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The 2024 Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association will hold in Lagos. Rising from the National Executive Committee Meeting held on Friday 22nd, December 2023, the Nigerian Bar Association declared 23rd August, 2024 as the commencement date for the Annual General Conference of the Association. Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, SAN., also declared that Lagos is the destination for the year 2024 Annual General Conference (AGC) of the largest gathering of lawyers will hold from Friday 23rd to Friday 30th August, 2024.  

Story By: TOLU MUSTAPHA  The much anticipated Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of Nigeria's oldest refinery seem to have finally become a reality as promised by the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. At about midnight on Wednesday, 21st December, 2023, a short video surface online showing the return to life of the refinery which has been undergoing total overhaul in the last few months. Engineers and other workers on site at the refinery were seen in jubilant mood as they watched with keen interest the gas flaring light coming out of the newly overhauled refinery. The Port Harcourt Refinery, which comprises processing units, utility plants, and tank farms, is undergoing a comprehensive rehabilitation involving a complete overhaul and change-out of major equipment.

The Senate committee on Judicary and Human Right has commenced screening of the 11 nominees to the vacant Supreme court bench. The names of the nominees were sent to the Senate today by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for screening and approval by the Senate. Confirming commencement of the screening exercise, senator representing Oyo South senatorial district, who is also a member of the Senate committee on Judicary and Human Rights, Sen. (Barr.) Sharafadeen Abiodun Alli said the exercise has commenced in earnest, "They're being screened now by the Committee on Judiciary and Human Right of which I am a member", he said. The Justices of the Court of Appeal currently being screened for elevation to the supreme court bench are; Justice Jummai Sankey Justice S tephen Adah J ustice Mohammed Idris Justice Haruna Tsammani Justice Jamilu Tukur Justice Abubakar Umar Justice Chidiebere Uwa Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme Justice Obande Ogbuinya Justice Moore Adumein  Justice Habeeb Abiru

President Tinubu has formally requested the Senate to confirm the appointment of 11 new Justices nominated to the Supreme Court bench. The president, in a letter to the upper legislative chamber read at Wednesday’s plenary, listed the names of the judicial officers as follows; Justice Jummai Sankey Justice S tephen Adah J ustice Mohammed Idris Justice Haruna Tsammani Justice Jamilu Tukur Justice Abubakar Umar Justice Chidiebere Uwa Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme Justice Obande Ogbuinya Justice Moore Adumein  Justice Habeeb Abiru S ection 231(2) of the 1999 Constitution which empowers the president to appoint new Supreme Court justices subject to confirmation by the Senate. The correspondence from President Tinubu is coming weeks after the National Judicial Council (NJC) had in October recommended to him the elevation of the nominated judges to the apex court and the upper legislative chamber is expected to expedite action on screening and confirming the new justices. The approval by senato

  A shocking wave of mass retirement has hit the Nigerian Army. On Tuesday, a total of 113 Nigerian Army Generals retired from service. They include, one General, one Lieutenant General, 67 Major Generals, and 44 Brigadier Generals. At the Regimental Dinner Night in Abuja held in their honor, Minister of Defence, Abubakar Badaru praised the Nigerian Army for it's support of democracy in Nigeria.  He emphasized that this support has made the Army an example to follow in West Africa and beyond and urged other services in the region to emulate them. In a statement released by Brig. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu on Wednesday, the director of Army Public Relations, the minister encouraged the army to remain loyal to the constitution and continue supporting democracy’s development in Nigeria. The statement also noted that members of the Armed Forces should uphold their duty to support democracy both within Nigeria and across international borders. During his speech at the dinner night, Badaru co

In a concerted effort to combat loan app defamation in Nigeria, Citizens' Gavel a civic tech NGO that aims to create a world where justice delivery is fast and efficient regardless of economic or political demographics has submitted a formal petition to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), seeking the immediate sanction of thirty unlicensed digital money lenders operating in Nigeria. These entities, violating the consumer rights of Nigerians has raised concerns about their unlicensed operations and unethical practices. The organization, dedicated to justice delivery, transparency, and legal support, highlighted the alarming trend of unlicensed digital money lenders resorting to illegal means, such as harassment, character assassination and data privacy breaches, to coerce customers into settling outstanding debts. The petition, supported by over 600 complaints against these entities, pinpoints thirty companies engaged in unethical practices ranging from defamation, character assassin

  The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja has issued an order to freeze the accounts of the Oyo state government in ten commercial banks across the country. The order was issued by Justice A. O. Ebong in a ruling on a proceeding initiated by ex-council chiefs in Oyo state, sacked on May 29, 2019 by Governor Seyi Makinde, and who in 2021 got a N4,874,889,425.60 judgment against Makinde and other officials/agencies of the state. The other officials/agencies listed with Makinde as judgment debtors, by virtue of the May 7, 2021 judgment of the Supreme Court, are the Attorney General, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Accountant General of Oyo State, Speaker of the House of Assembly, the House of Assembly and the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC). The garnishee proceeding is intended by the ex-council chiefs, led by Bashorun Majeed Ajuwon, to recover the balance of N3,424,889,425.60 (N3.5b) which is outstanding from the actua