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Abimbola was called to the Bar in England and Wales on 25th November 1993. He is called to the Nigerian Bar where he was admitted as a Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of Nigeria on 26th November 2014. Abimbola returned to independent practice at the Bar in July 2009 having worked in local …
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Yesterday gunmen stormed into a Catholic church in Ozubulu and gunned down members of the congregation who were attending Sunday mass. As the drama unfolded and social media was agog with gory pictures, the rumour mills started grinding and the blame was immediately directed at all sorts of terrorist groups. As the day progressed, however, …
Editorial Chidi gets the politics wrong here. Constitutional amendments are not precise legal and academic excises. It's the juxtaposition of interests, selfish and selfless. It's the nature of breast. Democracy is messy and what is political is legal. Chidi OdinkaluNigeria’s legislators have chosen to trifle with the serious business of constitutional change. Driven solely by …
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Richard Nixon’s telephone calls came regularly during the 1968 campaign. And H.R. Haldeman took meticulous notes, jotting down the instructions he received from the candidate.Sometimes Nixon needed to blow off steam: demanding that a reporter from The Washington Post or The New York Times be banned from his campaign airplane for writing an offending story. …
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