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How LGs should exercise constitutional powers – Lawyers

Following the recent judgment of an FCT High Court upholding the powers of Local Government Areas to exercise their constitutional functions, lawyers

$322.5m Abacha loot: N6bn shared to beneficiaries

Above N6 billion has been paid from the $322.5m recovered from late former Head of State, Sani Abacha, according to the fund’s monitors. The Executive

Court orders finance ministry, CBN to deduct N53bn LG funds to pay firm

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to deduct N53 billion from local gover

How lawyers, litigants embarrass judges over bribery

A judge of the Ogun State High Court has drawn the attention of the Nigerian Bar Association’s (NBA) Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC)

Clients and patients

Client and patient are terms used to qualify a person receiving service from a legal or medical practitioner respectively. Although some medical docto