The South-East Progressive Forum (SEPF), a prominent socio-political organization in South-East Nigeria, has formally requested that national security agencies identify and prosecute individuals allegedly sponsoring a coordinated blackmail campaign against the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu. The call comes in response to recent social media narratives questioning the […]
The Council of Legal Education has said that 1, 864 students of the Nigerian Law School passed the bar final examinations conducted in January. The council made this known in a statement by the Director-General of the School, Prof. Isa Chiroma, on Sunday in Abuja. The council, while releasing the results said that a total […]
The Body of Benchers and the Council of Legal Education on Tuesday call to the Bar a total of 4,779 new wings among them 161 graduands who made first class honours at the Nigerian law school, August/September 2018 Bar Final Examination. The Director General of the Nigerian Law School, Professor Isa Hayatu Chiroma (SAN), announced […]
Former Director General, Nigerian Law school, Abuja, Prof Tahir Mamman has said that no government or individual is above the rule of Law. The Professor of law inferred that both the government and the governed are under the guiding principles of law. Tahir who is a Senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) said this during the […]
Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday temporarily stopped the House of Representatives from conducting a planned public hearing on the Hijab controversy generated by a Nigerian Law School graduate, Firdrusa Abdulsalam, during the last Call to Bar ceremony in Abuja last year. Justice Chikere gave the interim order yesterday, while […]
Will the dream of law graduates from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) to enlist in the Nigerian Law School and become practising lawyers ever come true? The answer is this piece investigated by Peter Fowoyo. For now, more than one thousand lawyers who completed their studies at the National Open University of Nigeria […]