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The courts’ annual long vacation
Fellow Nigerians, please permit me to do a little house cleaning, through this medium, this week. I will like to talk to the Honourable Judges of the Bench and my learned gentlemen of the Bar. I do hope that I have your consent in this…
A distorted restructuring?
For some months now, there seems to be a drift towards the restructuring of certain aspects of governance in Nigeria. In times past, there had been a lot of clamour from Nigerians, for the All Progressive Congress (APC)-led government to…
Zamfara and the price of impunity
ON Friday, May 24, 2019, the Supreme Court put a final death kernel on the fate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in all the National Assembly, gubernatorial and state House of Assembly elections in Zamfara State. In one fell swoop,…
Attaining legislative autonomy and judicial independence
There seems to be a silent ‘revolution’ going on in the land, which many have not noticed. There is a particularly interesting and commendable development of the Muhammadu Buhari government that we are not talking about as we should. It is…
Wanted: Law of employment in Nigeria (2)
On May 1, 2019, workers all over the country trooped out to observe the Workers’ Day, being a day set aside to celebrate workers and highlight the challenges they face in their various vocations. This piece was, indeed, inspired by the…
Wanted: Law of employment in Nigeria (1)
ACCORDING to the learned authors of Black’s Law Dictionary, “Employment” is the act of employing, the state of being employed, or work for which one has been hired and is being paid by an employer. In simple terms, therefore, employment…
Judiciary’s state of emergency
The judiciary is established under Section 6 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended. The Constitution proceeds to state the function of the judiciary as: to “extend to all matters between persons, or…
Administration of criminal justice (3)
WE have so far examined the innovations that the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015 has brought to our criminal justice administration generally and how far the system has fared thereby. It is now time to take a holistic…
Thumbs down for INEC
YEAR in year out, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducts elections into various offices in Nigeria, either through the main general election, the by-elections or other supplementary elections. INEC has been involved…
The season of dilemma
BY law, a citizen who is 18 years of age is entitled to vote and be voted for in any election. Indeed, the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights in its Article 13 prescribes that “every citizen shall have the right to participate…