive use of pre-trial detention in Nigeria, besides being a driving factor for increasing prison rates, is a massive form of human rights abuse.  

A major way to stimulate interest in arbitration is to educate and train lawyers and create a forum for lawyers to discuss and engage on how to drive forward arbitration in Nigeria.

Former president of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) has called on the ex-Nigerian president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to use his political clout to bring generational shift in political leadership.

The premise underlying all think-pieces, postulations and reflections on the future of Nigeria and the steps it needs to take towards reforming itself and turning all its little cogs...

Access to Justice, (A2J) has called on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to reduce the amount of vacation time judges cumulatively enjoy in Nigeria to nine weeks.