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The Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Lawbreed Limited, Mrs. Adejoke Layi-Babatunde was a notable awardee at the 2021 Annual ESQ Legal Award ceremonies which lighted up the cavernous interiors of the Landmark Event Centre in Lagos, as she carted home the coveted Legal Amazon of the Year Award. NEWSWIRE Law and Events Magazine’s correspondent in Lagos reports that the applause that reverberated across the event venue as Mrs. Layi-Babatunde’s name was announced, was a testimony to the tremendous impact her organization, Lawbreed, has made in the area of legal scholarship in Nigeria, as it publishes the Judgments of Supreme Court…

As part of efforts to conform with the modern global tax administration system and ensure a just and seamless tax dispute resolution mechanism, the Minister for Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed in June this year, issued a new Tax Appeal Tribunal (Procedure) Rules, 2021. The Rules which effectively replace the 2010 Rules are intended to guide the practice and procedure for Tax Appeal Tribunal, (TAT) proceedings. The Rules are also intended to enable the Tribunal to deal justly, fairly, and expeditiously with appeals and promote the settlement of disputes among parties. Some of the highlights of the…

The Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters has announced an invitation to stakeholders and members of the General Public of Its Public Hearing scheduled to hold on Monday, 15th November, 2021. According to a notice published on several dailies signed by the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, the hearing will discuss: Legal Practitioners Act Cap, LFN 2004 (Repeal And Re-enactment) Bill, 2021 (SB.815); Legal Education (Consolidation, Etc.) Act L10, LFN 2004 (Amendment) Bill 2021 SB.820); And Legal Aid Council Act. 2011(Amendment) Bill. 1 2021 (SB.560) Time: 11:00a.m.prompt Venue Senate Conference Hall…

Falmata Abubakar, the mother of the late vicious Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, said she regretted giving birth to him because he was a tragedy to humanity. Shekau died in May 2021 after waging a deadly war against the Nigerian state that led to the death of over 100,000 thousand people, displacement of over three million people and destruction of towns, villages, schools, hospitals and other social amenities valued at over $9bn, according to data released by the state, national and international organisations. Except his village, Shekau’s reign of terror did not spare his kinsmen in Borno and Yobe states;…

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…