EFCC’s push to block payment of legal fees in foreign currency draws backlash
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — A fresh row is brewing between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and legal practitioners across the country over a renewed push to bar the use of foreign currency in settling legal fees.The anti-graft agency, on September 11, condemned the practice of lawyers billing their clients in foreign currencies […]
Lawful procedures for actualising people’s constitution
The Constitution is the birth certificate and identity card of a Nation. It mirrors the values and aspirations of a people.
Mambilla: How legal tussle keeps Nigeria in darkness
While Nigeria continues to grope in darkness, a 3050mw hydroelectric power project conceived more than four decades ago to provide the critical power to drive the economy, is lying waste due to a protracted legal tussle between the Federal Government and Sunrise Power and Transmission Ltd, the company which won the contract to deliver the project.
How state police can work — Lawyers
Amid the recent surge in insecurity across the country, the Federal Government on February 15, 2024 announced the decision by President Bola Tinubu and state governors to work out a modality for the implementation of state police.
Rotimi Amaechi, 4,411 others sworn in as lawyers
A total of 4, 412 new lawyers were on Tuesday admitted into the Nigerian Bar.
Parliamentary democracy: Stakeholders weigh options
In this report, Vanguard’s Law & Human Rights chronicles past efforts by stakeholders to return Nigeria to parliamentary democracy through legislation and documents the opposing views that greeted the latest bill by 60 lawmakers on the same issue with an inference that the proclivity for the recalibration of the country towards economic growth and development requires more of right political culture than switching the mode of governance from presidential system to parliamentary rule.
