Sometime in August 2005, a combined team of both policemen and operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), launched an onslaught on the notorious Oluwole Market located in the commercial nerve centre of Lagos State. Then it was a notorious enclave for criminals, who specialized in forgeries and sophisticated crimes such as international passport racketeering, credit card fraud, drug cartel, fake certificates, currency and visa forgeries; among others.

By Akpo Mudiaga Odje Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all  the civil, political and religious rights”-Junius. It is a great privilege to be called upon to address this esteemed gathering of members of the proficient Fourth […]

By Olatunbosunmomi Oyintiloye Topmost on the agenda of the Federal Government for today is the conduct of 2011 elections to which various reforms have been targeted to make it an incontestable free and fair election. It is for this reason that those agitating for the renewal of Professor Maurice Iwu’s term as INEC Chairman lost […]

Ahmed Yerima, currently a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a former Governor of Zamfara State, has been widely reported in several media to have recently married a 13 year old girl from Egypt. We are informed that the child was imported along with about 30 members of her family, into Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory, for the ceremony of marriage that held at the National Mosque. Un-denied reports indicate that the distinguished Senator paid some $100,000 as dowry.

By Innocent Anaba The Nigerian Monthly Law Reports, NMLR, first published in 1964, but suspended publications in 1976, this week  hit the bookshops.  NMLR, which was also Nigeria’s first wholly privately-owned law reports, was the leading Nigerian law reports and earned a reputation as Nigeria’s foremost scholarly law reports. The founding editors of the NMLR […]