Covid- 19: The Journey Ends Here
The Corona Virus for every reason made available to time has made history. That recent human history has never been this troubled by the widespread and panic-inducing effect of a pandemic of this magnitude. The world will forever remember this era with nostalgic grief for many years to come. The pandemic tells the story […]
A Protest against Jungle Justice in Nigeria
A Speech Delivered By Barr. Evans Ufeli on the 26th of November 2016 in Lagos State on the Occasion of a Civil Walk Against Mob Killings and Domestic Violence in Nigeria.
Lagos State Land Law Prohibiting Forceful Entry And Illegal Occupation Of Landed Properties (4)
Click to read the introductory part to this series. PROHIBITION OF DEMAND FOR FEE IN REGARD TO CONSTRUCTION Section 11 of the Law is by far the most popular provision of the Law. Anybody who has done construction work in Lagos and its environs has one tale or the other to tell about the notorious omo […]
Lagos State Land Law Prohibiting Forceful Entry And Illegal Occupation Of Landed Properties (3)
Click to read the introductory and second parts to this series. SALE OF PROPERTY WITHOUT AUTHORITY Purported sale of land by persons not having legal title to it is by far one of the commonest and most dreaded evils associated with land acquisition. This is because a lot of people conjure different types of […]
Lagos State Land Law Prohibiting Forceful Entry And Illegal Occupation Of Landed Properties (2)
To read the first part of this series, click here. ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF PROPERTY Section 4 of the new Law provides that a person who is occupying a property as an encroacher and fails to leave the property on being required to do so by or on behalf of the owner of the property […]
Marriage and the Modern Man
While it is admitted that marriage is a sacred union between two humans of separate identity, motives and intentions, it is equally not mistaken that the modern man has found it useful but not in its entirety. Given the high rate of divorce cases in our clan, domestic violence in the home front, sexual abuses […]
A Review of the Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
In a fictive world sorted by Lola Soneyin, a carefully plotted story reveals the innards of a polygamous family, laced with rotten carnages and adulterous secrecy. In a cleverly but humorous plot, the story assumes a protagonist; Baba Segi and his four wives with numerous children. It was for him the mark of wealth and […]
Women in Nigeria Prisons: The Legal and Social Implications
It is trite to state that correction facilities in modern countries are put in place to reform inmates who have committed offences against the state. The facilities are equipped to psychologically propel prisoners into submission to good behaviours, thereby saving society the ache of criminal resurgence. It is in these correction centres that recalcitrant […]
Intellectual Property, Copyright and Trademark Under the Nigerian Law
Intellectual property is a work of creativity which accrues legal right that results from intellectual activities in the industrial, scientific, literary and the artistic field. The legal right which may be asserted in respect of the product of the human intellect, that area of the law which concerns legal right associated with creative effort or […]
The Need for Mobilization Against Corruption Pt. 2
In an earlier post, I discussed the need for mobilization against Corruption in Nigeria, and will now provide my recommendations on how the social woe can be resolved once and for all. First, I believe that the civil society groups must agitate for tougher laws with grave punitive measures, so corruption should be made a […]
The Anti-Social Media Bill and the Senate
The Nigerian society is one with a set of political leaders who by all means speed up legislations on issues that affect them but will ignore the masses and push no bill to help them come out of poverty. The most pressing issues of life that affect the ordinary man like education, security, shelter, food […]
Registration of Companies, Business Names and Incorporated Trustees Under the Nigerian Law
Business is critical in every economy and it has become one of man’s most engaging activities since the advent of the industrial revolution. Most countries of the world have enacted legislations to regulate business activities for the smooth running of society, including Nigeria. COMPANIES The formation and registration of companies are regulated by the Companies […]
Letter to Ken Saro-Wiwa
Dear Ken, It’s twenty years now since you left us. I’m partly from Rivers State given that my mum is from Opobo. I was only but a child when they took you away from us. I was just fifteen years old then to be precise. My father had sent me to get the dailies when […]
Fundamental Human Rights Enforcement Under the Nigerian Law
Human rights are rights which are recognized legally as Fundamental Rights as distinguished from mere aspirations or individual ideas of rights. These fundamental rights are now embodied in Chapter IV of the Nigeria constitution 1999 as amended from Section 33 and 45 and the African charter on Human and People Right. The charter became part of Nigeria law […]
How Experience Kills
When you think of us Nigerians well enough, you will come to find out our many errors. We have a government that promised change at all levels of governance. These leaders play on one philosophy that has held our psyche hostage. They say experience is almost always everything there is to competence. That you need […]
Ministerial Appointments, Federal Character: A System Due for Review
What we now know as Nigeria started to evolve in 1861 following the annexation of Lagos as the crown colony and as a result of the gradual incorporation of the contiguous areas and people into the British empire. From the British perspective, the amalgamation was motivated by the desire to pool resources so as to […]