The Council of Legal Education (CLE) has given the green light to five universities to commence admission into the Law programme. In a statement made available to CITY LAWYER, the Council also increased admission quota for Tier-1 University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) from 220 to 250 students. Confirming CITY LAWYER exclusive report, the statement also...
Our team has two of this massive 4 bedroom Semi-detached Duplex, with two palours and a room BQ attached. One is Finished; the other is semi-finished. It seats on a 300 sqm Land, with large space that can pack 6 cars; inside Games Village Estate Abuja. The Semi-finished is N220 Million Naira net while the...
The Supreme Court recently affirmed the judgment of an Adamawa State High Court as well as the Court of Appeal sentencing one Sunday Jackson to death for killing an attacker. Jackson was reportedly cultivating his farm when a suspected herder, armed with a knife, attempted to attack him. He was said to have overpowered his...
OPEN LETTER FROM AMBASSADOR IGALI TO RT HON TAJUDEEN ABBAS Ref. PANDEF/NCH/2025/015 16th April, 2025 H.E. Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, PhD, GCON Honourable Speaker, House of Representatives, National Assembly, Abuja. My Dear Honourable Speaker, Excellency, KUDOS ON ADHOC OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON STATE OF EMERGEMCY (SIC) AND THE IMPERATIVE OF IMMEDIATE RESTORATION OF DEMOCRACY On behalf...
Two hundred and sixty students who sat for the November 2024 Bar Final Examinations have posted the much-coveted “First Class” grade, CITY LAWYER can authoritatively report. The figure represents only 3.6 per cent of the entire 7,134 students who sat for the examination. According to details obtained by CITY LAWYER, 940 students (13.2%) had their...
Certificate of Occupancy [C of O] for Allottees of Mass-Housing plots in Abuja soon. 50% Deposit secures you a plot and shields from price increment. Balance can be spread across two years of monthly installments. Estate is built-up with a Police Post, and almost 50 families already resident. Earn 5% Facilitator’s Fee when you refer...
The teenager in Peter Obi’s 2023 presidential campaign viral photograph, Alabi Quadri has been set free by a Lagos Magistrate after the state’s Department of Public Prosecution (DPP) submitted its legal advice to the court stating that there was not a shred of evidence linking the lad to the charge of armed robbery levelled against...
SAYS N300M NBA-AGC REFUND ‘DIVERSIONARY’ Foremost human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana SAN has urged the Nigerian Judiciary to speedily determine the tenure of the Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd). The fiery senior lawyer also decried the controversy surrounding the N300 million donation by the state to the Nigeria Bar Association...
PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE CHAIRMEN OF THE 8 (EIGHT) BRANCHES OF NIGERIA BAR ASSOCIATION IN RIVERS STATE ON THE RELOCATION OF THE NBA ANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE, THE DISMANTLING OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND DISREGARD OF THE RULE OF LAW IN RIVERS-STATE 15th April, 2025 We the Chairmen of the 8 (Eight) Branches of the Nigerian...
“NONCHALANT?” 𝗙𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗢𝗡 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗟𝗔𝗪 𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗟 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗦 BY SYLVESTER UDEMEZUE (A). Questions and Observations by Respected Learned Damilola Mumuni, Esq. (Legal Practitioner) posted on the Law and Society WhatsApp Platform on April 10, 2025: “Please release the results, sir. Also, the session has resumed, and some schools have not received their...