Author: Lawbreed Limited

It is goldmine season for Nigerian lawyers; meal time, boom time, as every election season has been, but now more than ever. Every electoral process, pre, during, and after, often provides opportunities for aggrieved politicians to take their disputes to court, and over the years this has been so much the pattern that lawyers often brandish the elementary fact that election petitions are sui generis; that is they are in a special category of their own, unique, peculiar. The originating process for election cases is the filing of petitions based on the framework provided in party guidelines, the Electoral Act…

THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released new rules for digital assets, providing more clarity on trading in cryptocurrencies in the country. The nation’s apex capital market regulatory body, SEC, published the guidelines ‘New Rules on Issuance, Offering Platforms and Custody of Digital Assets’ on its website, thus legalising digital assets such as cryptocurrency. The new rules cover the issuance of digital assets as securities, the registration of platforms and digital asset custodians, exchanges and virtual assets service providers. The rules apply to all platforms that support the trading, exchange, and transfer of virtual assets; all issuers and sponsors…

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has lampooned the leadership of Nigerian Bar Association over its failure to defend the rule of law. He urged the NBA to go beyond issuing statements to taking concrete actions against attacks on the nation’s judiciary. Wike gave the charge at the book presentation in honour of Justice Mary Odili as part of activities marking her retirement from the Supreme Court and her 70th birthday, which was held in Port Harcourt on Monday. The governor regretted the NBA’s lacklustre approach to social change, which, according to him, is more of a disservice to the nation…

Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal has relaxed the curfew declared on Sokoto metropolis on Saturday, following the protests that rocked the city. The protest was sparked by the arrest of two suspects in the lynching of Deborah Samuel, a student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, who was accused of blasphemy. The protesters, who attacked churches and shops owned by Christians, were asking for the release of the suspects. The curfew, according to the information commissioner, Isa Bajini, will now be from dusk to dawn. Mr Tambuwal imposed the curfew to forestall a complete breakdown. The protesters also pelted…

The Tax Appeal Tribunal in partnership with the Nigerian Bar Association is organizing a virtual training for members of the Bar, litigants, and the tribunal staff on the practicability usage of the recently launched electronic filing application software. The Coordinating Secretary of the Tax Appeal Tribunal, Bolanle Oniyangi, Esq.said the adoption of the electronic filing system was a calculated effort to improve access to the tribunal and to mitigate any obstacles associated with justice delivery that the essence of the tribunal as the first point of call on tax disputes does not warrant any delay. The virtual training is scheduled…

CASE CITATION: ABUBAKAR DAN SHALLA v. THE STATE (2007) 7-10 S.C. 107 DATE OF JUDGMENT: FRIDAY, THE 5TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 2007 COURT: SUPREME COURT SUIT: SC.  245/2004 CORAM: SYLVESTER U ONU, JSC – (Presided) OGUNTADE, JSC (Delivered the Leading Judgment) MUKHTAR, JSC WALTER S. N. ONNOGHEN, JSC BRAHIM T. MUHAMMAD, JSC ISSUE(S): Duty  on trial  court  to consider all the defences open to an accused -guiding principles on discharge of duty thereby -when the defences of justification and provocation may be considered by the trial court CASE SYNTHESIS Facts: The appellant and the 5 accused persons charged along with…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has warned the public of an ongoing cyber-vulnerability that allows a nearby hacker to unlock vehicles, start engines wirelessly and make away with cars. In a statement on Saturday, Ikechukwu Adinde, NCC’s director of public affairs, said the notice was in accordance with the latest advisory released by the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) of the commission, the cybersecurity centre for the telecom sector. NCC said the vulnerability is a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack or, more specifically, a replay attack in which an attacker intercepts the RF signals normally sent from a remote key fob…

A high court in Kwale, Delta state has granted an order restraining the board of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from stopping Godwin Emiefele, the CBN governor, from seeking an elective position. Emefiele, in an application filed on May 5, had asked the court for an order allowing him to stay in office while contesting the 2023 presidential election. Daniel Maidoh, the presiding judge, in a judgement secretly delivered on Thursday, granted the order and adjourned the case to May 25. “The court upon reading through the motion papers and hearing C.N.…

The President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday, signed into law, three bills; the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, 2022, the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, 2022, and the Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Bill, 2022. According to a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the pieces of legislation are meant to improve the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing/proliferation financing framework in the country. The statement was titled, ‘In the renewed fight against money laundering, terrorism and other financial crimes, President Buhari signs three bills into law.’ Speaking…

The Sokoto State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of two persons in connection with the killing of a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, over alleged blasphemous statement. This was contained in a press statement signed by the Command Public Relations Officer, ASP Sanusi Abubakar, and made available to newsmen in the state on Thursday. “At about 0900hrs, a distress call was received from the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, stating that students were rioting over one female student named Deborah Samuel, a NCE 2 student, who was accused of making a social media post…