Posted on: Jun 05 2013 Former President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) told reporters in Lagos that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the police were mishandling the prosecution of suspects. What is your reaction to the handling of the the subsidy probe by the EFCC? Not just…
Our People Are Frozen By Different Emotions, We Must Defreeze Them. Olisa Agbakoba, former Civil Liberty Organisation (CLO) and Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) President was among those who laboured to enthrone this Fourth Republic. You were an active player in the processes in the 90s, which culminated in the birth of the Fourth Republic. Fourteen…
Central to the legitimacy and function of Nigeria’s electoral democracy is a fair, non-partisan, and just legal framework. In particular, the process of adjudicating complaints and resolving election disputes is key. However, Nigeria’s judicial branch remains susceptible to political pressure and the abuse of injunctive orders, wherein a judicial decree is issued to stop events…
This book is a single and convenient compilation of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules and every other body of sub-rules in existence and applicable in the Federal High Court. A convenient table-top piece, quick-reference for all practitioners, including judges and lawyers, and every other person involved in research into the Federal High Court’s…
As part of our “Development Law Book Series,” this manual presents a simple legal analysis of the state of our investment law and what we have left undone to enable more friendly investment and business climate to thrive. This is in furtherance of our belief that law is a vital tool for economic re-engineering and…
As part of our “Development Law Book Series,” we have focused this edition on the financial services laws and development. Here we are focused on the overarching legal framework within which financial services operate in Nigeria and the need for reforms to put it on the path of steady growth. This is due to the…
This is the first in the series called “Development Law Book Series.” We have focused this edition on the conceptual notion of development law and the need to re-evaluate the general approach in order to reap the value of our economic reform processes. As usual, it has focused on the overarching legal framework operative in…
Nigeria’s judicial procedures are plagued with an obnoxious practice, widely known as “holding charge,” whereby the police obtains the endorsement of a court which lacks jurisdiction, to remand a criminal suspect in prison custody indefinitely. Suspects held under the holding charge regime may remain in detention as awaiting trial prisoners for upwards of five years…
