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By Ugonne Uzoma (08065838963)
Owerri, Dec. 22, 2020 The Imo House of Assembly on Tuesday amended the Imo State Administration of Criminal Justice Law No. 2 of 2020 and three other Executive Bills.
The bills, which were sponsored by the Deputy Majority Leader of the house, Mr Emeka Nduka, (APC Ehime Mbano), received accelerated hearing by the house.
Naija247news reports that the amended sections included 472, 484 and 485.
Section 484 of the law was deleted in the amended version.
The section previously read: “where a person is ordered to be detained at the governor’s pleasure, such a person shall be liable to be detained in such place and under such conditions as the governor may direct and whilst so detained, shall be deemed to be in legal custody,’’
Muhammadu Buhari
Nseobong Okon-Ekong and Udora Orizu examine specific instances of Nigerian politicians and corporate entities who went against the grain on issues of national importance in 2020 and contributed to the surpirses, confussion, horror and suffering of the larger public
President Muhammadu Buhari
As President and Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces, President Muhammadu Buhari takes most of the heat, whenever things go wrong in the country. Be it security, health, economy and governance. As the first citizen, he is expected to keep the country in order and ensure effective and efficient governance.
The Buhari-led administration is freuqently pummeled for failure to deliver on its promises to Nigerians.
The Keynote Address delivered last week by Funke Aboyade, SAN FCIArb, at the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Ibadan Branch 2020 Law Week
âWe are this world. Its next generation. If youâre not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?â â Claudia Gray
Introduction
The topic is apt for these troubled times, as is the quote above. I hope to provoke, to engage, to challenge, to educate not just the audience but also myself, to ginger, to proffer solutions.
Questions, Questions
I begin with perhaps provocative questions. Why Lawyers as frontline advocates, what qualifies us? Put less politely, who do we think we are? Who really are the frontline advocates? Are we really the salt of the earth, as we like to think? Or have we lost our saltiness, no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot? This, after all, is a country where weâve gone from the days when people took off their shoes, tiptoed and spoke in whispers j