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Tech giant Google has announced a new educational initiative offering university students across six African countries free access to its premium AI Pro package for one year. The offer is targeting students 18 years and above in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, and will run from 7 October through 9 December 2025. The AI Pro tools will remain valid for 12 months after activation. Google made this known on its Google Gemini website, where it details the benefits of the AI free service to students. The service allows students to use the tools for research, creative projects…

In a pivotal victory for due process, the legal career of Idris K. Thany, Esq., remains fully intact after the High Court of Lagos State ruled on Monday, October 6, 2025, that his appeal against the Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) direction automatically operates as a stay of execution. ​The ruling, delivered by Hon. Justice I.O. Akinkugbe (Mrs.) at the Ikorodu Judicial Division, decisively settled the question of whether Mr. Thany could continue his professional practice following the LPDC’s direction imposing a two-year suspension on September 15, 2025. ​The Court’s Definitive Stance ​The issue arose during proceedings in the case…

The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) of the Body of Benchers has suspended Cyprian Obiora Ifeanyi Agwuna, Esq., from legal practice for two years after finding him guilty of infamous conduct for using insulting and disrespectful language against a sitting magistrate in Anambra State. The LPDC, sitting in Abuja, delivered its Final Direction on February 20, 2024, in Complaint No. BB/LPDC/290/2020, between Peter Okoye Nwankwo (Applicant) and C. O. Agwuna, Esq. (Respondent). The Committee, presided over by Ahmed Mustapha Goniri, Esq. (Life Bencher), also comprised Hon. Justice Aisha Bashir Aliyu (Chief Judge of Nasarawa State), Hon. Justice Halima I. Abdulmalik…

The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) of the Body of Benchers has found Mr. Michael Olalekan Olawoyin, Esq., a Lagos-based lawyer, guilty of infamous conduct in professional respect and consequently suspended him from legal practice for five years. The Committee also directed him to refund the sum of ₦13,270,000 to his client, Mr. Emmanuel Oyedele Oyekunle, within 30 days. The final direction, delivered on January 20, 2025, by Fidelis Mnyim, Esq., Acting Attorney-General of Benue State, on behalf of the Committee, followed a detailed hearing into case number BB/LPDC/461/2021, which alleged that Mr. Olawoyin fraudulently sold a property to the…

A Los Angeles jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $966 million to the family of Mae Moore, a California woman who died from mesothelioma, after finding that the company’s talc-based baby powder contributed to her illness. Moore, who passed away in 2021 at the age of 88, had sued J&J the same year, claiming its baby powder contained asbestos fibers that caused her rare and deadly cancer. The jury’s verdict, delivered late Monday, included $16 million in compensatory damages and a staggering $950 million in punitive damages, according to court filings. The award could, however, be reduced on…

Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC), announcing the signing of an Executive Order that makes health insurance mandatory for all residents of the state. Eko Hot Blog reports that the governor made this known during the maiden edition of the Eko Health Convention 2025, organised by the Lagos State Ministry of Health, held at Jewel Aeida, Lekki. The event had the theme, “Lagos Health: Driving Innovation, Strengthening Systems, Leading Change.” Represented by his deputy, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, Sanwo-Olu explained that the new order aligns with the National…

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday adjourned further proceedings in the terrorism trial against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to October 16. The adjournment followed the inability of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to conclude and submit its report on Kanu’s health status, as directed by the court. Trial Justice James Omotosho had on September 26 ordered the NMA, the umbrella body of medical practitioners in Nigeria, to constitute a team of experts to assess the defendant’s health. The directive came after the court dismissed a no-case submission filed by…

By Layi Babatunde, SAN; FCTI Over the years, it has been generally accepted that a purchase receipt issued to a purchaser of land is not a Registrable instrument, but may be evidence of an acknowledgement of money. However, many Land buyers are being issued receipts daily on the purchase of land. It is not being said that it is out of place to issue receipts to persons who pay for a piece or parcel of land or other landed property. The caution is that persons issued with such receipts need to do more than hold on to such receipts if…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has accepted the resignation of Mr Geoffrey Uche Nnaji, Nigeria’s Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, following allegations reportedly levelled against him. Nnaji, who was appointed in August 2023, tendered his resignation in a letter to the President on Tuesday, expressing gratitude for the opportunity to serve the nation. In his letter, the former minister claimed he had become the target of “persistent blackmail and political attacks” orchestrated by opponents seeking to tarnish his reputation. “I thank Your Excellency for the privilege to serve and contribute to the administration’s vision of a more innovative and technologically…

Noisy TV commercials were banned in California on Monday, with a new law that demands pitchmen turn the volume down. Viewers in the United States have long complained that advertisements can be much louder than the program they are streaming. One minute they are engrossed in a peaceful nature documentary, and the next they are scrabbling for the remote to quieten a man shouting about a new treatment for his flatulence. Now, a new law in America’s most populous state says commercials cannot be any louder than the content they interrupt. “We heard Californians loud and clear, and what’s clear…