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Esteemed Learned seniors and colleagues, COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON & HAPPY NEW YEAR. WE, at LAWBREED LIMITED your authoritative and dependable practice partner, take this moment, to wish you and your loved ones a HAPPY NEW YEAR ! Of a truth, there has been a lot of Heartache in the World, with the advent of Covid Pandemic and the fall out of Economic pressures! These has brought about a lot of changes in our lives and new skills, to cope with attendant uncertainties! We thank God, for Keeping us alive and well, inspite of the many challenges! As we journey…

The Lagos directorate of vehicle inspection (DVIS) says from January 2022, roadworthiness certificates won’t be issued to vehicles not presented for physical inspection. The directive was contained in a video released by the DVIS on Wednesday. The development follows an earlier announcement by Frederic Oladeinde, Lagos commissioner for transportation, in November. According to the DVIS, the directive will take effect from January 1, 2022. “Starting from 1st of January, 2022, the issuance of road worthiness certificate will no longer be the same,” the agency said. “Only vehicles inspected at the Lagos computerised vehicle inspection test centres will be issued roadworthiness…

The federal government has extended the deadline for the ongoing national identification number (NIN) and subscriber identity module (SIM) integration exercise by three months. The new deadline is March 31, 2022. Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, conveyed the decision of the federal government in a statement on Friday. The statement was jointly signed by Ikechukwu Adinde, director of public affairs at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), and Kayode Adegoke, head of corporate communications at the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). The minister said the extension was granted based on requests by stakeholders, including citizens, legal residents and…

The Federal Government has declared that religious gatherings should be restricted to 50% capacity as part of measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. This was announced in a statement by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha. The statement also advised families to limit the number of visitors during the festive period as the country was currently experiencing the fourth wave of COVID-19. “The Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 recognizes the importance of the Christmas and New Year celebrations for most Nigerians. As we prepare to celebrate…

Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says the federal government will toll the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Abuja-Kano road, and the second Niger Bridge to repay loans used to fund the project. Emefiele disclosed on Wednesday at the closing ceremony of the 12th Banker’s Committee retreat in Lagos. The apex bank governor said that the three projects are funded by the Infrastructure Corporation of Nigeria (InfraCo). “The Federal Government approached us to provide some kind of bridge funding; the bridge funding is almost about N170 billion, and we provided it so that those projects can move on with…

An Ogun State High Court sitting in Sagamu, on Thursday, dismissed a nine-year case filed by one Afolabi Dada against the installation of Oba Kehinde Olugbenle as the Olu of Ilaro and paramount ruler of Yewaland. The court dismissed the case filed by Dada, one of the candidates for the Ilaro traditional stool, on the grounds that he did not follow due process. Dada had in 2012 dragged the state governor, Oba Olugbenle, five Ilaro kingmakers, the Secretary to the Ilaro Local Government Council and the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs to court over alleged irregularities in the…

The National Judicial Council, at its 96th Meeting of 14 and 15 December 2021 considered the list of candidates presented by its Interview Committee and at the end of deliberation, Council recommended the under-listed names of Sixty-four successful candidates to their various State Governors for appointment. They are as follows: CHIEF JUDGE, ENUGU STATE i) Justice Ozoemena Raymond Afojulu CHIEF JUDGE, ADAMAWA STATE Justice Nathan Musa GRAND KADI, SHARIA COURT OF APPEAL, NIGER STATE Kadi Abubakar Musa Mohammed Kigera GRAND KADI, SHARIA COURT OF APPEAL, ADAMAWA STATE Kadi Usman Aliyu Girei PRESIDENT, CUSTOMARY COURT OF APPEAL, OSUN STATE i) Justice…

The United Kingdom (UK) government has lifted the pause on processing visitor visas in all countries previously on the red list, including Nigeria. The UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) announced this in a statement on Wednesday. The government said it lifted the pause due to the removal of Nigeria and other countries from red list restrictions over the Omicron COVID-19 variant. “From 4:00 am on 15th December, all countries currently on the red list will be removed. In line with the lifting of red list restrictions, UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) will lift the pause on processing visitor visas in…

The National Judicial Council, NJC, has barred three high court judges from getting promotion for periods ranging from two to five years, after it found them guilty of issuing conflicting ex-parte orders. The Council, which took the decision at the end of a two-day meeting it held in Abuja between December 14 and 15, said its investigations revealed that the three judges issued conflicting orders in cases involving the same parties and the subject matter. Remarkably, legal disputes that caused problem for the judges, were on the recent leadership tussle in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, involving its former National…

The United Kingdom, UK, has taken all 11 countries off England’s travel red list. It will be made official tomorrow, Wednesday, the health secretary, Sajid Javid, announced. The decision means England will no longer require hotel quarantine for travellers from Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. However, testing measures — a pre-arrival negative test and then another PCR test after arrival — remain in place for all travellers. The health secretary has set out in Parliament the rationale for ending the travel red list, saying that as the new variant is spreading in…