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The Ondo State Government has announced that it would begin to sanction defaulters of its Land Use Charge from December 1, 2021. This was disclosed by the Chairman of the Ondo State Internal Revenue Service (ODIRS), Mr Tolu Adegbie, during a sensitisation day in Akure the state capital. Adegbie warned that the task force has been empowered to begin enforcement on commercial and industrial properties in the state “The year is running to an end and this charge is paid annually, so a lot of people have not paid for a while and we’ve been doing sensitisation on the television…

Nigerian-born Dapo Akande, a professor of public international law at the University of Oxford, has been elected into the International Law Commission (ILC). The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office announced the development on Friday. Akande was nominated as the UK and Nigeria’s candidate for the commission. His nomination made him the first-ever candidate to be selected in a joint nomination by the UK and Nigeria. His nomination was also supported by Japan, Kenya and Slovenia. The UK government had described his nomination as a demonstration of the UK and Nigeria’s “shared confidence that he will bring those high standards…

The maiden edition of Iyake festival, the celebration of wonders of Ado Awaye Hills, will holds between December 1st and 4th this year. The four day program is put together by the Ado Awaye Tourism Heritage Development initiative under the leadership of His Royal Majesty, Oba Rev’d Olugbile Folakanmi, the Alado Of Ado Awaye. According to the press statement signed by the Chairman, Central Planning Committee of the festival, Alhaji Alade Bello, the program will kick start with a Bike Race from Ibadan to Ado Awaye and a four aside football competition on day one . The second day tagged…

The Police at Force headquarters on Thursday paraded 14 suspects over the invasion of the Abuja residence of Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili, describing them as impostors who were unknown to any of the nation’s security forces. Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba who paraded the suspects at Force Criminal Investigations Department, said one of them is a fake Chief Superintendent of Police, (CSP Lawrence Ajojo) while seven (7) others who are still at large conspired to raid the residence following information that the Supreme Court Justice was keeping a large sum of money in foreign currencies. “The seven…

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Women’s Forum has strongly condemned the fracas between two female lawyers at a Magistrate’s Court in Lagos. A statement on Wednesday, signed by Head of the Forum’s Advocacy Committee, Folashade Alli, reads: “In what is gradually becoming a worrisome and unwholesome trend, the Nigerian Bar Association Women’s Forum (NBAWF) is concerned by the tendency of learned colleagues to resort to physical and violent confrontations within the courtroom and before the full glare of the public. The Nigerian Bar Association Women Forum (NBAWF), through its Advocacy Committee, strongly condemns the actions of two female legal practitioners Ms. Nkiru Nwayanwu…

The Chief Judge of Ogun State, Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu, has decried the invasion of her court by thieves in Abeokuta and stealing of valuable digital equipment for court use. Dipeolu alleged that the thieves had carted away some equipment procured by Governor Dapo Abiodun for virtual court sittings. She said the stealing of the equipment brought about the delay in the digitisation of the state judiciary. Speaking at the launch of an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) tool for judges to aid quick dispensation of justice in Ogun, the Chief Judge said Ogun had begun the partial digitisation of…

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday expressed displeasure at the decision by defence lawyers in the trial of the self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu. Justice Nyako however declined the request by the prosecution to deem Kanu’s application abandoned, his lawyers having decided to boycott proceedings. As it has become the practice in recent time, armed security operatives, drawn from the State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) flooded the Federal High Court premises as early as 6am. They screened everybody and decided…

Boeing Co. said it reached a legal settlement with families of those killed in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max jet crash, admitting the company’s liability and agreeing to negotiate compensation payouts in a Chicago court. The aircraft maker, which was sued by the families, “admits and stipulates to its liability for the compensatory damages,” and that “the measure and elements of plaintiffs’ damages” for each of the lawsuits filed in the Ethiopia Air case will be determined under Illinois law, according to the proposed agreement, which was filed Wednesday in a Chicago federal court. While the agreement is a significant step…

Justice Peter Odo Lifu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, today, ordered a lawyer, Mr. Kehinde Awowole to produce his client, a businesswoman, Princess Toyin Kolade, who was alleged to involved in alleged $32 million USD fraud, in court on December 3. Princess Toyin Akolade alongside six others, were charged before the court by the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) in a charge marked FHC/L/407c/2019, on for alleged fraud of the above mentioned sum, by false pretence. Others charged alongside the Businesswoman are four India Nationals, Prem Garg, Devashish Garg, Bhagwan Simgh Rawat and…

Following the first ever global surveys examining the mental wellbeing of legal professionals at both an individual and institutional level, a new International Bar Association (IBA) report identifies worrying mental wellbeing trends across the profession and provides ten principles for legal workplaces and organisations to help address the crisis. The Co-Chairs of the Taskforce that led the project, Steven Richman, Member, Clark Hill PLC, Princeton, and Deborah Enix-Ross, Senior Advisor, International Dispute Resolution Group at Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, stated: ‘It is our hope that the mental wellbeing principles set out in the report will aid the legal profession…