KAYODE Bankole is a lawyer passionate about his job. Through determination, focus and industry, Bankole has carved a niche for himself in the area of land and property laws where he stands shoulder high among his colleagues.

He opened the...

In the Court of Appeal of Nigeria,

In the Akure Judicial Division,

Holden at Akure on Thursday, November 29, 2012,

Before their lordships:

Kudirat M. O. Kekere-Ekun  Justice, Court of Appeal;

Chima Centus Nweze, Justice, Court of...

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IT is a settled principle of law that where there is a right, there must be a remedy for the breach of the right, ibi jus ibi remedim. The application to this principle of the breach of human rights, guaranteed under the 1999 Constitution is more...

THIS is the concluding part of a lecture delivered by Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) on the above subject matter in this year’s Dr. Akinola Aguda Memorial Lecture held at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS). Aguda was the first...

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THE Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, has called the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to partner the National Judicial Institute (NJI) on educating state high court judges on the several aspects of business law.

Justice...

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THE news filtered in as rumour coming a couple of hours after the outgoing Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Eng. Yomi Bolarinwa, chaired a forum in Lagos. None within the airwaves’ regulatory agency family was...

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