In less than a week, the 61st edition of the Nigerian Bar Association’s Annual General Conference is expected to bring its host city, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital to life, as legal luminaries, accomplished professionals and thought leaders from various walks of life gather to ponder on the Conference theme: Taking the Lead.'
As at today in Nigeria, there is no enabling substantive legislation that makes covid-19 vaccination compulsory. In the absence of any such law, any policy statement from the government that lacks legal backing, especially when it is meant to take away guaranteed rights, is illogical, unlawful, null and void. The government is advised to follow due processes and enact a law that will pass through all the legislative steps that has the right to derogate on the rights already guaranteed, and it must be a reasonable law permissible in a democratic society.
In the legal world, one concept that surfaces more often than not, especially during trial, is the concept of re-examination. It is also a silent but salient tool in the hands of trial lawyers in putting forward the cases of their clients through witness fielded at the trial.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has grilled a former Kano Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso in connection with alleged mismanagement of N10billion pension cash.
If it were possible to turn back the hands of the clock, Amos Kunde would be the happiest man on earth. He would do anything to reverse an adventure that culminated in getting his twin sister Juliana pregnant twice.
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has distanced itself from a statement alleged that it had directed a to sit-at-home on October 18, 19 and 21 for its leader, and one year anniversary of #EndSARS protest.
As a former Assistant National Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), I wish to use this medium to express my profound gratitude to the Ikechukwu Uwanna-led executive committee of the NBA Lagos Branch (deservedly known as the Premier Bar, not just in Nigeria, but in all of Africa) for their gesture of magnanimity on the invitation and reception I received during the Exco's last monthly meeting held at the Lagos campus of the Nigerian Law School.
