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The Hon. President of the National Industrial Court, His Lordship, Hon. Justice Benedict Kanyip has called for honorable judges of the lower court to be extremely careful while applying the concept of judicial precedent, that total perusal of the distinguishable factors is important in the overall interest of justice. Justice Kanyip made this point while speaking on Judicial Precedent in Nigeria, at the Justice Niki Tobi 1st biennial symposium organized by ATS judicial consult held at the National Judicial Institute, Abuja. Justice Kanyip addressing the audience A.T Socio-Judicial Consulting LLC also known as ATSJC, is a New York State registered…

The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has confirmed that bandits operating in the country have now been branded terrorists and will now be treated as such. Speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Wednesday night, he recalled that a court order had been sought and obtained and will soon be gazetted. Contrary to the assertion that it took too long to declare them terrorists, he explained that as a challenge that kept evolving, the government needed to address the issues as they arose. Asked how the bandits should be described, he said:…

THE Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Kano Branch, says it has come to the attention of the association that the office of Nureni Jimoh, SAN has been sealed by the police and Kano State Government. The secretary of the NBA branch, Haruna Saleh Zakariyya, in an interim report sighted by the Nigerian Tribune said, “Upon this information, the branch swiftly reacted by directing its vice-chairman, Mr Abbas Haladu to visit the scene as the chairman is out of town.” The secretary further disclosed that “Our preliminary investigation reveals that the said building was sealed by officials of Kano State Government.” Zakariyya…

The Lagos government has released the white paper on the report submitted by the judicial panel set up to probe cases of police brutality in the state. Gbenga Omotoso, Lagos commissioner for information, in a statement on Tuesday, announced the release of the white paper. The development comes two weeks after a four-member white-paper committee was set up by Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, following the submission of the panel’s report. On November 15, the panel submitted two reports — one on police brutality cases and another on the Lekki incident investigation. According to the white paper released on Tuesday,…

Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has sued the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Ltd, Leno Olaitan Adesanya for N2 billion over alleged libellous publications concerning the Mambila Power Project. Gatekeepers News reports that Fashola, in a statement of claim in the suit before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), accused Adesanya of making false and disparaging publications against him in two national dailies; The Guardian and Thisday newspapers on January 11 and 16, 2019. In the said publications, Adesanya had reportedly accused Fashola of frustrating the completion of the Mambila…

Justice Anwuli Chikere of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, declared that the banishment and forceful relocation to Awe in Nasarawa State of former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, was a violation of his fundamental human rights. Justice Chikere held that the manner Sanusi was forcefully removed from the palace after his dethronement and taken by operatives of the police and State Security Service (SSS) on the directive of the Kano State government to Nasarawa State was a violation of his rights to personal liberty and freedom of movement. The court held that the restrictions placed on…

My dear good people of Lagos State, It is with great sense of responsibility that I address you today on the reactions that have trailed the release of the #EndSARS Judicial Panel of Inquiry Report submitted to me two weeks ago, and how it has played out in public discourse since then. I believe — and have always been vocal about this — that we owe it to you, the people of Lagos, to constantly speak and engage with you. In easy times, in difficult circumstances, we will never shy away from making our case to you, while also ensuring…

A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has been re-invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,(EFCC) following investigations into alleged document falsification Fani-Kayode alongside a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenandi Usman, is standing trial on alleged N4.6billion money laundering, before Justice Mohammed Aikawa. Other defendants are Yusuf Danjuma, a former Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) and a company, Jointrust Dimensions Nigeria Ltd. They are facing a 17 count charge of money laundering preferred against them by the Anti-graft Agency. They had each pleaded not guilty to the charges and were granted bails. The…

A provision in the new Administration of Criminal Justice Laws of Lagos State(ACJL 2021) is set to be applied in a criminal trial as an Ikeja Special Offences Court will have two witnesses in the Evans kidnappings case give their evidences online. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, the trial judge handling the case of kidnappings against kidnapping kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike granted leave to the witnesses who fear for their lives to give their evidences via audiovisual means. Lagos State governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu on October 5, 2021 signed into law ACJL 2021. Part of the reforms in the new law include conducting…

Canada has detected two cases of Omicron — the new highly infectious COVID-19 variant — in Ottawa, Ontario. According to a statement by the Ontario government on Sunday, the two cases were detected in individuals who had recently travelled from Nigeria. “Today, the province of Ontario has confirmed two cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Ottawa, both of which were reported in individuals with recent travel from Nigeria. Ottawa Public Health is conducting case and contact management and the patients are in isolation,” the statement reads. The index case of Omicron was detected in South Africa on Tuesday,…