Man stabs lawyer in Nigeria for helping his wife prepare divorce suit

40-year-old Nigerian lawyer, Abayomi Oladire, was stabbed by his client’s husband while performing his legal duty in the Ondo West Local Government Area of the state. According to the state-owned newspaper, The Hope, the suspect identified as Kunle Kuteyi, used a broken bottle to stab the lawyer for allegedly helping his wife to prepare a […]

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Lawyer brutalises wife over key until she bleeds in Nigeria (Video)

A lawyer identified simply as Mr Ebong, beat up his wife during an argument over a key. The man brutalised his wife until he broke her mouth and she started bleeding. “Give me the key,” he kept saying as he attacked the woman. It took the intervention of neighbours to stop him from further attacking […]

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Lawyer urges Ondo to investigate alleged forgery of gov Akeredolu’s signature

Mr. Allen Sowore, legal practitioner, has called on the Ondo State Executive Council to investigate the alleged act of forgery of the signature of the Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu. It was reported on some social platforms that the signature of the governor had allegedly been forged by some people in government to enable them to […]

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Reports that Obi’s Petition is not asking to be declared winner are false ―Lawyer

Reports are going rounds on social media, that the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, is not seeking to be declared the winner of the Presidential election. Responding, a popular Nigerian human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has released a statement via his twitter handle, where he noted that such reports are false and […]

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Lawyer ordered to produce socialite, Toyin Kolade in court, over alleged $32m fraud

Nigeria’s Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos and presided over by Justice Peter Odo Lifu, on Tuesday, ordered a lawyer, Mr. Kehinde Awowole to produce his client, a popular businesswoman and socialite, Princess Toyin Kolade, who was alleged to be involved in a $32 million USD fraud, in court on December 3. Princess Toyin […]

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Sunday Igboho diagnosed with possible kidney illness in Beninise custody ―Lawyer

Yoruba Youth Leader and activist, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has been reportedly diagnosed with possible kidney or lungs illness. Yomi Aliyu SAN, one of his lawyers, made this known in an interview with BBC Yoruba, noting that the Yoruba Nation and rights activist developed the illness in Benin Republic prison custody. According […]

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Lawyer narrates encounter with IPOB members, says they were armed to the teeth

Lawyer and former chairman of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Lagos branch, Fabian Onwughalu, has narrated his encounter with gunmen who are supporters of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Onwughalu, who narrated how he was trailed by the men in Nnewi, Anambra state, said they were heavily armed with sophisticated weapons. He […]

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Nigeria’s DSS prevents Kanu from signing consent forms for UK legal and consular assistance —Lawyer

In a statement on Monday, one of the counsels for the detained IPOB leader, Aloy Ejimakor, said Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) has stopped the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from signing the two consent forms, one by a UK legal team and the other for consular […]

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Lawyer dragged Nigerian President, Senate & 2 others to court over hate speech bill

One lawyer, Tope Akinyode, has dragged Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Senate and two others to court over the proposed ‘Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulations Bill 2019.” In the suit he filed at the Federal High Court in Lagos, Akinyode is seeking an order of perpetual injunction prohibiting the respondents from enacting the […]

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