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.

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.

RENOWNED Professor of Industrial Relations, Professor Dafe Otobo, has called on labour unions in the country to be to be focused and more committed in the struggle to improve the living conditions of workers and masses in Nigeria today in the face of the changing socio-economic environment.

EDO state council of Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has commended the Adams Oshiomhole-led government of Edo state for the unprecedented positive changes taking place in the state especially in the area of infrastructure and employment creation.

The acute transportation problem which staff and students of the 69 federal tertiary institutions in Nigeria have been facing in the last 30 years is already on the path of becoming history as the Federal Government has procured for them 138 buses worth N2 billion.

By faith in God, teamwork and divine intervention, we are now celebrating what God made possible. His pure divine intervention. Many organisations contributed to our projects.

THE report of the Visitation Panel set up by the Lagos State Government has been a contentious issue at the Congress of the Academic Staff Union, ASUU, Lagos State University, LASU, Chapter over delay in submission.

As part of the National Universities Commission (NUC) effort to protect the interest of gullible students seeking admission into universities, its Executive Secretary, Professor Julius Okojie has stated that illegal institutions and satellite campuses which have assumed a new dimension in the country must be properly addressed in the interest of stakeholders in education sector. He reaffirmed his commitment to deal legally with unlicenced universities recently during Novena University, Ogume convocation ceremony.