Human rights lawyer and Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law, NBA-SPIDEL, Dr. Monday Ubani adds one today. As part of activities to commemorate the day, the former 2nd Vice-President of NBA has empowered over 100 youths in his hometown, Awomukwu in Ikwuano Area of Abia State with seed fund. Some less privileged persons in Abia and Lagos will also benefit from the empowerment programme which is being financed by his Monday Onyekachi Foundation, MOU. In the last 10 years, many youths and less privileged in the society have benefited from similarly empowerment program in…
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Funke Busari, Lagos Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo will be gracing the Nigerian Bar Association Lagos Branch 2021 annual Law Week themed “Disruption, Innovation and The Bar. This information is contained in a communication unveiling plans for the annual event. The Chairman of the Branch, Mr. Omoyemi Akangbe disclosed that this year’s event will also have David Halliwell, Partner, Pinsent Masons Birmingham from the United Kingdom to give an overview of how technology, innovation and trade liberalisation are disrupting the practice of law across the globe and what it means for the Nigerian legal practitioner. According to him, the virtual…
Funke Busari A former bank cashier, Ebenezer Adeolu Alonge alongside his wife, Isakunle Olamide Oyinlola and his mother-in-law, Isakunle Eunice Moradeke have been sentenced to 60 years imprisonment by Justice Adekanye Ogunmoye of Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti on Friday. They were convicted and sentenced for a 12-count charge of conspiracy and stealing contrary to section 390(9) of the Criminal Code Laws Cap 16 Laws of Ekiti State, 2012 brought against them by the Ibadan Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Delivering the judgement, Justice Ogunmoye said that the prosecution team led by Abdulrasheed Lanre Suleiman…
Funke Busari, Lagos Emerging facts have shown that contrary to a court order restraining Lekki Gardens Estate Ltd and Foreshore Waters Ltd from constructing, developing, building or any similar activity in Osborne Foreshore Estate II, Ikoyi, Lagos, the developers are back on site. Early this morning, construction process were in top gear and already obstructing free flow of vehicular movement into the Estate. Recall that Justice Nicholas Oweibo of a Federal High Court in Lagos had restricted the two defendants/applicants from predicating on any approvals granted by the 4th defendant, (Lagos State Physical Planning Permit Authority) pending the hearing and…
Funke Busari There will be no movement in Ogun on Saturday July 24, 2021. This was revealed in a statement signed by the Ogun State Government Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Alhaji Abdulwaheed Odusile. According to him, the restriction will affect all the 236 wards across the 20 local government areas in the state during the nine-hour restriction for the election that will take place between the hours of 7 in the morning and 4 in the evening, The restriction is at the instance of the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission, OGSIEC, to allow a smooth and peaceful conduct of…
Another Nollywood Actor Ken Godfrey Achionye is in need of help from kind spirited Nigerians to save him from early death. Ken is an Imo born actor based in Lagos and a member of the Nigerian Guild of Actors. His sickness has put him away from public sphere for long and may finally take him away if nothing is done to help him. He is reported down with a stroke as at the moment and is unable to put up his medical bill. A Facebook post by one Ijeoma Dora Daniel is sending an SOS message to Nigerians soliciting for help…
Funke Busari, Lagos There will be no movement in Lagos on Saturday July 24, 2021. This was revealed in a statement signed by the State Commissioner for Information, Gbenga Omotosho. According to him, the restriction of movement for the much awaited election will affect all the 57 Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas across the State between the hours of 8:00a.m and 3.00p.m on Saturday, 24th July, 2021. The restriction is to enable the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, conduct hitch-free elections into positions of Chairmen and Councillors in 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas.…
Thank you so much everybody. I’m indebted to Bro Ekele and Bro Olagbende, and everyone on this platform. Before Sunday I had been having dreams where I saw myself fighting and evading enemies like real-time war, day in day out, like nightmares, so when my jet got shot with the explosives and my flight controls were destroyed and I had no choice than to eject, I just said ‘God, finally, here we go’… As I was flanked by the bandits, I kept praying and I kept telling God to answer your prayers because I know you were all praying for…
Funke Busari The Nigerian Airforce has announced that its Pilot, one Lieutenant Abayomi Dairo came under attacks from from banditry elements on 18 July, 2021 at about 12.45 p.m. The pilot was on a interdiction mission between the boundaries of Zamfara and Kaduna State when it came under attacks. A statement signed by the Spokesperson for the Airforce Edward Gabkwet an Air Commodore stated that the gallant pilot of the aircraft successfully ejected from the aircraft. “Using his survival instincts, the pilot, who came under intense ground fire from the bandits, was able to evade them and sought refuge in nearby settlements awaiting sunset” He…
Funke Busari, Lagos Legal Practitioner, Yakubu Arowoshola Eleto ESQ, has described the treatment he got in the hands of Rt. Honourable Mudashiru Obasa, Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, LSHA, his Chief Security Officer, CSO, some officers attached to the Rapid Response Squad, RRS and the Nigerian Police Force as nothing but torture and brutality. The lawyer accused the lawmaker of complicity in his alledged mistreatment by state security personnel. Disclosing this to CASEFILE on Monday, Eleto said the CSO to the Speaker was quoted as saying that ‘I came to the assembly with a destructive mission and that he…