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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner and chief executive officer of Twitter, says he is pursuing a legal action against Jack Sweeney, the owner of an account on the microblogging platform dedicated to tracking his private jet. Twitter already suspended the account on Wednesday. Musk, in a tweet on Thursday, said he is also suing organisations that supported harm against his family. “Last night, car carrying lil X (Musk’s son) in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving and climbed onto hood,” he tweeted. “Legal action is being taken against Sweeney and…

The civil society organisation and anti-corruption network also alleged that “insecurity and executive impunity” by governors may mar the conduct and outcome of the election. Yiaga Africa stated this in its pre-election observation report released on Friday. Signed by its Executive Director, Samson Itodo, the group explained that a total of 822 long-term observers deployed to monitor pre-election events in the 774 local government areas of the country made the finding known through its Watching The Vote (WTV) project. “Specially, key findings in Yiaga Africa pre-election report include; Voter Inducements & Purchase of Permanent Voters Cards through monetary and other…

Governor David Umahi on Thursday ordered the arrest of a caterer who allegedly served low-quality food during a Christmas party for widows and the aged in Ebonyi. Mr Umahi said the police would follow due process in investigating the cook for her to return the money given to her to prepare the food. “We are, therefore, going to repeat this party as we should celebrate our fathers and mothers well. The Bible enjoins us to honour our fathers and mothers so that our days would be long on earth,” said the Ebonyi governor. “I want my days to be long…

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, recently bemoaned how the Supreme Court is grappling with 6,884 delayed cases. There is a shortfall of justices in the Supreme Court, with only 13 left on the bench despite that the constitution provided 21, which has widened the gap in the ratio of judges to litigants in Nigeria. According to the National Judicial Council (NJC), the judiciary’s regulatory body, only 1,179 judges are available for the courts across the country with an estimated population of 218 million people. As a result, many cases drag in the courts with some files…

The case was not glamorous, and the clients — 16 homeless people evicted from an encampment — didn’t have money for a retainer, but that was how things went at Chima Anyanwu’s one-man law practice in Koreatown. He agreed to represent the group in 2016, and later that year secured a settlement of $64,000 from the city of South Gate. Anyanwu paid each client what they were owed, even accompanying one desperate woman to a bank branch on a Saturday to help her cash her settlement check, court records show. Then the State Bar of California got involved. After receiving…

For quite a few awaiting trial inmates in Lagos State, it will be yet another Christmas in prison custody while some will have their first experience celebrating Christmas and possibly the New Year at the correctional facilities. It is interesting to note that issues with most awaiting trial inmates and the consequent congestion in correctional facilities is the doing of the Judiciary. Yes, the Judiciary is the only institution that has the power to commit anyone to prison custody (whether legitimately or otherwise). Recently, the Duty Solicitors Network in collaboration with the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria, the NBA Branches…

Eligible teachers in Nigeria can apply to work in schools in the United Kingdom, courtesy of a programme by the department of education. To stand a chance, applicants will be required to have qualified teacher status (QTS), a qualification awarded by the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA). The UK’s department of education listed Nigeria among the predominantly African and Asian countries that are now eligible to apply. Teachers in Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Singapore, South Africa, Ukraine and Zimbabwe as well as Nigeria are expected to start applying by February 2023. “This change is part of the launch of a…

The children of late Mrs Kudirat Abiola have dragged the Muhmmadu Buhari administration of Nigeria to the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over the unlawful killing of their mother. Khafila Abiola, Moriam Abiola, and Hadi Abiola are suing for themselves and on behalf of the other children of Kudirat. In the suit number ECW/CCJ/APP/62/2022 filed on their behalf by their Counsel Femi Falana, SAN. In the suit, the children are challenging the “violation of the fundamental human rights to life and dignity of human person of the late Mrs Abiola.” The Plaintiffs are arguing that, “the failure or refusal…

PROTOCOLS 1. I am delighted to stand before this honourable Court today, to be part of this august gathering – the 2022/2023 Legal Year Ceremony of this Court. I thank My Lord, the Honourable, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, the Honourable Justice John Terhemba Tsoho, OFR, FICMC, FIIP, for the invitation extended to me to participate and for the privilege of addressing this special Court session. 2. I am aware that Your Lordships had since resumed judicial activities, but as this is the formal ceremony to mark the beginning of the new legal year, may I, respectfully,…

The National Universities Commission has decried what it described as the desperation of some academics to become professors. In a bulletin obtained on Monday in Abuja, the NUC also noted that two high-powered committees had been set up to check the excesses in the system. According to the bulletin, the committees inaugurated by the commission’s Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, include the Committee on the Review of Submission on the Procedures, Criteria and Records of Professorial Promotion by some Non-Degree Awarding Institutions in Nigeria as well as the Committee on the Development of Guidelines for Mentoring New Universities. The bulletin…