Divorces are often emotionally charged and can be both lengthy and complicated. Yet, many people may wonder if they need a lawyer to help them through the divorce process. While there are some situations where a lawyer isn’t crucial, more often than not, a lawyer will be needed. Below are just a few of the times you’ll want a lawyer on your side. When the Divorce is High-Conflict Many factors can cause a divorce to become high conflict. This can happen when one spouse doesn’t want the divorce and wants their partner to pay for filing the divorce or when…
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Campaigns of calumny allegedly being orchestrated to de-market the immediate past Minister of Transportation, Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, have been described as a waste of time and an effort in futility. Giving the thought in a statement issued and circulated in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-South region, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, also described Amaechi as the star in the immediate past executive council of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, whose performance, both as a minister and election campaign lead, were starling and unbeaten. It would be recalled that there…
Read what Late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola told Late Chief Gani Fawehinmi two days before he was killed. ABIOLA’S LETTER TO GANI FAWEHINMI (written on 05/07/98 and given to Lola Edewor & Bisi, Abiola’s 3rd wife during their visit to Abiola 2 days before he was killed). – “l am not a deserter”… My dear Gani, Praise be to God for your life and the courage, fortitude and determination with which He endowed you. May we live long to be of service to each other in the contribution we make to the development, peace and justice/fairplay in Nigeria…
The election of Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila as the Speaker of the House of Representatives today, 11 June 2019, has been described by All Progressives Congress (APC) leader in Lagos State, Hon Adeyinka Adedoyin as a sign of further development, true federalism and respect for the rule of law in Nigeria. Adedoyin spoke at a gathering of religious leaders, politicians, women and youth leaders in Surulere. He said Gbajabiamila’s victory was well deserved as “it is the result of hard work, confidence and above all, God’s intervention.” “I consider it remarkable that the representative of Surulere Constituency 1 is occupying…
The trial of a former Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Executive Director on Projects, Tuoyo Omatsuli and Francis Momoh resumed on Monday 10th June, 2019 at the Federal High Court before Justice Saliu Seidu sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. At the proceedings, a prosecution witness, Ibinabo Micheal West told the Court how he transferred in tranches the total sum of N3.6 billion to the fourth defendant company, Building Associate Limited, owned by the second defendant, Francis Momoh on the instruction of the first defendant, Tuoyo Omasuli. Ibinabo West, a business man working in Port Harcourt further told the court that he…
Okhiemwen Roland Ekata aka (Zamani, Baron Wellington) was yesterday convicted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Benin Zonal Office before Justice A. A. Demi-Ajayi of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State. Ekata was arraigned on an amended one-count charge bordering on intent to defraud and impersonation an offence contrary to Section 484 of the Criminal Code Act CAP C38 of the Revised Edition (Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, and punishable under Section 484 of the same Act. The charge reads: “That you Okhiemwen Roland Ekata ‘M’ aka Zamani, Baron Wellington on or…
Save Lagos Group (SLG) has urged the newly sworn-in Executive Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to give priority to the Ikorodu communities in term of infrastructural development, saying that the said communities have been in low ebb with State Government attention. It made the call on Monday,in reaction with the recent statement credited to Governor Sanwo-Olu that the new administration in the State would not initiate new any project until after ensuring the completion of all the various abandoned projects of previous administration in the State. According to the signed statement by SLG’s Convener, Comrade Adeniyi, Alimi Sulaiman…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Benin Zonal office, last Friday, June 7, 2019 secured the conviction of Seventeen (17) illegal petroleum dealers before Justice Nnamdi O. Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State. The convicts are Shola Ilurimi, Monday Atie, Mene Endurance, Demeyin Omolere, Olushoji Juwon, Omotehinse John, Aroyo Ade, George Nwafor, Sheriff Prex, Efe Brown, Elijah Ibitoye and Lawal Samuel Olayemi. Others are Ganiyu Kabiru ,Balogun Ogooluwa, Agbaje Olokunjuwon, Japhet Onyenibe and Isogun Bode. Each of the defendant was arraigned on a separate one (1) count charge each bordering on illegal dealings in…
Investigations into the activities of twenty nine (29) suspected oil thieves alleged to be involved in illegal oil bunkering in River State has been started by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Port Harcourt’s Zonal Office. The suspects: Dickson Friday, Ibe Emeka, Saviour Friday, Akuro Clinton, Abraham Azuwa, Stephen Daniel, Sunday Abedingo, Samuel Smubai, Anazodo Emmanuel Ejike, Daminabo Apiah, Benneth Sobere, Emmanuel Gala, Ephraim Utono, Michael Jeremiah, Ibitimmy Azan, Rufus Animi, Atubi Precious. Others are Ojuboworima Ebenezer, Bobo Banigo, Habibu Mohammed, Yobo Okwata, Tammy Ibibo, John Tamumodiepiriye, Jack Joel, Ubiakamre Lucky, Nisidibe Adolfus, Victor Francis, Omotola Timothy and Okojie…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Boss, Ibrahim Magu, last week Thursday, June 6, 2019, called on statisticians in the country to utilise their research endeavours in the fight against corruption. Magu, made the call while receiving officials of the Professional Statistician Society of Nigeria, PSSN, at the EFCC headquarters, Abuja. The EFCC boss noted that statistics is essential in all aspects of the economy and urged everyone to be guided by statistics. “We will like to collaborate with you, as we have different fields reflected in the EFCC including statisticians and statistics is deployed in the work of…
Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki presided over the 8th Nigerian Senate for the last time on June 6, 2019 and took a graceful bow from the red chamber. Four years ago, Saraki upset permutations and predictions to edge out his former party, All Progressives Congress (APC) anointed candidate, Ahmed Lawan, for the coveted Senate President seat. That singular event, however, loomed large in the frosty account of his relationship with the APC, and his eventual exit from the party. Different narratives with criticisms of Dr. Saraki’s leadership of the Senate were frequent and in most cases, they blamed him for the…
President Muhammadu Buhari will tomorrow on June 11, 2019 declare open the National Democracy Day Anti-corruption Summit in Abuja. This summit was organised by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in collaboration with the Presidential Inauguration Planning Committee. The summit themed: “Curbing Electoral Spending: A panacea to Public Corruption” will hold at the Congress Hall, Transcorp Hilton, Abuja by 11 am. President Buhari will feature alongside the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame; Ghana’s Nana Akufo-Addo; Liberia’s George Weah, and, Macky Sall of Senegal. The Nigerian president and his African counterparts would at the occasion further lend their voices against…
A university lecturer, Moses Peter Adoga was on June 7, 2019 arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Makurdi Zonal Office before Justice Simon O. Aboki of the Nasarawa State High Court sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State. Adoga was arraigned on a one-count charge for dishonestly converting the sum of N19,765,200 (Nineteen Million, Seven Hundred and Sixty Five Thousand Two Hundred Naira), being a Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) grant to study for a PhD, to other purposes, an offence punishable under Section 312 of Penal Code Laws. The count charge reads: “That you Moses Peter Adoga sometime…
One Prince Ishola Olatunbosun has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged theft, fraud, criminal breach of trust and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N90,000,000.00 (Ninety Million Naira). According to a petition by one Mr Charlse Anyaokei, director Viscount Micro-finance Limited, Vancord Bureau-de-Change and Charblecom Concept Limited, filed by his legal team, Inedia Oweazim & Co, he was sometime ago, introduced to the suspect (Olatunbosun), a Chief Executive Officer of Dallas Halimgton Oil Limited with office in Leadway House, Central Business District Abuja, for the purpose of procuring United States Dollars (USD)…
Two Internet fraudsters, Johnson Okuselu, 23 and Saheed Olanrewaju, 25 have been convicted by Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, on Thursday June 6, 2019 to one year imprisonment without an option of fine for alleged internet scam. During the trial, an investigator of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Olamide Sadiq told the court that on April 28, based on reliable information concerning the suspicious activities of defendant about internet fraud, the operatives arrested the defendants at Ilorin International Airport. The witness said that their phones were searched and it was revealed that the defendants…
Toyin Saraki has been appointed to United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) International Steering Committee on Population and Development (ICPD) to catalyse new global and regional commitments 25 years after Cairo Summit. In a significant high-level global gender and rights commitment, Founder-President of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA) Toyin Saraki has accepted the official invitation of the United Nations Population Fund UNFPA, the United Nations’ foremost sexual and reproductive health rights agency, to join the International Steering Committee of the International Conference on Population and Development, taking place in Nairobi in November 2019. Convened by the Governments of Kenya and Denmark,…
Afenifere, a Pan-Yoruba social-cultural group, welcomes the decision of South West Governors to do something over the siege on Yorubaland by Fulani herdsmen /militia. The situation has degenerated to the point that our people are now afraid to travel on most of the roads in the zone as their safety cannot be guaranteed. But our enthusiasm was dampened by the insensitive, insulting and deeply annoying statement put out by the DAWN commission the Governors charged with the assignment. It is with pain in our hearts that we quote from the embarrassing publication. “2. DAWN Commission appeals to the general public…
Niger Delta leaders have decried marginalisation of Delta State and vowed on Friday to take up the marginalisation issue of Delta State with the highest authority in Nigeria. The leaders said there was no reason whatsoever for Delta State to be so treated compared with Bayelsa, Akwa-Ibom and Cross River in the appointment of Chairman and Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). At a meeting in Abuja, the leaders said it was the turn of Delta State to produce the chairman and managing director of the Commission. ‘’The NDDC Act stated that the office of the chairman…
BudgIT has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to privatize all government-owned refineries while also fully deregulate the petroleum downstream sector. According to the findings of our new policy brief “Inside Nigeria’s Local Refineries” Nigeria’s government-owned refineries in Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri incurred a cumulative loss of N32.8 billion in 2017 and N126.2 billion in 2018, making a total loss of N159 billion in the two most recent years alone. Moreso, with an average combined refining capacity utilization of merely 8.27% in 2018, the government-owned refineries are consistently unable to meet local demand, putting Nigeria in a precarious situation of…
The word “Discos”, to the average Lagos resident, now evokes anything but fun. Rather, it evokes the terrifying image of the bogeyman from the Power Distribution Companies (DisCos), who arrives at your homes monthly with his package of “double jeopardy” in the forms of electricity bills for energy you have most probably not used – called estimated billing – and an unending reluctance or incapacity to provide you with meters -or “pre-paid meters” in popular parlance- which, at least, enables consumers to pay for the quantum of energy consumed. Clearly, drawing from the drift of the national conversation on the…