Otu Oka-Iwu Abuja has strongly condemned the recent calls for the Igbo community to leave Lagos, describing such rhetoric as treasonable and a grave threat to the unity of Nigeria. The association, led by its President, Chidi Udekwe, Esq., expressed deep concern over the ongoing threats that endanger the lives and security of Ndi ...

The ongoing Kogi Gubernatorial dispute has led Nigerians to express their disillusionment with the judiciary, which they perceive as being manipulated by politicians. In response to this crisis, the civil society group “Citizens for Justice” organized a seminar in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, advocating for judicial reform and transformative democracy. The event brought together ...

Introduction All around the world, and from time immemorial, governance of man has been a major issue regarding co-existence. Then, there came a system of governance which is people-centric, people-centered and people-oriented. This system of government is called Democracy. It is a system of government that is made to balance the two-way interest in view ...

  “My friend, where are you? I have been calling your line since, you no dey pick” “Where else would I be at this time? I am either at work or at home. But to tell you the truth, I didn’t see your calls. I am at this joint that I just discovered. Omo, the ...

  The just-concluded Provincial Executive Council (PEC) Meeting of the Catholic Laity Council of Nigeria offers another opportunity for the National Association of Catholic Lawyers (NACL) to highlight its various programmes that are geared towards promoting the rule of law and advancing the cause of justice in Nigeria. The PEC meeting was held at the ...

  The justice sector is one critical area of governance in Nigeria crying for reforms. It is not that there has never been some forms of reform in the sector. The point is that a lot more needed to be done. Evidence abound that in Nigeria today, both the poor and the rich are crying ...

Introduction. Over the years, there has been an increasing reliance on the court to decide on cases where major issues of public interest have arisen which has brought the judiciary into the limelight. The behaviour of the Judges, their independence, integrity and impartiality in dealing with such cases have been brought under heavy public scrutiny. ...

    In February of 2022, I published part 1 of the above captioned article where I commended the Welfare Committee of NBA under the leadership of Olumide Akpata for its presentation to NBA NEC for approval, the Uniform Scale of Fees for Lawyers. Indeed, for every association, one of the most important aims and ...

    In Nigeria presently, no political leader is sure of his standing until his case has been determined by the final court that has jurisdiction over it. This shows the importance of the judiciary even to the political class, which unfortunately, is part of the arm of government that is emasculating the judicial sector, ...

INTRODUCTION Error is becoming a norm in Nigeria. It has become our tradition. We have become a country of oddities; a country of one error per minute! We have become unshockable. Sadly, we spend the bulk of our time discussing inanities that ordinarily should not be heard in any serious forum. When some of us ...

    It is becoming increasingly dangerous to be poor. Don’t believe the yarn that all men are equal. Is the man eking out a living on a tired patch of earth on the desert fringes of Katsina equal to his compatriot luxuriating in the cosy embrace of Abuja without a visible means of livelihood? ...

  Apart from corruption, which has become the badge of the Nigerian judiciary, the other defining characteristic of Nigeria’s judiciary in electoral petition is incoherence. Decisions of the Nigerian judiciary in electoral petitions are grossly incoherent with the fundamental principle of electoral democracy: to give the people the power to choose those who will make ...

    It is obvious that in Nigeria today it is no longer the supremacy of the law but the supremacy of man, no longer the rule of Law but the rule of man. Before the law, everyone is equal; the law is supreme, and no one is above the law. For anyone who has ...

Off-cycle elections in Nigeria are elections that are held outside the usual timetable for general elections. When Nigeria returned to democratic, civilian rule in 1999, the expectation was that elections would be held regularly across the federation in a four-year-cycle, but after the 1999 elections, many candidates went to court to protest the outcome of ...

  In July 2013, Akunnia Obiefuna Benjamin Nwabueze, the extraordinary scholar, teacher, lawyer, winner of the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who has died at the age of 94, applied to the Almighty for another five years on earth. In keeping with the record of a man in ...

Victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone. – Tacitus The story of the P&ID case would require a book to detail the intermingling of several diabolical elements of grand corruption, fraud, negligence of duty, money laundering, poor due diligence, and treason against Nigeria. We hope those who know the truth about the heist ...