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The National Judicial Council (NJC) on Sunday released the list of 38 persons recommended for various judicial appointments in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, and 10 states. NJC’s Director of Information, Soji Oye, the council accepted the candidates after considering the list presented by its interview committee at its 95th meeting held on September 15 and 16, 2021, The candidates were recommended to either President Muhammadu Buhari or their respective state governors for appointment depending on the courts they are to serve. The list includes candidates recommended for appointment as the substantive Chief Judges of Edo, Kogi, Ondo, Akwa…

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has signed the Petroleum Industry Bill 2021 into law. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has directed that the Nigerian National Petroleum CompanyLimited be incorporated. He also approved the appointment of the Board and Management of the NNPC Limited with Senator Ifeanyi Ararume as Chairman. The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr Mele Kyari, was appointed Chief Executive Officer. This was contained in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, saying that the president acted in accordance…

The National Judicial Council at its 95th Meeting of 15 & 16 September 2021, considered the list of candidates presented by its Interview Committee and resolved to recommend the under-listed names of Thirty-six (36) successful candidates to their respective State Governors for appointment as Heads of Courts and other Judicial Officers in Nigeria. This was disclosed in a statement by the NJC Information Director, Soji Oye, Esq. They are as follows: 1. CHIEF JUDGE, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, KOGI STATE i) Hon. Justice Richard O. Olorunfemi 2. CHIEF JUDGE, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, EDO STATE i) Hon. Justice Joe…

Rivers State government, through its Attorney-General, has gone to the Supreme Court to set aside the decision of the Court of Appeal that ordered it to maintain status quo on the collection of Value Added Tax, VAT, pending the determination of an appeal that was lodged by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS. The State, in its nine grounds of appeal, a copy of which was sighted by Vanguard on Tuesday, is praying the apex court to order that the substantive appeal by the FIRS, marked CA/PH/282/2021, and all other processes therein, be heard and determined by a new panel…

The President of the Court of Appeal, Monica Dongban-Mensem, on Monday, appealed to the federal government for an upward review of the salaries of judges. Mrs Dongban-Mensem, who spoke at the maiden edition of the Court of Appeal’s 2021/2022 new legal year ceremony in Abuja, revealed that salaries of judicial officers had been stagnated since 2007. She lamented that the CJN who heads the judiciary earns only N279, 497 as monthly salary, while his colleagues on the Supreme Court bench go home with monthly pay of N206,425. The Appeal Court President revealed that she receives the sum of N206,425, while…

CAC  PUBLIC NOTICE COMMENCEMENT OF REGISTRATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIPS (LLPs) AND LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS (LPs) AND DEPLOYMENT OF THE REGISTRATION SOLUTIONS ON COMPANY REGISTRATION PORTAL (CRP) The Commission wishes to inform its esteemed Customers and the General Public that it has commenced the registration of Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) and Limited Partnerships (LPs). To this end, it has deployed the registration interfaces for LLPs and LPs on the Company Registration Portal (CRP). Customers and members of the General Public wishing to register LLPs and LPs may now do so on the CRP. The LLP is a partnership arrangement with legal…

 The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has ordered the suspension of Value Added Tax collection by the Rivers state. The appellate court also directed the parties to maintain position before the judgment of the lower court was delivered. A three-man panel of the appellate court led by Justice Haruna Tsammani gave the order on Friday while ruling on an application for stay of execution by the appellant’s counsel, Mahmud Magaji SAN. Recall that a federal high court in Port Harcourt had earlier ruled in favour of the Rivers State government on who has the power to collect value added…

A Kebbi state high court has vacated the order it made returning Uche Secondus as national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). On August 23, a high court in Rivers state granted an interim order restraining Secondus from parading himself as the national chairman of the party. But on August 26, Nusirat Umar, judge of a high court in Kebbi state, ordered that the execution of the previous order barring Secondus from parading himself as national chairman be suspended, pending when the suit is heard and concluded. Umar had given the order while delivering ruling in a motion ex parte brought in…

THISDAY Law Editor, Onikepo Braithwaite, and 129 other lawyers have been shortlisted by the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) for the award of the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). The names of the shortlisted candidates were contained in a public notice for advertisement in the newspapers released on Wednesday. According to the Acting Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and Secretary of the LPPC, Mrs Hajo Bello, the shortlisted candidates emerged from both the advocate filtration stages and academic pre-qualification exercise, “preparatory to the award of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria for the…

Ibrahim Muhammad, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), has asked three judges to appear before the National Judicial Council (NJC) to show cause why disciplinary action should not be taken against them for granting the conflicting ex parte orders. In recent weeks, the judges had issued conflicting orders on issues bordering on the leadership crisis affecting the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and matters relating to candidates for the Anambra governorship election scheduled for November. The CJN had issued a summons on August 30, requesting that the judges explain their recent court orders. Those summoned by the CJN are the chief judges…