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The attention of the Nigerian Bar Association (“NBA”) has been drawn to a directive credited to the Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (“CAC”) to the effect that accredited agents of the CAC, including lawyers, are to revalidate their status as agents with the CAC and pay the sum of Ten Thousand Naira (₦10,000), failing which the defaulting agents may be unable to access the CAC’s Portal. Since the news broke out, the NBA has been engaging with the CAC on this subject. The ostensible reason given by the CAC for this directive is to checkmate the spate of proxy…

To understand the new politics stance and other pro nationals of recent times, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. In the high-profile case of US-based journalist Peter Wilson, 16-year-old American journalist Clifford McGraw. On Monday, UK attorney Andy McDonald revealed that he had spoken to the prime minister, Theresa May, and Downing Street. Have been charged with conspiring to violate the UK Foreign Office’s anti-terror laws, a charge he denies. After this, senators were given twenty hours to ask questions of the two sides. Anthony Zucker: Why there could be a speedy…

The Corporate Affairs Commission has canceled the unlimited accreditation granted to Lawyers, Chartered Accountants and Chartered Secretaries to transact business with the Commission on behalf their clients. The commission has replaced the unlimited accreditation with yearly renewable accreditation at the cost of Ten Thousand Naira for individuals and Fifty Thousand Naira for firms. A Guideline from the Commission stated that all agents accredited with the commission have until the 31st day of March 2021 to renew their accreditation in line with the new directive of the commission. A source quoted the Registrar-General of the commission, Garba Abubakar, as saying that…

To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Diana saves Steve Trevor who has crashed on Themyscira. He warns her of the great war, World War I, raging across the globe. Wonder Woman…

Chief Justice of Nigeria(CJN), Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammadu has charged the African Bar Association (AFBA) to work hard for the unification of African judiciary and mutual legal development. The CJN equally tasked AFBA to ensure that African lawyers compete favourably amongst the best of lawyers around the world. The CJN who spoke while receiving the leadership of AFBA led by its President, Mr Hannibal Uwaifo on a courtesy visit in Abuja Monday sought good conduct from the bar men, saying African bench cannot be clean if its origin is filthy. He also canvassed that the lawyers be made the best…

The United Kingdom Supreme Court has ruled that polluted Nigerian communities can sue oil giant Shell in English Courts. According to BBC Africa, this decision overturns a previous Appeal Court ruling and represents a victory after a five-year legal battle. The Niger Delta communities say decades of pollution have severely impacted their lives, health, and the local environment. Shell in its defence argued that it was only a holding company for a firm that should be judged under Nigerian law. The Supreme Court, therefore, ruled that the cases brought by the Bille community and the Ogale people of Ogoniland against…

Former Lagos Governor, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, is dead. He died on Thursday morning in Lagos at 91. He was a former journalist who became governor of Lagos State from 1979 to 1983. He later emerged Minister of Works under the Sani Abacha military regime (1993–98).

FELLOW Citizens of Lagos State, On Saturday, 28th, July 1979, you elected me, by 559,070 votes to 126,805, the first Executive Governor of Lagos State. Today, as a result of that election, the Chief Judge of this State, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of Nigeria, has invested me with the office. This is an inestimable honour of which I am very conscious. It is a call to Service I take very seriously in all humility. And I want to assure you that I shall spare no effort to justify the confidence which you, the good people of…

During an event on Tuesday, President of the United Republic of Tanzania John Magufuli appealed to the country’s judiciary to make court judgments more accessible to the people of Tanzania by publishing them in Kiswahili (also known as Swahili) rather than English. Magufuli argued that writing court judgments in English rather than Kiswahili “deprive citizens of their rights” and creates additional charges, such as paying for an interpretation. Magufuli called Kiswahili “one of the largest languages in the world” and called for the development of a strategy to interpret old laws and create new laws in Swahili. Magufuli made this…

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed another suit filed by the Sani Abacha family seeking access to the looted funds which they and the late Nigerian dictator stashed in foreign bank accounts. PREMIUM TIMES reports that the suit filed in the name of Ali Abacha, was dismissed by a five-man panel led by Sylvester Ngwuta for lacking in merit. Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, a Justice of the Supreme Court, who prepared the lead judgment, held that Mr Ali Abacha’s case was not different from that of a son of the ex-dictator, Abba Mohammed Sani, which was earlier dismissed by the apex court…