Adekunle Edu is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, and former Welfare Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. He currently serves as the head of NBA representatives at the General Council of the Bar. In this interview, he discusses misrepresentation of court judgments, police welfare, constitutional amendments, abuse of the Cybercrime Act, and other burning issues in Nigeria.

Lagos State has stepped up its drive for financial self-reliance with a bold initiative to streamline tax and revenue dispute resolution.

In Nigeria’s already encumbered judicial system, where litigants wait years for resolution, a troubling trend persists: cases being derailed at critical stages due to the reassignment of judges—often requiring trials to begin afresh after years of proceedings.

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN The first part of this article which was published in March 2025 traced the foundation of human rights enforcement, in making a case for judicial activism from the Bench for the protection and enforcement of fundamental rights. In the previous regime of the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules, 1979, two major […]

In what may be described as a historic legislative intervention aimed at reimagining traditional governance, the Lagos State Government is set to repeal and re-enact the Obas and Chiefs Law.