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 […]

By Kayode Matthew Senator Joy Emodi representing Anambra North Senatorial District at the National Assembly has filed an application before the Court of Appeal, sitting in Enugu asking the appellate court to seek direction from the Supreme Court on some Constitutional issues involved in the conflicting judgments delivered by the appeal court in the election […]

By Obiora Obeagu The case of Emodi V. Igbeke is no doubt one of the most controversial election petition cases in recent times. The crux of the matter is that the Appeal Court Enugu delivered two judgments on the same election that separately returned Senator Joy Emodi and Hon. Alphonsus Igbeke, as Senators representing Anambra […]

It is a season of agitation for pay raise. Good enough the deal on national minimum wage has been struck. The three social partners have agreed on N18,000 per month though it still has to undergo the due legislative and executive process before implementation .