After awaiting trial for 10 years and finally getting convicted, Sule is discharged from prison. With no means of survival, no home to return to, Sule survives by the rules of the street: stealing, killing, and destroying. He ends up in prison a few months later and the story repeats itself. Sule represents a large […]
*Winning Entry (3rd Place) for the 2020 Legal Pages Essay Competition for Law Undergraduates, sponsored by Primus Grace LP. Introduction The world is interconnected in ways we cannot imagine. In December 2019, the world witnessed the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). In less than seven months, it has become a global pandemic infecting over […]
The O. M. Atoyebi, SAN Legal Tech Challenge was targeted at Law students in Nigeria, with disruptive and innovative ideas. The Firm’s aim is to help bring these ideas to fruition by supporting and providing seed funding. The Challenge had several participants with over 200 submissions. Due to the rigorous selection process as well as […]
*Winning Entry (2nd Place) for the 2020 Legal Pages Essay Competition for Law Undergraduates, sponsored by Primus Grace LP. 1. INTRODUCTION History has proven time and again that it is pivotal to always prepare for what is to come. Countries around the globe are currently at war with the novel coronavirus disease christened COVID-19. The […]
Crisis have a way of bringing to light what has been hiding beneath the surface. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the worst global crisis in a century, has exposed the pre-existing fragilities in Nigeria and laid bare the age-long failure and inability to read the room. The ravages of the pandemic have been all-encompassing, with its […]
1. Olaniwun Ajayi LP Virtual Internship Programme Olaniwun Ajayi LP has announced that it is now receiving online applications for the 2020 Virtual Internship Program. Interested candidates are to send in their applications and CVs which must include Institution, level and current CGPA. Modalities 1. All law students and recent law graduates are eligible to […]
A few weeks ago, I started researching lawyers who became Senior Advocates of Nigeria at an early age. The positive responses I got pushed me to dig deep and discover more interesting facts about the Nigerian legal profession. After carrying out some surveys aimed at ascertaining how much our law students and the general public, […]
INTRODUCTION Restraining order as a remedy covers a wide range of offences and civil wrongs; however, the focus will be on domestic violence. The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team say 667 cases of domestic and sexual violence were recorded from July to September in 2018. Lagos is just one state in Nigeria; […]
Introduction The Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) of public companies is statutorily compulsory and commercially important. It is the forum created by law for shareholders, directors, and other stakeholders in public companies to make decisions, share information and ideas to advance the compan. Traditionally, AGMs have been held in physical locations. However, the Coronavirus Pandemic (“Covid-19”) […]
ABSTRACT S.39 (1) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria guarantees freedom of expression as a fundamental right. This right is also guaranteed under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments. Provisions are also made in the Constitution and the respective international instruments for restriction and derogation of this right. This […]
