The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has ascribed stability to the banking system as an advantage of adopting its soon to be launched digital currency, e-Naira.
Folashodun Shonubi, the bank’s Deputy Governor in charge of operations, made comments at a seminar hosted by the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria in Lagos, themed ‘Central Bank Digital Currencies: Insights for the 21st Century Banker.’
“The Central Bank in its implementation has ensured the e-Naira feeds our economy and provides greater value,” Shonubi said. “The Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) will also make it easier for the banking system to comply with existing laws such as anti-money laundering, customer protection against fraud and ensuring the safety and stability of the payment system.”
Shonubi stated that the e-Naira would prove safer than “privately issued cryptocurrency”, he adds that the launch of digital currency would be to complement existing payment pathways, thereby ensuring a stable system.
“For banks in developing nations, it will enhance their liquidity, efficiency in national remittances and challenge the high cost of remittances as the world rebounds in the post-pandemic. I am of the view that the era of CBDC promotes greater opportunities, and the central bank must be aware of the risks and mitigate them,” Shonubi said.
The CBN had earlier announced the launch of its digital currency (e-Naira) pilot program in October. He also spoke on the importance of e-Naira in Africa’s largest economy that included cross-border trade facilitation, financial inclusion, monetary policy effectiveness, improved payment efficiency, revenue tax collection, remittance improvement, and targeted social interventions.
It had been reported in August that the apex bank had chosen Barbados-based financial tech company, Bitt Inc., as the technical partner for the e-Naira project. Nigeria’s adoption of digital currency and trade follows a trend of central banks worldwide deliberating on whether to adopt digital currencies in their countries.
The e-Naira project came months after the CBN banned the trade of digital assets in the country, instructing banks to shut down accounts of customers involved in cryptocurrency transactions. The action was widely criticised as throwing the country of about 200 million back to the dark ages, especially as Nigerians had already gained worldwide recognition as critical cryptocurrency traders.
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has rejected an application seeking to stop the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its agents from holding its proposed National Convention slated for October 29 till 31, 2021.
Court documents seen show that the ex parte application was filed by associates of the suspended national chairman, Uche Secondus and former Ekiti Governor, Ayo Fayose.
The suit marked FHC/L/CS/1117/2021 has Eddy Olafeso, Rashidi Sunmonu, Bunmi Jenyo, Daisi Akintan and Wahab Owokoniran as plaintiffs.
Listed as defendants are the PDP acting National Chairman, Yemi Akinwonmi, deputy National Chairman (North) Suleiman Nazif, National Secretary Umar Tsauri, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and Attorney General of the Federation.
The plaintiffs also sought the court’s injunction to enable Secondus to resume duties as the party’s helmsman.
Justice Tijjani Ringim, however, swiftly declined the reliefs sought, maintaining that the plaintiffs put the defendants on notice.
There was a mild drama in court prior to Justice Ringim’s ruling. Chucks Ugo, a lawyer representing the PDP and Tsauri (PDP Secretary) had a friction with another lawyer, Oladayo Ilori, who also claimed he was representing all other party defendants except Secondus.
Justice Ringim, after taking conflicting arguments from both lawyers, concluded that the two legal counsels were in disharmony, hence, lacked the capacity to represent a client.
The presiding judge also said that since the suits against respondents were filed on September 2, the respondents were still within the legal time-frame to respond.
He therefore declared the motion unripe for hearing.
Secondus was first suspended from office by the Degema Division of the Rivers State High Court on August 23. But in a twist, he secured an exparte ruling from the Kebbi State High Court reinstating back to office on August 27.
A court in Cross River however sealed Mr Secondus’ fate, barring him from acting as PDP national chairman effective August 28, 2021.
The PDP then confirmed Akinwonmi, the deputy National Chairman (South) as the acting National Chairman, in line with the party’s Constitution.
A human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, said the Police operatives who tortured a fresh university graduate to death in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, had wanted to secretly dispose of the body.
It was “one telephone call” that prevented the police from doing so, Mr Effiong, a lawyer to the deceased student, said on Wednesday while briefing reporters in Uyo on the circumstances surrounding his death.
The briefing was organised by an NGO, Youth Alive Foundation, in collaboration with Community Stakeholders for Social Good, Akwa Ibom State Civil Society Forum, and Youth Advocacy Cluster, Akwa Ibom State, and was attended by some relatives of the deceased student.
Mmanti Umoh, a member of the #EndSars Panel in the state, was also at the briefing.
Kubiat Akpan, 28, was reported dead a few hours after he was arrested on August 29, tortured to death by the Police, according to an autopsy report.
The autopsy was ordered by the Commissioner of Police in the state, Amiengheme Andrew, after the lawyer, Mr Effiong, publicly accused the Police of killing Mr Akpan.
After Mr Akpan’s death, the Police Spokesperson, Odiko MacDon, said in a statement that the late student was a suspect in a robbery and cultism investigation, a claim Mr Effiong dismissed as false and irresponsible.
The deceased student, Kubiat Akpan
The late student had just graduated from the Department of Architecture, University of Uyo, and was waiting for mobilisation for the mandatory National Youth Service Corps scheme, before the sad incident.
The Police Commissioner had also ordered the arrest, detention, and questioning of an Assistant Superintendent of Police, Michael Joweigha, over the student’s death.
Phone Call That Changed The Course Of Things
When Mr Akpan was picked up by the Police at a popular store, Eni Stores, in Uyo, around 8p.m., he frantically made a phone call to an aunt, informing her of his arrest.
The aunt, who knows the officer that heads the division which arrested Mr Akpan, called the officer, Daniel Akpan, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, and politely requested him to look after the student, that she would be coming over to the station in the morning.
Unfortunately, that did not happen, as the student was tortured to death the night he was arrested.
“And what did they do after his death? They took his corpse to the mortuary and dumped it as an unknown corpse,” the lawyer, Mr Effiong, said at the press briefing.
Mr Effiong said the officers who took the corpse to the mortuary refused to identify themselves, a fact that has been confirmed by Premium Times.
“They recorded an entry at the mortuary as an unknown corpse who had an accident at Nsit Ibom Local Government Area of the state,” Mr Effiong said.
We have also confirmed that the officers lied to the mortuary attendant about where the corpse came from.
Nigerian Police officers on duty
“If not for that one call, because we are reliably informed that they (the Police) are now regretting that they allowed him (the late student) to make that call – to contact his aunt, we wouldn’t be sitting here today, we would have been looking for Kubiat as a missing person,” the lawyer said.
Footage from the CCTV camera at Eni Stores was played for reporters; it showed how several armed Police officers stormed the store to arrest the late student.
Relying on the footage and other information, Mr Effiong and the family of Mr Akpan said it was obvious that several officers, and not one person, tortured the student to death. They called on the Police authorities to bring to book all the officers who were involved in the incident.
They also said the head of the Police Division which arrested Mr Akpan is culpable in the student’s death, and, therefore, should be suspended immediately to give room for a smooth investigation.
The Police spokesperson, Mr MacDon, on Wednesday, granted an interview to a local radio station where he insisted that the late student was under criminal investigation.
Mr Effiong challenged the Police to mention the robbery incident that they say the student was involved in, who lodged a report against him and to whom. He also sought to know if the Police had ever gone to look for the student at his department in the university or ask his parents to turn him in for questioning.
The Youth Alive Foundation and other NGOs that organised the press briefing called on the Police and the Akwa Ibom State Government to ensure that justice is done for the late Mr Akpan and his family.
“The average Akwa Ibom parent now lives in constant fear that either their daughters, like Iniubong Umoren, would be raped and gruesomely murdered while on a job search or their sons, like Kubiat Isaac Akpan would be framed up, arrested, tortured and disposed by the men of the Police paid with their tax to protect them from harm,” the groups said in their position which was presented by the Programs Lead, Youth Alive Foundation, Akwa Ibom State, Joe Otu.
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kogi State Chapter, has condemned the killing of a Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) staffer, Chukwu Obiahu.
Chukwu was reportedly stoned to death on Tuesday evening by unknown assailants in Okene on his way back from work.
NUJ Chairman in Kogi, Adeiza Momoh-Jimoh, briefing newsmen at a news conference on Thursday in Lokoja, tasked media owners on provision of logistics for their staffers.
He asked security agencies to fish out the killer of his colleague and unravel the circumstances around the dastardly act.
“A young man, who went to work to do his legitimate duty, was killed on his way home. It is so sad; very unfortunate,” the chairman said.
Momoh-Jimoh expressed concern over the security situation in the country, saying it was becoming increasingly difficult for many people to go about their legitimate businesses without fear.
“At this juncture, I call on the Police to do everything possible to unravel the circumstances behind the death of that young man.
“It is becoming increasingly difficult for people to go about their legitimate businesses anywhere in Nigeria today.
“I want to commiserate with the family of the deceased and NTA staffers all over the country over the unfortunate incident,” he said.
The Chairman, however, urged governments at all levels to step up efforts at protecting Nigerians, including media professionals, as they go about their legitimate businesses.
He opined that if the deceased had been given adequate cover, the killing would probably have been averted.
“What we heard was that he closed late and he was going home unprotected. If somebody must be closing from work at that ungodly hour, arrangements should be made for him to go home safely.
“I want to call on media owners to provide vehicles to convey their officials to their various destinations to avert recurrence of this ugly incident,” Mr Momoh-Jimoh said.
Germany’s 2014 World Cup winner Jerome Boateng was on Thursday fined 1.8 million euros ($2 million) by a court in Munich after being found guilty of assaulting his former partner three years ago.
The huge fine handed down by Munich regional court comes after Boateng was convicted of willful body harm and insulting his former girlfriend, named as Sherin Senler.
After judge Kai Dingerdissen gave his verdict, Boateng hurried out of the courtroom, surrounded by bodyguards and drove off in a black SUV, which was pursued by photographers.
Prosecutor Stefanie Eckert had called for a suspended 18-month prison sentence and a fine of 1.5 million euros for what she described as a “toxic relationship”.
Boateng, 33, who signed for French club Lyon last week after a decade at Bayern Munich, attacked the mother of his twin daughters during a Caribbean holiday in 2018.
The defender had earlier denied the allegations as he testified for almost two hours.
Earlier, the footballer’s ex-girlfriend had told the court how he punched her, causing her to lose her breath for a moment during a heated argument while on a luxury holiday.
The incident happened in the weeks after the World Cup in Russia, when Boateng was in the Germany squad which was knocked out in the group stage.
Tensions were said to be running high between the former couple, who disagreed over living arrangements as Boateng chased a high-profile transfer to Paris Saint-Germain, which never materialised.
The court in Munich heard how an argument broke out over a game of cards.
– ‘Bit Me In The Head’ –
While giving evidence, Boateng’s former partner described how he “pressed against my eye with his thumb, bit me in the head and pulled me to the floor by my hair.”
She said Boateng, who is 1.90 metres (6ft 2in) tall, repeatedly insulted her and hit her on the back with “one strong punch and several light punches. That’s when I lost my breath for a moment.”
Boateng and his ex-girlfriend are also locked in an ongoing legal dispute over custody of their twin daughters, who currently live with the footballer.
He is the latest footballer to appear in a high-profile court case.
Manchester City defender, Benjamin Mendy, is currently held in custody in the UK ahead of a potential trial on rape and sexual assault charges.
– Turbulent Year –
The verdict in Munich is the latest tumultuous chapter in a turbulent year for Boateng.
His ex-girlfriend, influencer and model Kasia Lenhardt, was found dead having committed suicide in a Berlin flat in February while he was away playing for Bayern at the Club World Cup in Qatar.
He was immediately given permission to fly home after news of her death.
The 25-year-old died six days after Boateng finished their relationship. He then gave details of the break-up during a frank interview with top German daily Bild.
After making 363 appearances over 10 years at Bayern Munich, winning nine Bundesliga and two Champions League titles, Boateng’s contract was not extended when it expired in June. He has since joined Lyon.
He was a key part of the Germany squad which won a fourth World Cup crown in Brazil, but has not played for his country since being dropped by former national team coach Joachim Loew in March 2019.
Boateng still hopes to add to his 76 caps under Loew’s successor Hansi Flick, his former coach at Bayern Munich, who led the Bavarian giants to a treble of titles in 2019/20.
The United Nations has warned that banditry and incessant abduction of school children constitute great threat to Nigeria’s future, warning President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to tackle the security menace ravaging the country.
Edward Kallon, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, in a statement on the 2021 International Day to Protect Education from Attack, said “UN condemns attack on schools, calls for more efforts to protect students and ensure uninterrupted teaching and learning.”
“Children are traumatised; parents are scared; teachers and school administrators are afraid; attacks on schools are gradually spreading to areas not known to insurgencies.
With education under attack, the collective future of Nigeria is under threat. This must stop now!” Mr Kallon said.
Mr Kallon said further: “whenever teaching and learning is disrupted, the impact on human capital development is enormous as the recovery period is always tortuous and longer than the length of the initial disruption.”
Lamenting increasing number of out-of-school children, Mr Kallon said “In the last academic year, it is estimated that 1.3 million children have been impacted by attacks or abductions at schools in Nigeria.”
“Across the North-East region alone, over 600,000 children remain out of school and some 1.1 million need educational support to stay in school. This has all been compounded by the setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” he added.
UN’s warning comes amidst incessant coordinated killings and kidnapping of schoolchildren across Kaduna, Kebbi, Katsina, Niger and Zamfara State, forcing closure of schools in the respective states.
Bandits have continued to be brazen in their attacks, downing Air Force fighter jetin July and also invading the Nigerian Defence Academy, killing three and abducting one in August.
Garba Shehu, spokesman to the President, however, dismissed attack on NDA as a politically motivated move aimed at rubbishing Mr Buhari regime.
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday passed the Value Added Tax Bill, with Speaker Mudashiru Obasa directing the Acting Clerk of the House, Mr. Olalekan Onafeko, to transmit a clean copy to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for assent.
The House also passed the bill that prohibits open cattle grazing in the state.
The two bills were passed after unanimous votes by the lawmakers at the sitting where the bills were read the third time.
Immediately after their passage, Speaker Obasa commended his colleagues for their passion to see that the state continues to grow.
“I thank you all for this historic exercise,” Obasa said.
The House had held separate public hearings on the bills on Wednesday, with stakeholders expressing support.
As the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, bicker over rights to collect Value Added Tax, the former has made moves to legally own the right.
The FIRS, in a letter to the National Assembly, asked the legislature to include collection of VAT in the exclusive legislative list.
The letter, dated June 1, also seeks the parliament’s approval of the establishment of the Federal Revenue Court of Nigeria.
This comes amidst moves by the Rivers State Government to stop the federal government from collecting VAT from the state.
Background
The FIRS has been in charge of VAT collection, which is then shared among the federal, state and local governments.
Rivers, Lagos and four other states are responsible for about 80 per cent of VAT collected in Nigeria.
A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt on August 10, ruled that it was the right of the Rivers Government to receive VAT in the state – restraining the FIRS from collecting VAT and personal income tax in Rivers State.
The state had argued that it was against the constitution to generate VAT that is later shared to other states.
The FIRS also failed to obtain a stay of execution it sought to prevent the state government from enforcing the verdict. This is even as the agency appealed the ruling.
By this judgement, the Rivers State is cleared to enforce its newly passed VAT Act for now.
A similar bill just scaled second reading at the Lagos State assembly on Monday.
The Letter
In a bid to override the Rivers State Government, the FIRS wrote to the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Idris Wase, to vest, exclusively, all adjudication of tax disputes, including federal tax laws, companies income tax, petroleum tax, income tax, capital gain tax, stamp duty, VAT, taxes, levies and other laws, regulations, proclamations, government notices and rules on it.
Mr Wase is the Chairman of the House Ad-hoc Committee on Constitution Review.
The letter is titled, ‘Request for sponsorship of a bill for the establishment of the proposed Federal Revenue Court of Nigeria and the insertion of Value Added Tax under item 58 of the exclusive legislative list’.
In the communication, the agency sought the amendment of Section 251 (1) (b) of the Constitution of the FRN 1999 (amended) to remove the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal High Court only on anything connected or related to federal tax matters since the same would be vested on the proposed federal revenue court.
“The Federal Inland Revenue Service also proposes for the insertion of value added tax immediately after Stamp Duties under item 58 part II of 2nd schedule of the 1999 Constitution of the FRN.
“The Federal Inland Revenue Service appreciates the maximum cooperation and support we are receiving from your good office on tax matters generally. This has boosted our morale and determination to do more for the government in tax revenue generation.
“The FIRS therefore wishes to further request that the House of Representatives consider the request for the establishment of the Federal Revenue Court,” part of the letter read.
The FIRS also noted that Item 59 of the Exclusive Legislative List Part 1, 2nd Schedule to the Constitution of the FRN 1999 as amended vests the powers to make laws on anything related to tax matters in Nigeria, on the National Assembly.
While the agency stated that the Federal Revenue Court was established by the promulgation of the Federal Revenue Court Decree No.13 1973 and later renamed to Federal High Court, it said the amended Section 7 of the Federal High Court Act (1991), conferred exclusive jurisdiction on the Federal High Court in relation to tax matters amongst others.
“Section 228(1) and 230(1) was further re-enacted as Section 251(1) (a) to (s), of the Constitution of FRN 1999.
“The FIRS hereby proposes for the insertion of Section 254(G) to 254 (L) in the 1999 Constitution of the FRN to provide for the establishment of Federal Revenue Court, the appointment of Chief Judge, power to make rules for the proceedings, the appointment of judges of FRC and the exclusive jurisdiction of FRC on federal tax matters.”
FIRS Denies
But in a turn of events, the FIRS has feigned ignorance over the letter or its attempt to include collection of VAT in the exclusive legislative list.
The Group Lead, Special Tax Operation Group of the FIRS, Matthew Gbonjubola, in a press briefing on Wednesday, said the FIRS was unaware of the existence of such bill as it was not being sponsored by the organisation, ICIR reports.
“I am not aware that FIRS has presented any bill to the National Assembly to request for any social media tax and I can tell you, on behalf of my Executive Chairman, very clearly that this is not from us. So, if there is any such bill at the National Assembly, the FIRS is not the sponsor and we have not seen it,” he said.
Wike Talks Tough
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on his part, has vowed not to relent in the “fight.”
The Governor on Wednesday, insisted that the state will go ahead to enforce the provisions of the VAT Act.
While he insisted that “Rivers money is not meant for Abuja people but for the development of his state”, he threatened to shut down FIRS offices in the state should the “bullying” continue.
He made this statement at a meeting of concerned parties on Wednesday, in Port Harcourt while addressing Shell Petroleum Development Company and other representatives of oil companies and business owners in the state.
The event was televised live on Channels TV.
Mr Wike called for an end to what he described as the injustice in the country.
“Rivers State generated N15bn in June 2021 but got N4.7bn while Kano produced N2.8bn in June but Kano also got N2.8bn. Sometimes you don’t want to believe these things exist.
“…I cannot continue to beg the Federal Government for what belongs to his state.
“People say that let heaven not fall but sometimes I believe that heaven should come down so that everybody will rest…When we do the right thing, heaven is at peace. So, the right thing must be done at all times,” he said.
It is not clear whether the National Assembly will oblige the request of the FIRS as the lawmakers are currently on recess and expected to resume plenary next Tuesday.
Manchester City Women suffered an agonising defeat to Real Madrid to crash out of the Champions League.
Claudia Zornoza’s first-half goal sent Madrid through to the group stage 2-1 on aggregate after a 1-0 win at the Academy Stadium.
Hayley Raso hit the bar and Ellen White had a header cleared off the line as City dominated much of the game.
After a 1-1 draw in the first leg in Spain, City, who reached the quarter-finals last season, looked for an early goal and Steph Houghton headed wide from a corner.
The hosts were the better side but almost fell behind when Nahikari Garcia steered in after squeezing clear, only to be denied by the offside flag.
But Madrid grabbed the lead on the night and on aggregate just before the break when City failed to clear a corner which fell to an unmarked Zornoza and she drilled in a deflected effort beyond Karima Taieb.
The hosts should have levelled 11 minutes into the second half when White seized on a Madrid mistake and squared to Caroline Weir but the Scotland international failed to make contact with the goal gaping.
Nine minutes later, City again came closer to a leveller when Raso wriggled into the box before hitting the bar.
The hosts continued to dominate and White’s header was cleared off the line with 11 minutes left but they could not final a leveller to force extra-time.
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) has released a shortlist of 130 lawyers qualified for the award of the highly coveted Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) rank for 2021.
Hajo Bello, the Acting Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, who doubles as the secretary of the LPPC, issued the notice on Wednesday.
She said the list comprising 95 lawyers in the advocate category and 35 in the academy category was drawn after the first stage of the appointment process.
“The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee by this notice makes an announcement on the shortlisted candidates that qualified after both the advocate filtration stages and academic pre-qualification exercise, preparatory to the award of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria for the year 2021,” the notice stated in part.
All qualified candidates shortlisted were “graded under the category system” of the LPPC, Ms Bello said.
The final list of the successful ones among the shortlisted candidates will be announced in October.
Ms Bello invited members of the public “to comment on the integrity, reputation and competence” of the shortlisted candidates.
All of such comments must reach the LPPC secretariat or the committee’s email not later than 4p.m. on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, she said.
The LPPC, a body chaired by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and established to give the prestigious rank to deserving lawyers annually is domiciled at the Supreme Court.
The notice added that “any complaint (s) presented to the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee must be accompanied with a verifying affidavit deposed to before a court of record in Nigeria”.
Some of the shortlisted candidates include: the Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice of Ekiti State, Olawale Fapohunda, and a Prosecutor with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Rotimi Oyedepo.
Also on the list are, the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Tony Ojukwu; a police prosecutor, Simon Lough, and lawyers with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Sulayman Olawale, and Sani Mohammed.
See the full list:
LEGAL PRACTITIONERS PRIVILEGES COMMITTEE
SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA THREE ARMS ZONE, SUPREME COURT COMPLEX, P.M.B. 308, ABUJA, NIGERIA Tel: 09-2344762
NOTICE OF CANDIDATES SHORTLISTED FOR CONSIDERATION FOR THE CONFERMENT OF THE RANK OF SENIOR ADVOCATE OF NIGERIA – 2021 (PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH 12 (2) AND 20 OF THE LEGAL PRACTITIONERS’ PRIVILEGES COMMITTEE GUIDELINES 2018)
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee by this notice makes an announcement on the shortlisted candidates that qualified after both the advocate filtration stages and academic pre-qualification exercise, preparatory to the award of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria for the year 2021.
2. All qualified candidates shortlisted are graded under the category system of the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee.
3. They are:
LIST OF SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES FOR THE RANK OF SENIOR ADVOCATE OF NIGERIA (SAN) ADVOCATE CATEGORY FOR 2021
1. OFFIA FELIX OTA, ESQ.
2. NWAFOR-ORIZU ORJI, ESQ.
3. ADENIYI ANTHONY ADEMUYIWA, ESQ.
4. UMEH PHILIP NDUBUISI EVARISTUS, ESQ.
5. OVRAWAH OGAGA, ESQ.
6. UGBODUMA JOHNSON TARIGHO OMOPHE, ESQ.
7. AFUBA PETER AGUIGOM, ESQ.
8. ODIONU JOHNSON, ESQ.
9. ABUBAKAR ADAMU, ESQ.
10. AJOSE-ADEOGUN OLAOTAN OLUSEGUN, ESQ.
11. WEST-IDAHOSA EHIOGIE, ESQ.
12. AWA UCHE SUNDAY, ESQ.
13. MEKWUNYE CHARLES DUMBIRI, ESQ.
14. OGUEJIOFOR CHARLES CHUKWUMA, ESQ.
15. OLADOJA TAJUDEEN OLASENI, ESQ.
16. AKARAIWE IKEAZOR AJOVI, ESQ.
17. OMOTOSHO FRANCIS, ESQ.
18. ONUZULIKE FELIX ANAYO, ESQ.
19. OKO-JAJA LAWRENCE SUNDAY, ESQ.
20. OSHOMEGIE CHRISTOPHER AGBOMEIRHE, SUNDAY, ESQ.
LIST OF SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES FOR THE RANK OF SENIOR ADVOCATE OF NIGERIA (SAN) ACADEMIC CATEGORY FOR 2021
1. PROF. OYEWO AJAGBE TORIOLA
2. PROF. OMOROGBE OLUYINKA OSAYAME
3. DR.OKAFOR KATHLEEN EBELECHUKWU
4. PROF. NWEBO OSY EZECHUKWUNYERE
5. PROF. SHOLANKE OLADIPO OLUSEGUN
6. PROF. DAODOLA RASHEED JIMOH
7. DR. AJALA TAIWO FRANCIS
8. OJUKWU ANTHONY OKECHUKWU, ESQ.
9. PROF. SODIPO BANKOLE ADEKUNLE AKINTOYE
10. DR. WIGWE CHRISTIAN CHIZINDU
11. DR.AGBONIKA JOSEPHINE ALADI ACHOR
12. PROF. AHMADU MOHAMMED LAWAL
13. PROFOLUDAYO GABRIEL AMOKAYE
14. PROF. SHAAKAA AKKARREN SAMUEL
15. PROF. CHUKWU LAWRENCE OBINNA COLLINS
16. DR. EFEVWERHAN DAVID IGHOJOHWEGBA
17. DR. ABILA VENUS ELIJAH SYLVANUS
18. PROF. IMBWASEH AKAA TYOZUA
19. PROF. KENEN EMMANUEL AYANGARUMUN
20. PROF. SANNI ABIOLA OLAITAN
21. PROF. ABDULLAHI SHEHU ZURU
22. PROF. UMENWEKE MESHACH NNAMA
23. BRAITHWAITE ABIMBOLA ONIKEPO, ESQ.
24. PROF. OMOREGIE EDOBA BRIGHT
25. PROF. MAIYAKI THEODORE BALA
26. PROF. ISAH MOHAMMED
27. DR. ONI BABATUNDE ADETUNJI
28. DR. AGABA JAMES ATTA
29. PROF. ABDULQADIR IBRAHIM ABIKAN
30. PROF. GBADAMOSI OLAIDE ABASS
31. PROF DAWUD KAMAL ALHAJI
32. PROF. ADBULLAHI IBRAHIM
33. DR. ABUBAKAR ABDULKARIM KANA
34. DR. OKORIE CHIMEZIE KINGSLEY
35. DR. AMADI JERRY
4. The General Public is at liberty to comment on the integrity, reputation and competence of the above candidates.
5. However, any complaint (s) presented to the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee must be accompanied with a verifying affidavit deposed to before a Court of Record in Nigeria.
6. Please, be informed that in relation to paragraph 12 {2} of the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee Guidelines, 2018, Twenty copies of such comments or complaints must be received at the office of the Secretary, Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee not later than 4.00pm on Tuesday 28th September, 2021 Or email: enquirieslppcnigeria@gmail.com
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