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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the March 9, 2019 House of Assembly election for Ondo West Constituency II, Engr Abiola Oladapo, has filed a petition at the election petition tribunal to “retrieve his mandate” from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).    Oladapo said this while speaking with The Guardian in Akure. He called…

Nollywood is growing in leaps and bounds. Third, only after Hollywood and Bollywood in terms of the number of movies released annually, new Nollywood boasts an increasing number of professionals who have graduated from the world’s leading film schools. The quality of its output is undoubtedly improving. But Nollywood has always had a lawyer problem.…

A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo has filed an action at the Federal High Court, Abuja, asking the court to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from appointment the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Muhammad Tanko as substiantial CJN.    Defendants in the suit, which he filed in the name of Malcom Omirhobo Foundation,…

Most Nigerians would argue that they believe in meritocracy (at least in principle) but in practice they are wide off the mark and it would seem that they don’t believe in it at all. How else can one explain the rise and exaltation of the rather scrappy yet exhilarant and exuberant so called “dancing Senator”…

Prof. Akin Oyebode, an international lawyer, believes that the electoral system should be such that ensures that the electorate determine who governs them instead of the courts. In this interview with SUNDAY AIKULOLA, he lamented that with the myriads of electoral crises across the country, it does appear that the courts have usurped the role…

A Delta State High Court, Sapele has struck out the “Stakeholder Interpleader” suit filed by an indigenous oil company, Midwestern Oil and Gas Company Limited to forestall the enforcement of a consent judgment of the Federal High Court, Lagos against it.    The respondents are Seistech Energy Limited, Sapele Power Plc and the Nigeria Electricity…

The appeal filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State at the Supreme Court to reverse itself in the judgment it gave to bar the party from fielding candidates in the 2019 general elections was dismissed last Thursday for being incompetent. A legal egghead and university teacher, Prof. Edoba Omoregie, in this interview…

The internal democracy and the anticipated victory of the All Peoples Congress (APC) in Zamfara State came under fire in a test of ambition and failure on the part of the party’s leadership to curb the crisis in the state chapter.

In his bid to ensure healthy environment and sanitation at Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State, the state governor Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has set up four Mobile Courts to try sanitation offenders.

Justice Saliu Saidu of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos has remanded in Prison custody, a businessman, Cajetan Chike Muonagolu for allegedly dealing in adulterated and substandard engine oil.

A former Minister of Petroleum, Chief Don Etiebet, has asked a Federal High Court, Lagos to nullify the merger between Access and Diamond Banks over alleged non-disclosure of vital information.

Every year, for a month, students from the Nigerian Law School are assigned to courts for the “Court Attachment” segment of their vocational training. The idea is for them to see prospective senior colleagues deploying in practice all that they had been taught in classrooms....