The phrase, “abuse of judicial process”, is probably one of the most popular expressions in the realm of adjectival law. Though incapable of a precise definition given its diverse manifestation, it has come to be associated with any unwholesome or unscrupulous use of the process of Court to achieve nefarious ends often at the irritation ...

The best illustration of this was how the party lost the 2015 general elections to an emergent Special Purpose Vehicle called the All Progressives Congress (APC) – an association of strange political bedfellows whose only ambition was to put an end to the Jonathan administration and the PDP’s continued stay in power. By the time ...

The Act is a deliberate design by state captors to further their egoist and bacchanalian self-interests. It was never designed to reform an institution such as the NNPC, nor passed to advance the principles of federalism or doctrine of separation of powers. It is most egregious, expropriatory and unfair to States, Local government Areas and ...

The last five or so weeks have seen Sagay shout “blue murder!” regarding his party’s crass display of character deficit in the handling of certain matters of morality and ethics. Until Sagay empirically concludes that Buhari is serious with his self-professed democratic and moral conceit will he be ideologically entitled to give up hope of ...

Unceremoniously kicked out and relieved of his appointment from the University system, Sagay soon found a new and refreshing vocation in vigorous legal advocacy before the courts of the land and at the bar of public opinion regarding any subject matter, leading its advocacy with vigour, sound judgment and public spiritedness.

Having seemingly covered all loose ends in Nigeria, Kyari understandably crowed about his invincibility. But the highly intelligent celebrity crime-buster failed to take the foibles of Hushpuppi into account. The global Internet fraudster had apparently chosen to keep details of their business transactions apparently as a trophy with the likely intention of bragging to friends ...

Introduction Speaking at the official commissioning of Osun State Command Headquarters of Correctional Office Complex in Osogbo on 23rd July, 2021, the Hon. Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola had stated that, out of 68,747 inmates currently housed in correctional facilities nationwide, 50,992 of them are awaiting trial, while 17,755 have been convicted and serving ...

“Ore, I looked for you yesterday? Where were you?” “I dey for house now? Where I for dey?” “I actually thought you had gone to a court somewhere to do amebo. You know you like to poke-nose into other people’s matters? And yesterday was a special, historic day, with four court cases that generations yet ...

The protracted case of Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare has highlighted, yet again, the primitive retaliatory tyrannical justice system of General Muhammadu Buhari’s despotic regime.

THE best value sincere friends and associates of the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Mr. Abubakar Malami, can inject in his career now would be to ensure that he always speaks sparingly and recognises the need to regularly deploy more time and effort to benefit from informed legal inputs before responding to very serious ...

Chukwuebuka John Okoli-Akirika did not just make a Second Class (Upper Division) at the Nigerian Law School this month, he is also in the top 7.56 in a class of over 5700 students. Only 20 students had a better result. The 2019 alumnus of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) shares highlights ...

The sociology of death and funerals is an important aspect of the African cosmogony. Parents pray that their children should outlive them in order to give them a befitting burial. They liken this to the same manner when fire dies out in the hearth, it is replaced by ashes, and when a banana tree withers, ...

Heightened vigilance, at this time, is extremely important. On Wednesday, Senate President Ahmed Lawan, while receiving the Electoral Act Amendment Bill from the Committee Chairman, complained about what he called “calculated blackmail against the leadership of the National Assembly by mischief makers”. He was speaking out against what turned out to be a successful campaign ...

The refusal of the Senate to confirm Lauretta Onochie, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominee, as national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is a triumph of public opinion.

It’s truly a bold step the Lagos State House of Assembly is taking in ensuring that the law is given a role to play, looking at how the law was initially suppressed especially when it comes to anything associated with crime, giving jungle justice euphoria to flourish. Sometimes being a criminal is better than being ...