‘Nonso Azih is a Lagos-based maritime and commercial litigation lawyer. He is the Principal Counsel of AZIH & AZIH Legal Practitioners, and an Executive Committee Member of Nigerian Maritime Law Association (NMLA). In this article, he dissects the ‘Nigerian Ports Economic Regulatory Agency (NPERA) Act as a new paradigm for a robust port economy President Bola Tinubu assented to the...

By Kachi E. Agwu Recent public discussion surrounding the decision against Chief J-K Gadzama, SAN, by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) has understandably generated strong reactions. For the general public, the language of a disciplinary sanction against a Senior Advocate can create an immediate impression of serious wrongdoing. But there is a much longer and more complicated story behind...

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Of the many vocations known to humanity, few are as rooted in macho masculinity as the military and the law. In tales of both war and law, the advances recorded by women over the past century have been nothing short of remarkable. In 1970, Pakistan’s ruler was a four-star army general who had fought in World...

In this satirical commentary, Yomi Obafemi, a Legal Practitioner, interrogates the N500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira) “Fee for Transmission of Record” set out in the recently released SUPREME COURT (MANDATORY UPLOAD OF ELECTRONIC COPIES OF PROCESSES, RECORD OF APPEAL, AND OTHER MATTERS) PRACTICE DIRECTIONS, 2026 LADY JUSTICE Lady Justice! Why is your veil down?Have you stopped feeling the tearsThat fall...

By George Ogunjimi In Nigeria, a receipt for the purchase of land is generally evidence of payment and may constitute evidence of a transaction, but it is not, standing alone, conclusive proof of ownership of the land. The distinction between proof of payment and proof of title is important because a person may prove that he paid money for land...