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Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) [Photo Credit: The Guardian] On Friday, January 25, 2019, the President of Nigeria , Muhammadu Buhari, suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Nkannu Samuel Onnoghen from office, and immediately administered the judicial oath of office to the most senior Supreme Court Justice …
Three-month sentence at Old Bailey automatically triggers a recall petition in Peterborough seat Rajeev SyalTue 29 Jan 2019 13.20 GMT Three-month sentence at Old Bailey automatically triggers a recall petition in Peterborough seat An MP has been given a three-month jail sentence for lying to avoid a speeding ticket, automatically triggering a recall petition in her …
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Black Britons are still supposed to keep out of the debate on the country’s colonial past I think I was eight the first time I saw the Benin bronzes. I was taken to see them at the British Museum by my white, British mother, who felt it important that her half-Nigerian children learned about the …
The British High Commission expresses serious concern over the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria. The UK issued the following statement: The British High Commission expresses serious concern over the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria. We have heard a wide range of credible and independent voices, including in the Nigerian legal profession …
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Paul Usoro, SAN The NBA-NEC Emergency meeting which was held today, the 28th of January 2019, ended with some resolutions. In the resolutions sighted by TheNigerialawyer (TNL), it was held that lawyers all over Nigeria boycott all courts in the land for two days starting from the 29th day of January, 2019. SUMMARY OF RESOLUTIONS …
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