A lawyer, John Yuwa Esq, has addressed a petition to the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) against another lawyer named M. K. Gurumyen Esq. According to the petition published by BarristerNG, Mr. Yuwa alleged that on 23 September 2021, he appeared before the Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Gombe, Gombe State, for a

Introduction Receivership remains one of the ways a secured creditor may recover debts owed to it by a company. By this, a creditor reserves the right to appoint (by deed) a receiver for the purpose of realising the assets (sell some of the assets or the company itself) of the debtor company towards the satisfaction

The story* Two young ladies, Chinaza and Favour, are nieces of a woman named Gift Nonye Ukatu. Their parents gave them to her to be placed in school and looked after. The girls were about 12 years old when they were brought to the woman. She placed them in school but after some time, she

In the case of Mr. Moses G. Jwan v. Ecobank Nigeria Plc & UBA Plc [2021] 10 NWLR (Pt. 1785) 449, Jwan was a customer of Ecobank. He used the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card issued to him by Ecobank on the ATM belonging to UBA where he tried to withdraw the sum of N10,000.

On 17 September 2018, in the case of CBN v. Umar [2019] 10 NWLR (Pt. 1679) 75, the Court of Appeal cleared the coast when it held that accounts of banks with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) can be garnisheed without prior consent of the Attorney-General of the Federation. Williams-Dawodu, JCA stated, after a

On 25 January 2014, somewhere in Kebbi State, a group of hunters went on a hunting expedition. One Muhammadu Sani Kalgo and one Mohammed Bandi were among them. Fight broke out over bushmeat. Kalgo didn’t take lightly some things Bandi told him during the fight. Annoyed, Kalgo used an axe to break Bandi’s head. A

El-Hanan Ventures Ltd. v. R. M. S. Ltd. [2021] 10 NWLR (Pt. 1784) 211 at 232-233, per Hassan, JCA.* It is also the contention of the Appellant that the enrolled Order did not reflect the Judgment, as the trial Court only made orders in respect of reliefs 1 and 3 while in the drawn up

I understand the struggle. The Biafran ideology existed before the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was formed and even before the emergence of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB. The Biafran ideology has been kept alive by the activities of IPOB. The Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Buhari has been at loggerheads