Lawyers have commended the Nigerian Bar Associatioon, NBA, for launching its website and portal.

The family of Oduwole of Ishashi, Ibeshe, Ikorodu area of Lagos state has challenged one Mr Bashiru Olaide, who claimed to be the owner of a parcel of land at Megun village, which has become a subject of litigation in recent times.

Mr Norrison Quakers SAN is a member, National Committee on Reform of Administration of Criminal Justice in Nigeria, whose litigation ability also earned him the position of Secretary , National Working Committee on the Review of Nigeria Law of Evidence.

I was just going through Vanguard daily and I saw your column which I cherish. I am a civil servant I got married in 1992. My husband and I lived happily until one day when his elder brother died. After the burial, my husband told me that he is going to marry the widow because it was his right.

ON February, 28, 2013, Labour Vanguard published a piece about the takeover of trade unions by bourgeois labour leaders. At the end of the report, Labour Vanguard promised to publish an interview with Comrade Sylvester Ejiofoh, immediate past General Secretary General Secretary of Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees, AUPCTRE. Here is the interview for your reading delight.

Awa Kalu commands commendable followership both as a lawyer, a law teacher, a jurist, an administrator and a technocrat. This probably is because of his forthrightness, sense of humour, humility, candour, loyalty to friends and unique style of leadership which is rooted in competence, genuine concern for others, admirable character and team spirit. He preaches and practices teamwork and collectivist aspiration for excellence.

The 18th century English Ballad, George Bernard Shaw wrote; ‘Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I get to hold for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before turning it over to future generations’.

Following last week demand by the Sultan of Sokoto, A lhaji Muhammed Abubakar, and some Northern leaders, that amnesty be granted to armed groups in the north, some Senior Advocates of Nigeria and lawyer, who spoke with Vanguard Law and Human Rights on the issue, said the daily orgy of violence and killings by armed groups makes nonsense of amnesty, if granted.

A leading law report centre and law software provider, Law Pavilion, is set to improve law reporting through a new product-Law Pavilion 6.0; a paradigm shifting technologically-driven solution strategically developed to address all user challenges and technological developments on the existing 5.0 version.

In the period since then, the popularity of the IED has grown exponentially almost in inverse proportion to the capacity of the country’s legal institutions to deal with it.

National Executive Committee, NEC, of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to set up a high-powered Presidential Judicial Commission of Enquiry to investigate the cause of death, source and identity of the floating corpses discovered on Ezu River between Anambra and Enugu States.

Professor Bem Angwe is the Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission, NHRC. In this interview, he spoke on the scope of the commission’s powers, the efforts of the commission in promoting, protecting and defending the rights of Nigerians and other national issues. Excerpt:

Professor Bem Angwe is the Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission, NHRC. In this interview, he spoke on the scope of the commission’s powers, the efforts of the commission in promoting, protecting and defending the rights of Nigerians and other national issues.

This book is of intellectual fascination and practical importance. The book further reviews the economic, political and legal basis for the deregulation exercise in Nigeria. The chapters in the book reflect the banking sector, Electricity Sector, Broadcasting as well as other essential utilities.

During its first year the project reduced the number of pretrial detainees by 88.4 percent in Imo; 86.2 percent in Kaduna; 30.5 percent in Ondo; and 61 percent in Sokoto.

They can be formed, reformed, un-formed, negotiated and re-negotiated. In the lifetime of most of us here, for instance, the Soviet Empire has collapsed into middling, hardly remarkable, entities; Yugoslavia dis-integrated into a collection of warring states and statelets; Germany evolved into one country from two; Ethiopia went the other way, becoming two countries instead of one, (indeed, Menelik II had sold Djibouti to the French about 116 years ago to finance the modernization of Addis Ababa); Sudan has similarly become two countries (in which further splintering cannot be ruled out) and the United Kingdom itself could be reduced to England and Wales in 2014 depending on the outcome of the proposed referendum on Scottish Independence.

During its first year the project reduced the number of pretrial detainees by 88.4 percent in Imo; 86.2 percent in Kaduna; 30.5 percent in Ondo; and 61 percent in Sokoto.

Obiagwu concludes this week, this article on why the human rights community must go back to the trenches.

Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police has just launched a code of conduct and professional standards for the country’s police force. The code aims to “provide all members of the Nigeria Police Force with a set of guiding principles and standards of behaviour while on or off duty.”

Nigeria’s sincere commitment to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other tropical diseases that pose threat to right to health is deficient and totally intolerable.