Constitutionalism, human rights, criminal justice, and the relationship between legal institutions and the people they serve.
A public official should be legally and physically bound to the nation s/he is serving. The knowledge that one cannot simply escape to a second home in the event of legal scrutiny serves as a powerful deterrent against malpractice.
This tide of illicit wealth washing through Abuja’s real estate demands that the relevant agencies resist the insidious embrace of ‘capture’ that renders them impotent.
Until the process of vying for political office is reformed by reducing the expenses involved, with the perquisites of public office sanitised, alongside the curbing of the other attractions of political office, every chairman of EFCC will be brought down…
Social and technological advancement are inevitably intertwined for the advancement of human development.
In the week that Nigerians await the outcome of its presidential election, the dominant news in the U.S., the nation we copied the presidential system of electoral democracy, was on its Supreme Court, as the court convened to hear cases that challenged President Joe Biden’s $400 billion worth student loan forgiveness.
On the 27th of July, a renowned human rights activist and lawyer, Inibehe Effiong raised an alarm through his official social media platforms that the Honorable Judge, Justice Ekaette Obot has sentenced him to one month imprisonment on charges bothering on contempt of court.
On the 23rd of March, 2007, Honorable Justice Ibrahim Nyaure Buba delivered an unprecedented judgment in the history of the judiciary.
But let us pose some salient questions about this matter: Is there any law in Nigeria that bars the search of the premises of a residence, even when spaces as sacrosanct as court premises can actually be searched?