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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,…

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…