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By Innocent Anaba, Henry Ojelu & Onozure Dania As the storm raised by last week’s raid by security operatives on the Abuja home of Supreme Court Justice Mary Odili continues to rumble, lawyers in this edition of Law and Human Rights give their verdicts on the unfortunate development. The Supreme Court had earlier this week condemned the raid, describing it as uncivilised and a shameful show of primitive force. The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Body of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, BOSAN and other stakeholders had also condemned the raid and warned of the consequences of such dangerous action. Govt agencies…

Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja yesterday restrained a member of the state’s House of Assembly, Rotimi Olowo from taking further steps to construct a Petrol and Gas Filling Station in a residential area pending the determination of a suit challenging the construction. Some aggrieved landlords and residents of Irawo Osan, Omotayo Close and Idowu Layemo Crescent, in the Ketu area of Lagos State, had dragged the lawmaker, who is representing Somolu constituency 1, and four others before the court, urging it to stop the construction over safety, environmental and health reasons. They submitted that…

A Lagos State High Court sitting at Osborne, Ikoyi on Wednesday warned executives of banks who fail to disclose the amount to the credit of Imagine Global Holding Company Ltd, Imagine Global Solutions Ltd, Mr Bamise Samson Ajetunmobi and Mrs Elizabeth Anuoluwapo Ajetunmobi. The court says such bank officials risk going to prison. The two firms and the Ajetunmobi couple have been associated with an N11,795,090,000 investment scam, by the claimants/applicants who are aggrieved Nigerian investors. According to the Claimants/Applicants’ motion, over N11,795b is the outstanding investments and return on investments accruing to them from the defendants. Justice Toyin Oyekan-Abdullahi,…

The Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency, HEFAMAA, has shut down Vedic Lifecare Hospital, for engaging unlicensed expatriates even as it disclosed that the agency will be introducing a policy to regulate Foreign-Based Transient Medical Doctors, FBTMD. In a press statement obtained from the website of HEFAMMA and signed by the Head, Public Affairs, HEFAMAA, Uthman M. Ayokunle, the Executive Secretary of the Agency, Dr. Abiola Idowu explained that the hospital, located at Plot 6, Olabanji Olajide Street, Lekki, was sealed for engaging expatriate staff who have not been certified to practice locally. She said: “The facility was shut down…

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has sentenced a lawyer, Kenneth Chukwuemeka Ajoku, to seven years imprisonment for offences bordering on perjury and fabrication of evidence brought against him by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Ajoku’s travail began sometime in 2017, when the Commission received credible intelligence about a group of fraudsters who were selling Federal Government properties. Upon investigation, the convict and his cohorts were invited to the Commission for further investigation, but he refused to honour the invitation sent to him on several occasions. Consequently,…

The breach of power controversy at the Nigerian Law Reform Commission has taken a new dimension as a Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked by a group- Lygel Youths and Leadership Initiative, to compel the chairman of the commission to cede functioning as the commission’s Accounting Officer. The group had earlier in May 2021, written to the Nigerian Senate, asking the legislative body to intervene in the matter, noting that the commision is hamstrung by her chairman from carrying out its duties efficiently and that the board members and secretary who is the legal person to hold the…

The Lagos State Government has announced the names of survivors who are presently undergoing treatment at the Lagos Island General Hospital, Marina. The state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, read out the names and ages of the survivors who were found under the rubble of the 21-storey building that collapsed on Monday while addressing the press during his second visit to the site on Wednesday. According to the governor, six of the nine survivors are currently undergoing treatment while three have been discharged. Below are the names of the survivors, as announced by the governor. 1.  Oduntan Timilehin, 26-year-old man. 2. …

The Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, BoSAN, on Tuesday, stormed the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, to register their displeasure over last Friday’s invasion of the home of Justice Mary Odili of the Supreme Court by yet to be identified, security agents. The SANs, while briefing newsmen at the end of the meeting they held with Malami at the Federal Ministry of Justice Headquarters in Abuja, demanded a thorough investigation of the matter with a view to bringing those that masterminded the botched operation which they described as a…

*says invasion of Justice Odili’s residence, an impunity taking too far. The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja broke its silence on the alleged unlawful invasion of Justice Mary Odili of the court, and sent a clear warning: the Nigerian judiciary can not only bark, we can bite, warning that the impunity against the judiciary must stop. Even more than biting, the Supreme Court sent an alarm that the intention of those that invaded the home of Justice Odili may be more than just searching as their dressing and countenance depicted that as people going to war “to…

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has ordered indefinite suspension of the General Manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA, Mr. Gbolahan Oki, an architect. The suspension followed the collapsed of a 21-storey building at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi on Monday, in which over 15 persons have been confirmed dead and several others still trapped and feared dead in the debris. Govenor Sanwo-Olu, in the meantime, has set up an independent panel to probe the collapse of the 21-storey building. The panel comprises the Nigeria Institute of Architects, NIA; Nigerian Institute of Town Planners, NITP; Nigeria Society of Engineers NSE,…