A Lagos State High Court has restrained former President and Member, Board of Trustees of the Balogun Business Association, BBA, Chief Okey Ezeibe, from forcefully taking over the secretariat, assets, funds and properties belonging to the traders Association. Others who were restrained and sued alongside Chief Ezeibe as defendants, are Chief Alex Obi-Odunukwe, Chief Ifeanyi Okwuma, Chief Ikechukwu Obiora, Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, ACP Halilu, Area Commander, Area ‘E’, Command, FESTAC, CSP. Tolani, Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Trade Fair Complex, Lagos. The decision of the Court is coming on the heels of last Monday’s alleged purported botched Police invasion…
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The The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Lagos Branch has unveiled the theme for its 2021 annual Law Week as ‘Disruption, Innovation and the Bar.’ This theme is apt especially at a time Information technology is virtually driving major innovations around the world and also changing the way businesses do things ranging from communication to Banking & Payments, Education, Transportation etc. The fast paced innovation, disruptive solutions and services that information technology is bringing about have serious legal implications for every country including Nigeria. It is therefore pertinent as lawyers that we understand the practice of law in this technological era,…
Funke Busari, Lagos Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria, CRAN, on Saturday embarked on a sensitisation walk to campaign against drug abuse. Members of the association walked in commemoration of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26, 2021. Leading the campaign, journalists reporting crime activities in collaboration with government agencies such as NAPTIP, NEMA, LASTMA and secondary school students took the fight against drug to some streets in Lagos informing people about the negative impact of mind-altering substances. Participants started the walk as early as 8:00a.m from Oduduwa in Ikeja GRA area, journeyed through Isaac John…
Funke Busari Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a Nigerian woman based in Brazil, Mrs. Anita Ugochinyere Ogbonna has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja, with 100 pellets of cocaine concealed in her private part and handbag. She was picked up on Friday night on arrival in Abuja via Qatar Air from Sao Paulo, Brazil through Doha. When her bag was searched 12 wraps of cocaine inserted in her private part were extracted while another 88 pellets stuffed in socks were discovered hidden in her handbag. During interrogation, Mrs. Ogbonna who…
The review panel for the NBA-SBL Innovation Hub Challenge has shortlisted 10 applications for the second stage of the challenge which will take place as a session at the Business Law Conference scheduled for July 14 and 15, 2021. The 10 shortlisted applications were selected from a pool of about 40 applications across a wide spectrum of sectors including healthcare, insurance, education, fitness/wellness, transportation, financial services, and legal services. The organisers said the quality of entries received show that given an enabling environment and opportunity, Nigerian innovators can make excellent and significant contributions to the digital economy. The shortlisted innovators…
Funke Busari The self acclaimed Yoruba Liberator, Sunday Adeyemi also known as Sunday Igboho has sent a strong warning to the Federal Government about dire consequences of unrelenting attacks on him. He reminded the government of the dire consequences of the elimination of Ken Saro-Wiwa in the Niger Delta region. This is the thrust of the statement signed by his Media Adviser, Olayomi Koiki. He alleged that the Security Operatives that invaded his house were determined to kill him and tagged the operation ‘Unknown Gunmen’. According to him, he is just a liberator determine to free his people from unjust…
Funke Busari, Lagos Judges in Lagos State Judiciary will not be going for their full annual long vacation this year but will be allowed to go on four weeks vacation, the Lagos Chief Judge, Justice Kazeem Alogba had said on Friday. The judge spoke during the valedictory court session held in honour of Justice Babajide Candide-Johnson who retired from the Lagos Bench on June 27, 2021 having attained the mandatory retirement age of 65. According to the procedural rules of High Court, the long vacation of judges of Lagos Judiciary usually lasts about eight weeks and fixed between July and…
Funke Busari, Lagos Users of the Lagos State High Court in Igbosere have got a new temporary Court complex in Osborne, Ikoyi, Lagos. A temporary court has been set up to replace the court burnt in Igbosere High Court in October 2020 during the EndSARS protest. The temporary court was set up as well as equipped with the latest technology to enhance digital recording of Court proceedings. The facility was handed over on Thursday by the state Government to the Lagos State Judiciary in fulfilment of its promise to relocate the Igbosere High Court. During the handing-over, the State Attorney-General…
Experts and analysts have indicated that the session on “Alternative Currencies in The Digital Age” at this year’s annual business law conference (a hybrid conference) of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law, NBA-SBL, is one that must not be missed by legal practitioners, tech entrepreneurs, business executives and other stakeholders, as it promises to be intriguing not just because a panel of very knowledgeable practitioners and industry players would be discussing another technological advancement, but because the discussion would be centred around the disruption of money itself. A disruption that will be challenging not just because it strikes…
Funke Busari, Lagos A former Vice Chairman of Lagos Island Local Government Area Asekun Sakiru Kehinde has been remanded in the custody of the correctional service following his arraignment for allegedly exporting 1.000 kilogrammes of cocaine. Justice Ayokunle Faji ordered the accused after denying the allegation of a one-count charge bordering on the offence. The defendant was arraigned by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on a charge marked FHC/L/99c/2021. NDLEA prosecutor Abu Ibrahim told the judge that Kehinde committed the offence on July 7, 2021, during the outward clearance of passengers on a Virgin Atlantic Airlines flight from…