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A 32-year-old carpenter, Onyekachi Agu, poured acid on his ex-girlfriend and his rival was on Wednesday sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja. Justice Oyindamola Ogala handed down the jail term after finding Agu guilty of a count of causing grievous bodily harm to two persons, Aishat Adefarati and Mansur Ahmed in 2020. When Agu was arraigned, the state prosecutor, Uju Uwangaze, told the court that he committed the offence on July 3, 2020, at Gangare Hotel, Mile 12, in Lagos. She said Agu traced the victims to the hotel and poured acid…

A whistleblower from the legal recruiting firm Major, Lindsey & Africa says Jane Sullivan Roberts, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, earned $10.3 million in commissions over seven years from her job as a headhunter at the company, where she placed attorneys with law firms—including at least one that argued a case before the Supreme Court after the placement was made. Sullivan Roberts earned the money between 2007 and 2014, having taken a job with the company two years after her husband was confirmed to the Supreme Court, according to a report out Friday from Business…

A 13-year-old American boy became a hero by managing to safely stop a school bus carrying dozens of kids when the driver lost consciousness. The drama unfolded Wednesday in the northern state of Michigan, when a teenager named Dillon Reeves got up and grabbed the steering when he saw the driver had fainted, and brought the vehicle to a halt in the middle of the road using the hand brake, school district superintendent Robert Livernois said. The bus was carrying nearly 70 students from Lois E. Carter Middle School in the town of Warren when the driver lost consciousness, as…

A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Okey Wali SAN has been kidnapped by unknown persons in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. According to the NBA President, Yakubu Maikyau SAN, Wali was abducted in the early hours of Monday, April 17, 2023 after his convoy was allegedly attacked along East-West Road, in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. This is the second time that the former NBA president will be abducted. He was kidnapped on October 11, 2014. He was released on October 24, having spent 13 days in the den of his kidnappers. Maikyau in a…

Background Ardova Plc (“Ardova” or “the Company”) in the normal course of its business as a petroleum marketing and distribution company incurs product losses and shrinkages. The Company typically expenses these losses in its Statement of Profit or Loss and takes a tax deduction on the entire sums expensed. The Company filed its 2014 and 2015 financial year tax returns reflecting the above deductions. The Company thereafter filed amended tax returns adjusting the capital allowances claimed to percentages lower than the maximum threshold of 66 ⅔% as prescribed by the 2nd Schedule of the Companies Income Tax Act (CITA). The…

The commission, PSC, has said that anyone with evidence on the allegation showing that some officers of the commission and the Nigerian Police Force, collected bribes of $10,000 to facilitate promotions of police personnel, should make such evidence available to a panel of investigation it has set up on the issue. The PSC also vowed that anyone found culpable of partaking in the act will be dealt with in line with the laws of the land. It urged officers, aggrieved over issues of promotion to avail themselves of the investigative panel and come forward with proof that could aid the…

Following the controversies that have trailed the movie, “Gangs of Lagos”, since it was released on Amazon Prime Video, the National Film and Video Censors Board, NFVCB, has explained why they cannot ban it. The Executive Director and CEO of the regulatory body, Alhaji Adedayo Thomas, said the board can’t take any action against the movie for now. According to him, the NFVCB has no legal backing to regulate what is being exhibited on the online platform. He regretted that regulating online platform poses a lot of difficulties since it’s not part of the mandate of the Board. “Have you…

Below is a Keynote address by his Excellency, the Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON, at ‘an afternoon of tributes for departed media leaders’ organized by the Nigerian Press Organisation (NPO) and the Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria (BON), held on Friday, May 21, 2021 at the MUSON Centre, Lagos. Let me begin by stating how privileged I am to be here at this unique gathering to honour the memory of recently departed leaders in the media. The roll call of these leading lights that have left us is a truly impressive one and it can…

His concern always is how to put a smile in the faces of others. His humility, humour and humanity is not only awesome but exceptional. Today I am remembering my leader Prince Bola Ajibola and the great memories we shared. He was one of a kind and a father. There are many days that I think of him and beam a smile. Prince Bolasodun Adesumbo Ajibola, SAN, KBE, CFR was born on the 22nd of March, 1934 (89 years old) in Owu, near Abeokuta, Ogun State to the Owu royal family of Oba Abdul-Salam Ajibola Gbadela (II), the traditional ruler…

US “fair use” clause has been adopted to assist Nigerian courts in determining whether a given unauthorized use of a work protected by copyright would qualify as “fair dealing”. Unlike the US “fair use” clause, there are no consumptive uses that are listed as permissible purposes. New legal remedies are introduced to assist rights holders with the enforcement of their rights in the online environment, some of which may be relied on to compel Internet Service Providers to block user access to infringing content. This is an important development in the fight against content piracy, which has been a major…