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In June last year, hackers took control of an email account belonging to an employee at heavy machinery manufacturer Mountain Crane. The hackers used their access to send an invoice totaling $1.75 million to one of the company’s customers, wind turbine giant Nordex, which then unwittingly paid the hackers over $800,000. A month later, Nordex realized it had been defrauded and contacted the FBI. The fraud, outlined in a search warrant obtained by Forbes, was a classic case of what’s known as Business Email Compromise (BEC), one of the most common and financially devastating cyberattacks, costing the U.S. $2.7 billion…

In Dark Hearts, Layi Babatunde, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who has been in legal practice for close to four decades, brings into the open, in simple prose, what would otherwise have been buried in Law Reports and other legal literature. He delivers a chilling account, which would make you ponder, on the increasing loss of humanity amongst humans using a collection of short stories. Evidently aided by the legal luminary’s well-known interest in scholarship and incursion into law reporting through the Supreme Court Reports (S.C Reports) which he has edited and published for decades, Dark Hearts is a collection…

Of the controversies and flip-flops that have trailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s numerous appointments since he assumed office barely five months ago, possibly the most dangerous and consequential to Nigeria’s democracy was the recent nomination and then confirmation by the Senate of at least two known political figures as Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). These appointments violate and negate the principles of fairness and impartiality, alongside extant laws that seek to protect the sanctity of Nigeria’s elections and democracy, such as the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act. It is particularly disturbing that the…

The Plateau State High Court, presided over by Justice D.G. Fombing, yesterday remanded three suspected organ harvesters, Noah Kekere, Dr. Phillip Dachung, and Mr. Yusuf Abdullahi, at the Jos Correctional Centre. The suspects were remanded after their arraignment at State High Court 9 by the state Director of Public Prosecutor, Barrister David Williams. Mr. Kekere was arrested by the police following the alleged removal of the right kidney of one Mrs. Kehinde Kamaru during an appendix operation at his Murna Clinic and Maternity, located in Yanshanu community of Jos North local government area of the state. In a suit no.…

Kwara State Government has urged medical practitioners in the state to comply with the Gunshot Act of 2017. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Amina El-Imam, made the call in a statement issued by Mr Falade Gbenga, the Press Secretary of the ministry. El-Imam explained that the Gunshot Act of 2017 gave legal coverage for the treatment of persons who sustained gunshot injuries without any hindrance whatsoever. She stated that the plea became necessary to forestall unnecessary loss of lives from injuries sustained in agonising torments associated with gunshots. The commissioner instructed that correspondence from the Inspector General of Police on…

The Council of Legal Education and Nigeria Law School have established criteria for call-to-bar screening, a vital step for law graduates. Applicants must provide the following: Evidence of N30,000 payment to the Body of Benchers for Call to Bar processing into the designated Zenith Bank account Proof of N10,000 payment into the Council of Legal Education account for 50th Anniversary Alumni fee Original and photocopies of the LL.B. certificate Original and photocopy of Nigerian Law School ID card Printout of candidate’s Nigerian Law School result The call-to-bar screening enables the Nigerian Law School to verify applicants have completed the requisite…

The Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee was set up by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to review and advise on reforms to shape Nigeria’s fiscal policy and tax system. The Committee’s terms of reference covers Fiscal Governance; Revenue Transformation and Economic Growth Facilitation. The work of the committee is further divided into 3 phases, being Quick Wins within 30 days; Critical Reforms within 6 months and Implementation within 1 year. The committee has presented its reports to the President with key recommendations to address critical economic issues ranging from exchange rate management, impact of fuel subsidy removal, moderation of…

The Ebonyi high court has recorded a total of 9,218 filed cases between 2022 and 2023, the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Elvis Ngene, has said. Ngene made the disclosure during the 2023/2024 legal year celebration on Friday in Abakaliki. The Chief Judge also said that 15,990 cases were pending in the High court. According to him, in the year under review, the number of cases pending before the period was 15,990; 9,218 cases were filed, while the cases disposed were 11,289. “At the magistrate court, a total of 4,961 cases were filed while 3,820 cases were disposed of,…

Retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Musa Dattijo Muhammad has raised a concern over the existing structure of the judiciary and the concentration of power within the office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). In his retirement speech on Friday in Abuja, Justice Muhammad highlighted that the CJN serves as the Chairman of multiple significant bodies, including the National Judicial Council (NJC), the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC), the National Judicial Institute (NJI), and the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC), which appoints Senior Advocates of Nigeria. According to him, the oversight functions of these bodies should not…

There appears to be a crack at the Supreme Court, barely 24 hours after it validated the election of President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. A retiring justice of the court, Musa Dattijo Muhammad, who reportedly pulled out from the seven-man panel that dismissed all the appeals that sought to remove President Tinubu from office, has accused the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, of abusing the powers of his office. Justice Muhammad, who spent 47 years in active judicial service, bowed out of the apex court bench on Friday, having clocked the 70…