A construction company, Buebe Ventures Limited and its Managing Director, have sued Skye Bank Plc before a Lagos High Court, challenging the sale of a property the company used as collateral for a loan facility.

Convicted LASTMA official seeks bail pending appeal

Of all the three tiers of government and institutions that underpin our democracy, none has safeguarded Nigeria”s political system like the judiciary. As it is often said, an independent judiciary is the soul of every political system be it presidential or parliamentary.

Over the years, there have been agitations on how to stop domestic violence against children and women in Nigeria which have yielded no result. Recently however, the Lagos State House of Assembly took a giant strides by passing into law, a bill “to provide protection against Domestic Violence and for Connected Purposes.” The Law which came into force in 2007, was specifically aimed at protecting the Victims of domestic violence and it comprises19 sections.

A civil rights organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, to compel the personal physician of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua, Dr Salisu Banye, to release information on oath on the present medical condition of the President, in order to definitively decide whether he is capable of continuing to perform his public trust and constitutional responsibility as President.

Thirty years after Nigeria hosted the conference of lawyers from the Commonwealth, legal luminaries from 53 Commonwealth countries will next week converge in Abuja for the regional conference of the Commonwealth Law Association, CLA.

Plateau State has been in the news since 2001 for the wrong reasons. Following the Jos crisis on the 7th of September of that year and subsequent events that culminated in the killings at Yelwa-Shendam and the declaration of a state of emergency, Plateau has not been the same again.

The Association of Cash Managers of Nigeria (ACMAN) has expressed its readiness to transform cash handling and cash movement activities in Nigeria by using advanced security and world class facilities.

PERHAPS, if Bajide Kehinde, a 25-year-old Ondo state born graduate of school of Oceanography and Marine Research, Victoria Island, Lagos had known that a mid- afternoon call put across to him by his very good friend Adeyemi Feyijimi would turn out nightmarish, he would probably have ignored it and enjoy his sleep at his sister’s residence where he was already in bed.

Fire, according to a popular saying, is a good servant and a bad master. And when it chooses to be a bad master, there are usually tears and wailing on account of lives or property lost or both.

Standard Chartered Bank has been named Best Emerging Market Bank in Africa in Global Finance magazine’s annual awards. This is the second consecutive year that Standard Chartered Bank Africa has topped the tables with Global Finance.

Skye Bank Plc has commenced a promotion for its existing and prospective Visa card customers.
The promotion is expected to produce 10 winners who will have the opportunity of going to South Africa for the FIFA 2010 World Cup.

The Miners Association of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja commended the World Bank for extending its programme on the Sustainable Management of Mineral Resources Project.

By Henry Umoru ABUJA—THE National Chairman of Democratic Peoples’ Party, DPP, General Jeremiah Useni has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, to as a matter of urgency put in place a panel that would determine the motions to allow the Sokoto Court of Appeal deliver the gubernatorial election petition judgment. […]

Breaking news: Yar’Adua to address the National Assembly by 12noon today.

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