President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday signed the 2019 finance bill into law in Abuja. The bill signed into law marks the commencement of the proposed increase in the rate of value-added tax from the present 5% to 7.5%. The bill was submitted to the national assembly alongside the budget. However, the bill signing is coming […]
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Law Graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) say they are yet to know their fate of gaining admission into the Nigerian Law School in spite the Presidential assent to NOUN Amendment Act. Mr Carl Umegboro, Chairman of the Law Graduates Forum, NOUN, said this in an interview with the News Agency of […]
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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday signed into law three bills passed by the National Assembly which are now Acts of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The bills are the Federal Capital Territory Civil Service Commission (Establishment) Act, 2018; the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (Establishment) Act, 2018; and the Federal School of Medical Laboratory Technology […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law, a bill that prevents a vice-president (VP) who completes a president’s tenure from contesting twice. Speaking with journalists at Aso Rock on Friday, Ita Enang, senior special assistant on national assembly matters (senate), said the law also applies to a deputy governor who completes the tenure of a governor. […]
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Justice Raliat Adebiyi of an Ikeja High Court, Lagos has convicted a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Joseph Nwobike of bribing a Federal High Court Judge, Justice Mohammed Yinusa. In a long read judgement, Justice Adebiyi found Nwobike guilty on a one counts charge of attempting to pervert the course of Justice. Nwobike was arraigned by […]
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An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday granted bail in the sum of N500,000 to a man, Kenneth Abuya, who allegedly impregnated his 10-year-old daughter. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs B.O. Osunsanmi also directed that Abuya should produce two sureties in like sum. She ordered that the sureties must be property owners in Lagos State and […]
Continue ReadingThe National Universities Commission (NUC) has put on hold admissions into the law programme of the National Open University of Nigeria(NOUN), Prof. Julius Okojie, NUC’s Executive Secretary has, said.Okojie said at an interactive dinner with newsmen on Thursday that the moratorium would be in place pending the resolution of issues with the Council on Legal […]
Continue ReadingVice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that laws should not be made to restrict the freedom of worship in the country.Osinbajo said this in a keynote address at the “First National Judicial Roundtable on The Intersection between Law and Religion’’ at the National Judicial Institute, Abuja on Monday. The vice president insisted that in a […]
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