IN this report, Vanguard’s Law & Human Rights examines the constitutional provisions regarding the election of leaders of legislative houses in the country and the pattern of emergence of the past and current leadership of the national and state houses of assemblies, surveys stakeholders on the implication of the role played by the executive at both national and subnational levels in the election oflegislative houses’ leaders.

MR Emuobonuvie Majemite is a Partner at PUNUKA Attorneys and Solicitors and head of both the Property Law and the Arbitration and ADR practice groups. In this interview, he speaks on the urgent need to separate the Attorneys-General office from the office of Minister of Justice.

IN this report, Vanguard’s Law & Human Rights examines a bill signed into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on June 8, 2023, unifying the retirement age of judges of superior courts of record in the country, with a survey of the stakeholders on the desirability of the legislation and argues that though the legislation is not without its merits, yet the relevant authorities appear to have put their cart before their horse.

In this report, Vanguard’s Law and  Human Rights recaptures the mood of Nigerians together with their expectations when Maj.-Gen Muhammadu Buhari took over the mantle of leadership on May 29, 2015; examines the state of the judiciary arm of government at the time, the stakeholders’ expectations and how the administration of the gap-toothed General addressed them even as it surveys lawyers on the way forward regarding the relationship between the executive and the judiciary under the new government of President Bola Tinubu.

IN 2000, President Bill Clinton’s administration passed special trade laws to promote trade ties between the US, Africa, and the Caribbean.