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At the 2016 Annual General Conference of the NBA, the  newly elected  NBA President  Abubakar  Mahmood, in his personal capacity, ad vocated that the EFCC should be stripped of its prosecutorial powers . The EFCC leadership has angrily reacted to that proposal and resorted to a  generalized attack  against lawyers, calling them  “rogues and vultures”. Leaving aside the undesirable  intolerance and  personal attacks  against the NBA president and lawyers by  the EFCC  leadership , the real issue thrown up by the NBA President is: what should be the desired architecture  of the  relationship between

The APC-led Federal Government has demonstrated beyond doubt that it lacks the perspectives, programme, policies and capacity to take Nigeria out of crushing poverty to a life of comfort. The pronouncements and actions of Government have conclusively confirmed that under the APC-led Federal Government, pit of poverty into which the PDP threw Nigeria would be deepened rather than being attenuated. The central programme of genuine change required in Nigeria today is a programme directed at bringing about income redistribution, by which looted resources would be seized from the Nigerian rotten wealthy class and placed at improving the living standards of ordinary people. A programme of income redistribution in the context of Nigeria today would involve:

HUMAN right activist and lawyer, Comrade Femi Aborisade, yesterday, condemned the sack of a female lecturer, Dr. Adenike Ogunshe, by management of the University of Ibadan (UI), describing it as unjust, unlawful and wrongful. In a letter to UI Registrar and Secretary to Council, Aborisade explained that the lecturer on June 23, 2016 received her termination letter from the University Council, despite her appeal, which pointed out several issues of unfairness.

By Femi Aborisade [1] Labour Consultant and Attorney-at-Law 09093536706 Or 08091371874 aborisadefemi@gmail.com Introduction The current economic crisis weighing down Nigeria is caused and fuelled by two main factors: 1.       The greed of the rulers, and 2.       The ruling class surrender to IMF-World Bank dictates. Looked at from the precincts of the perspectives and ideas of the ruling class, the future is grim and society is doomed and hopeless. The facts presented are aimed at justifying imposition of austerity measures and not to explain the causes of the crisis. For example, the emphasis today is to highlight the collapse in oil price in the international market and alarming rising production costs. Nothing is said about the composition of the cost components, the disproportional high levels of income of the top management compared to the workers at the lowest levels. Nothing is said about the exclusion ...

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It is more rewarding to examine the question of police officers engaging in private business, including being commercial vehicle drivers, not just from the narrow precinct of the law but also from a broader sociological standpoint. Therefore, I examine the question from both the legal and sociological (as well as economic) perspectives.

The Position Of Law On Immunity For Public Officers And My Opinion Section 308 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended, makes provisions for immunity. This section provides that no civil or criminal proceedings shall be brought against persons holding the offices of President, Vice-President, Governor or Deputy Governor during the tenure of their offices, except in civil cases in which they are nominal parties. The section expressly provides that no court process shall be issued requiring or compelling the attendance of the listed officers. Also, the named officers, for as long as they occupy the named offices, shall not be arrested or imprisoned for any criminal offence.