The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee, LPPC, has approved the elevation of 62 legal practitioners to the rank of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN. The LPPC, which is headed by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, okayed the conferment of the rank on the lawyers, at the …
Read More »Sokoto Caliphate seeks return of artefacts from UK, France
After decades of atrocities, enslavement, exploitation and massacre committed to the people of Sokoto Caliphate in 1903 by colonial masters, the caliphate now seeks the return of all its looted historical artefacts by the colonial masters from France and United Kingdom. The looted intellectual, literary works, artefacts and relics of …
Read More »INEC proposes January 2023 to publish voter register
The Independent National Electoral Commission has set January 2023 as its proposed date for publication of voter register, ahead of the 2023 general election. The Commission disclosed this, Monday, at the two-day Capacity Building Workshop for INEC Press Corps on critical issues in the Electoral Act, 2022, and the Commission’s …
Read More »Kwara court remands woman for allegedly marrying two husbands
A Kwara State family court sitting in Ilorin has remanded a housewife, Awawu Haruna, and two others for allegedly marrying another man while in a subsisting relationship. Awawu Haruna was dragged before the Kwara State family court alongside her father, Haruna Danjuma, by her legal husband, Ayuba Sule, after she …
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