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02/09/2022

How indefinite can an indefinite strike be. Today marks the 200th day of the Academic Staff Union of Universities Strike action which commenced in February, 2022 as a month-strike.

The last meeting held on August 29 was apparently unproductive being followed by a press statement that the industrial action would henceforth be "comprehensive, total, and indefinite," effective from 12am on Monday.
Statements like such displays the weakness of the education sector and the power of certain persons to put the sector in a deteriorating state at their own volition. Candidly, the educational sector is strangled every day both by the government and interest groups like ASUU, yet the unfortunate culprit remains the Nigerian students, who are not even the subject of the crisis.

The right to education at best as posited by the 1999 Nigerian Constitution which applies to education is section 18(1) and (3), and to this right there is no remedy due to the non-justiciability clause of Section 6(6)(c) whitch bars the judiciary from exersing their judicial authority to question the government where it fails to do what the law requires.

Education is crucial to ensuring human dignity of all individuals, and essential for the stability of the society. The earlier this is understood, the earlier a nation can be preserved.

Today, thousands of Nigerian students have lost faith in education as the future of the country. Violence and insecurity at the same time is on the rise, yet it becomes devastating that the nation refuses to admit it.

19/08/2022

Barr. Inibehe & Justice Ekaette Obot: Contempt of Court or Abuse of Judicial Authority?

The recent conviction of foremost human rights activist, Barr. Inibehe Effiong by the Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State over an alleged rude and contemptuous behaviour has raised disturbing reactions to the efficiency of the court in protecting the rights of the aggrieved public in seeking legal remedies.
An exhaustive definition of the concept of the offence of Contempt of Court is captured in The Dictionary of English Law, that Contempt of Court is where a person who is a party to a proceeding in a Superior Court of record fails to comply with an order made against him or an undertaking given by him or where a person whether a party to a proceeding or not does any act which may tend to hinder the course of justice or show disrespect to the Court’s authority. Contempts are direct, which only insult or resist the powers of the Court or the persons of the judges who preside there; or consequential, which without such gross insolence, or direct opposition plainly tend to create a universal disregard of their authority.
Contempt may be divided into acts of contempt committed in the court itself (in fa cie curiae) and out of court(ex-facie curiae). Among the former, are all acts, as talking boisterously, applauding any part of the proceedings, refusing to be sworn or to answer a question as a witness, interfering with the business of the Court and refusing to acquiesce in the ruling of the Court or speaking disrespectfully of or to the judge. Among the latter is the attempt by intimidation to cause any suitor to discontinue his action, kidnapping or corrupting or attempting to do so … obstructing or attempting to obstruct the officers of the Court on their way to their duties, speaking or writing disrespectfully of the authorities of the Court, etc.
However, not every act of discourtesy to the Court by Counsel that amounts to contempt. For an act to amount to contempt, it must be...

27/07/2022

What other roles do Counsels perform to their Clients?

26/07/2022

Congratulations goes in order to Tobi Amusan for setting a new world record in the women's 100m hurdles final during the World Athletics Championship in Oregon, USA.

26/07/2022

The Nations power sector like her educational sector has witnessed in the past few days a massive grid collapse that led to the crash of power generation from 3900 megawatts to 3MW, causing blackouts across the country.

Unfortunately, an investigation has been launced to identify the cause of the power grid collapse to proffer solutions accordingly.

However, what will be the fate of the power sector with its insistence to join the solidarity protest of the Nigeria Labour Congress/Academic Staff Union of Universities to kick against the strike action facing tertiary institutions in Nigeria?

22/07/2022

What does the option of APC's Muslim-Muslim Presidential Ticket mean to you?

A. Competence over Religion
B. Insensitivity to Sentiments of Nigerians
C. Electoral Winning Strategy
D. An attack on National Unity and diversity
E. Others (specify)

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20/07/2022

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08/07/2022

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05/07/2022

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1. Where the police used their initiative on the strength of their investigation to effect an arrest or detention, no liability will like against them.
2. A citizen who is arrested by the police in the legitimate exercise of their duty and on grounds of reasonable suspicion cannot succeed against the police for breach of his fundamental right to personal liberty.

04/07/2022

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27/06/2022

Justice Augie noting the finality of Supreme Court decisions had stated that "The decision of this court is final for all ages; it is final in the real sense of the word, final; and no force on earth can get this court to shift its decision... To do otherwise is to open a floodgate of litigation on appeals that have already been settled by this court. There is no even guarantee that if these two applications are granted, the other side will not come with a fresh application to review the ruling on the ground that this court did not consider certain aspects of the arguments in its ruling. There would be no end in sight.”

However, whilst there is no constitutional provision for the Supreme Court to review its judgment as section 235 of the Constitution gives a stamp of finality to any decision of the Supreme Court; It is evident that where the grounds exists, Supreme Courts of basically all jurisdictions will not shy away from setting aside their judgments or orders but that such inherent jurisdiction cannot be converted into an appellate jurisdiction as though the matter before it is another appeal intended to afford the losing litigants a new window to restate or re-argue their appeal

17/06/2022

Development Law Resources Organization continues her objective of