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Judicial Silence

Section 83 and the Myth of Judicial Silence in Party Politics

By Monday Ubani SAN The recent assertion by my brother, Festus Okoye…

Ogunsakin Mustapha Ogunsakin Mustapha
Abanobi

Abanobi V The State and the evil of kidnapping(1)

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa INTRODUCTION According to the learned authors of Black’s Law…

Ogunsakin Mustapha Ogunsakin Mustapha
Adegboruwa

Alabra v Min FCT and the pains of land owners(2)

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN The Determination of Whether Action Statute-Barred: The question…

Ogunsakin Mustapha Ogunsakin Mustapha
Amupitan

Amupitan and the Ruse of Law

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In Nigeria, every act of political grubbiness sooner…

Ogunsakin Mustapha Ogunsakin Mustapha
Adegboruwa

Alabra vs Min FCT: The pains of land owners (1)

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN INTRODUCTION Land has more or less become gold…

Ogunsakin Mustapha Ogunsakin Mustapha
Adegboruwa

The dangers of one-party state

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN INTRODUCTION The plurality of the entity known as…

Ogunsakin Mustapha Ogunsakin Mustapha
Aiyedatiwa

Court bars Aiyedatiwa from vying for another term as Ondo Gov

A Federal High Court, Akure Division, on Thursday barred Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa…

Ogunsakin Mustapha Ogunsakin Mustapha
Adegboruwa

Chukwu v The State and the wages of temper

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN INTRODUCTION Reading through pages of judgments of courts…

Ogunsakin Mustapha Ogunsakin Mustapha
Abejide

The End of Impunity: Accountability and the Rule of Law in Nigeria

Dr. Abejide B. Olusegun “When you are dead, you do not know…

Ogunsakin Mustapha Ogunsakin Mustapha
Abia

Fraudsters-In-Law: The conspiracy against Abia State

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In June 2005, the Paris Club of creditors…

Ogunsakin Mustapha Ogunsakin Mustapha

Mutual Aim: from crisis to self-sufficiency

In a time when humanitarian crises are increasing in scale and complexity…

Ayomide Ogunsakin Ayomide Ogunsakin
Adegboruwa

David vs People of Lagos State: Simplifying bail process in criminal prosecution (2)

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN THE ESSENCE OF BAIL The facts of this…

Ogunsakin Mustapha Ogunsakin Mustapha

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