By Raphael Christopher NIGERIA MUST REFORM CHILD JUSTICE — NOT SIMPLY EXPAND DETENTION A NATIONAL CHILD JUSTICE EMERGENCY The revelation that approximately 26,000 Nigerian children enter custodial and remand facilities every year, that about 74% remain in pre-trial detention, and that 68% have no lawyer from their first contact with the justice system, should trouble...
WHAT’S IN A NAME? Patrick O. Okigbo III By placing Chima Ubani’s name on a hospital, Alex Otti has offered Nigeria a different measure of a life worth honouring. Governor Alex Otti has named an 80-bed hospital after Chima Ubani. The news will struggle to survive the week’s noise. A hospital has been built. A...
NBA ELECTIONS: BEYOND CONGRATULATIONS – THE TIME FOR GENUINE ELECTORAL REFORMS AND WEEDING OUT CABALS IS NOW Clement Ugo Chukwuemeka The 2026 Nigerian Bar Association presidential election has come and gone. Winners have emerged and have been duly declared by the allegedly independent Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA). I extend my warm...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The reported recovery by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of substantial statutory levies owed to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by defaulting oil companies is commendable. It demonstrates what determined regulatory enforcement can accomplish when public institutions act decisively. According to disclosures made before the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, the EFCC...
BY FATAI ABIODUN Clearing Misconception about the Jurisdiction of the National Industrial Court over Human Trafficking Recently, the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, Jos Judicial Division, presided over by Hon. Justice Ibrahim Galadima, convicted Victoria Ugwu, Rita Agboeze (Satty) and Prophetess Glory Nwachukwu for trafficking children and sentenced them to two years’ imprisonment and ₦250,000...