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Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has called on the Nigerian Bar Association(NBA) to report every lawyer that took part in the raid on Justice Mary Odili’s house to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee(LPDC) for santions, “otherwise, such attacks will continue to be unleashed on Judges, from to time, by the sworn enemies of the Rule of Law in the corridors of power”. Falana said this in a statement titled “Second attack on Justice Mary Peter-Odili”, where he narrated how the Supreme Court Justice was attacked in February last year. He said: “On February 21, 2020, a gang of armed thugs…

There was pandemonium, Monday, when hoodlums laid siege to the Lagos State High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square over the shooting of one of their own by a warder from Kirikiri Prisons. The hoodlums caused panic, which made all the judges to end proceedings abruptly and immediately left the court, while registrars and litigants also took to their heels. The hoodlums demobilised two Black Marias that brought the Ikoyi inmates to court. According to an eyewitness, the victim was shot while trying to interact with some of the inmates in the Black Maria. He refused to heed several warnings…

90-year-old professor of Law, Toriola Oyewo Ajagbe, who was elevated to the position of Senior Advocate of Nigeria by the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee some days back, tells OLUFEMI OLANIYI how he grudgingly studied Law based on the advice of Basorun Kola Daisi and the role Aare Afe Babalola(SAN) played in his life When and where were you born? I was born in Erunmu, a community in the Egbeda Local Government Area under Ibadan. I was born exactly on January 11, 1931. How was your birth recorded since many were not educated that time? One of my brothers recorded it.…

Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN on Saturday denied his involvement in the raid by security operatives on the house of Supreme Court Justice, Mary Peter-Odili, on Friday evening. Malami in a statement by his media aide, Dr Umar Gwandu, said he “was not in any way connected with the fabrications and concocted lies linking him to the ensued imbroglio relating to news stories about the residence of a Justice of the Supreme Court; Justice Mary Odili”. He said the clarification to debunk the mischievous publication became imperative in view of the…

An Abuja Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Wuse Zone 6, has accused the Federal Government of misleading it to issue a search warrant against a Justice of the Supreme Court, Mary Odili. Justice Odili is currently the second most senior jurist of the apex court, after the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Ibrahim Muhammad. Her home in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, situated at No. 9, Imo Street, Maitama, was on Friday, besieged by security operatives who claimed their action was based on a valid court order. However, a few hours after the order was issued, the Chief Magistrate…

A Chief Magistrates’ Court has revoked a search warrant granted to the Joint Panel Recovery unit of the Federal Ministry of Justice to search the home of Supreme Court Justice Mary Odili. The panel, which comprises the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Nigeria Police Force and the Ministry of Justice, had obtained a search warrant from the magistrates’ court after a whistleblower, Aliyu Umar, claimed to have observed illegal activities going on at No. 9, Imo Street, Maitama, Abuja. Umar’s affidavit dated October 13, 2021, read in part, “I have observed some illegal activities going on in those houses…

Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Professor Bolaji Owasanoye disclosed that the Agency had successfully recovered 301 houses from two public officers in the nation’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The revelation came at the inauguration of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Investigation of the Operations of Real Estate Developers on Thursday. The ICPC chairman said that while 241 buildings were recovered from one of the suspects at different locations within the FCT, the remaining 60 were recovered on a large expanse of land at another location. Prof Owasanoye,…

The Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division, on Friday, dismissed a suit by the suspended national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, aimed at stopping the party’s convention scheduled to hold on Saturday and Sunday. The court gave the PDP leave to proceed with the elective national convention as scheduled. The panel of three judges led by Haruna Tsammani found no merit in Mr Secondus’ appeal, saying he voluntarily relinquished his office since he did not challenge his removal at ward and local government levels. “By the result of this decision, the 6th Respondent (PDP) is empowered on…

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Simon Asamber Lough has made history by becoming the first Nigerian Police Officer to have earned the prestigious title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SANs. ASP Lough, an indigene of Benue State is among 72 distinguished lawyers named as SANs by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee for the 2021 award of the rank. Together with the judiciary, civil services and the military, the police constitute one of the key institutions of a modern state. In particular, the origins, development and role of the police have not only prevented, detected and crime, they have also…

Leading professional services firm, PwC, has questioned the recent ruling of the Tax Appeal Tribunal, TAT, ordering MultiChoice Nigeria to deposit N900billion, half of the N1.8trillion the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, said the company was owing in taxes, before the continuation of an appeal filed by the pay television service providers. In an analysis of the ruling contained in its PwC Tax Alert posted on its website on Wednesday, the firm, stated the TAT did not refer to any of the three conditions necessary for the issuance of an order to compel payment of N900billion, but focused on the…