Lakanmi & Kikelomo Ola v. Attorney-General (West) & Others [1971] 1 UILR 201 is that story. It is a case about constitutional limits, corporate accountability, the rule of law
When “We Had No Choice” Becomes a Legal Doctrine: The Doctrine of Necessity in Nigerian Constitutional Law by Lawson Akhigbe
I also want to be clear that it has, in the hands of Nigerian courts, occasionally been stretched to cover acts that the drafters of our constitution would have regarded with the same horror with which a tailor regards a customer who has put on thirty pounds since their last fitting and still insists the suit fits perfectly
Role in British Empire finance
The City of London (the Square Mile) was the indispensable financial engine of the British Empire.
Exploring City of London Autonomy History
The City as operating “outside UK law,” with its own government, police, and mayor, acting as an offshore tax haven immune to Parliament, these claims are exaggerated
The Log in Our Eye: The Quiet Tragedy of Nigeria’s “Lost” Inmates by Lawson Akhigbe
The grim reality of the Nigerian justice system was laid bare recently in a devastating report by Arise News. In 2007, a 14-year-old boy named Gospel Kinani disappeared from Ogoniland, Rivers State. For nearly two decades, his family searched for him in vain; the profound grief even claimed the lives of both his parents. Eighteen years later, Gospel was finally found not dead, but alive, broken, and languishing inside the Port Harcourt Correctional Center at 33 years old.

