In this article, CEO of Lawyers in Business International (LIBI) and newly appointed member of the Finance Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Abuja Branch (Unity Bar), SILAS EMEKA AGBARA guides lawyers on the route to financial freedom. FINANCIAL FREEDOMFinancial Freedom is the Second Level of Financial Security, the third and the ultimate being...
BY MONDAY UBANI Before the recent decision of the Federal High Court, Abuja, presided over by Hon. Justice Obiora Egwuatu, I was personally concerned about the peculiar predicament in which J-k Gadzama, SAN, found himself. The three-year suspension imposed on him by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) appeared capable of running its full course...
Justice Sylvanus Oriji Should Do the Right Thing & Recuse Himself from CV/008/2026, Safwan Garba & Anor v. Jordan Wike When the Chief Justice Sodeinde Sowemimo constituted panel of @SupremeCourtNg to hear the appeal in the governorship case of Jim Nwobodo v. Christian Onoh in the Anambra State election petition following the Anambra State governorship...
By Steve Sun RENEWED HOPE FOR NNAMDI OSUJI & MR. BEN MENE-EJEGI, VIS-À-VIS THE RECENT FHC JUDGMENT IN CHIEF JK GADZAMA’S SUIT. INTRODUCTIONThis brief advances the proposition that the Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) Directions in Nnamdi Osuji v. LPDC (SC/CV/278/2021; (2025) 17 NWLR (Pt. 2014) 317), Ben Mene-Ejegi v. NBA & LPDC (SC/481/2018, delivered...
There are encounters in life that, though brief, leave an enduring impression. My first encounter with our dear senior and learned brother silk, Senator Kanu Godwin Agabi, SAN, CON, was one such encounter. It took place in early 1993 and marked the beginning of a relationship that has, over the years, enriched my professional and...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu When he announced the military coup in Nigeria on 15 January 1966, Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu denounced a confederacy of “political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand 10 percent.” At the time, Nigeria was mostly funded by agriculture and solid minerals. Seven years...
In this article, senior lawyer and prominent political analyst FRANK TIETIE urges President Bola Tinubu to pursue establishment of State Police, adding that he should resist being intimidated and blackmailed by the mixed reactions trailing his decision to remove petroleum subsidies The only way President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be different from former President Goodluck...
By Lawrence Udo Edet When a Judge reframes, clarifies or expands an existing issue based on the evidence already presented, the Court is simply exercising its inherent power to evaluate the case holistically. Courts are established to do substantial justice, so should not be blinded by rigid or narrow framing of issues by Counsel. Reframing...
* THERE ARE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: NIGERIA MUST NOT DESCEND There is something increasingly unsettling about Nigeria’s political environment as we approach the 2027 general elections. Political competition appears to be giving way, gradually but unmistakably, to political intolerance. Threats, intimidation, bullying and open hostility are becoming disturbingly familiar features of our political discourse. This should...
By Frank Tietie Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been trending recently in the Nigerian media for good reasons, and even die-hard critics of President Bola Tinubu and opposition figures have been unable to fault the Commission’s unprecedented achievements in just 3 and a half years. Under the Bola Tinubu administration, between October...