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DRAFT AGREEMENT FOR LASTING PEACE THROUGH A PERMANENT CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA AND THE TIGRAY PEOPLE’S LIBERATION FRONT (TPLF) PREAMBLE Agreeing to peacefully resolve the violent conflict that erupted on November 3, 2020, in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia in a manner consistent with the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Recognizing the destructive consequence of the conflict between the two Parties on human lives and livelihoods; Affirming that political problems can only be sustainably resolved through political means; Reiterating the Parties’ commitment to the African Union’s Agenda of Silencing the Guns by…

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has announced the opening of its first office in Lagos, Nigeria. Disclosing this in a statement on Wednesday, the company said the new office was part of its support for the growing number of customers and partners in Nigeria. AWS is a subsidiary of Amazon, an American e-commerce company, that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. The development is Amazon’s latest investment in Africa, and it comes five years after its first office was opened in Johannesburg in 2017. The e-commerce company said the…

For the second day in a row, activities at the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos are crippled following a power blackout. Our correspondent reports that the court has been in darkness since Wednesday morning following the non-supply of electricity to the facility. Some cases slated for hearing Wednesday and Thursday, could not go on as the atmosphere was inconducive for some judges. Despite the poor lighting nevertheless, some judges, court officials, lawyers and litigants carried on proceedings. However, most of the judges and lawyers took off their wigs and gowns – compulsory courtroom attire – during proceedings, because of…

The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Terhemba Tsoho has constituted a special task force of Judges to swiftly hear and determine all Pre-election cases before it. This was contained in a Press release signed by Assistant Director Information, Catherine Oby Christopher today Tuesday November 2, 2022. According to the Chief Judge, the move became necessary so as to designate a team of Judges to rid the court of large volume of pre-election suits that have flooded it. According to the circular, Judges who are members of the Task Force will suspend all regular cases in their…

On May 31, 2022, the President of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) issued a practice direction known as “NICN filing of Applications/Motions in Trade Union Matters and Marking of Exhibits Practice Direction No.1, 2022.” (The Practice Direction). The Practice Direction applies to all causes and matters before the Court and became effective on June 13, 2022. In the coming months and years, issues addressed in the Practice Direction are bound to come up for adjudication. This article is basically a review of the provisions of the Practice Direction. The work finds that paragraph 3(1) of the Practice Direction…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In March 2017, columnist, Eric Teniola, began his article tracing the history of appointments to the Nigerian Supreme Court with the following lines: “[c]risis is not new to the Supreme Court in Nigeria. From inception, there has always been one crisis or the other in that court.” That crisis of appointment has often been accompanied by a crisis of retention and mortality. When Stafford Foster Sutton retired as the last foreign Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), the government appointed an Egba prince, Adetokunbo Ademola, to succeed him as the on 1 April 1958. 14 months later,…

An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Friday fixed 6th December for the trial of the former Attorney-General of Lagos State, Olasupo Shasore, charged with corrupt offers to public officers. Mr Shasore, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, served as the Attorney-General of Lagos State and the Commissioner for Justice during the tenure of Babatunde Fashola as the governor. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charged the embattled senior lawyer with a two-count charge bordering on corrupt offers to public officers. The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge. Following his not-guilty plea,…

President Muhammadu Buhari has conferred Nigeria Excellence Award in Public Service (NEAPS) on 44 prominent Nigerians. NEAPS was set up to recognise excellence in leadership, service, or humanitarianism. To be eligible, the recipient must be a public official or a private citizen excelling consistently in a given sphere of influence, in good character standing and must also be at the forefront of service and innovation. The 2022 recipients include former President Goodluck Jonathan; Nyesom Wike, Rivers state governor; and Buba Marwa, chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Others are Senate President Ahmad Lawan; Femi Gbajabiamila, the speaker…

The supreme court has affirmed the nomination of Sherrif Oborevwori as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta state. Delivering judgment on Friday, a five-member panel of the apex court, led by Amina Augie, upheld the decision of the Abuja court of appeal. During the PDP primary in May, Oborevwori polled 590 votes to beat David Edevbie, the commissioner for finance during the James Ibori administration, who polled 113 votes. Oborevwori, the speaker of Delta state house of assembly, is the preferred candidate of Ifeanyi Okowa, the incumbent governor, while James Ibori, a former governor, is…

Nigeria’s local currency unit is set to weaken further next year as its current exchange rate to the dollar is well above fair value, the Bank of America (BofA) has said. BofA economist, Tatonga Rusike, in a note to clients yesterday said the forecast based on three indicators – the widely-used black-market rate, the central bank’s real effective exchange rate, and “our own currency fair value analysis” – show that the naira is 20 per cent overvalued. “We see scope for it to weaken by an equivalent amount over the next six-nine months, taking it to as high as N520…