A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has explained why courts across the country are currently shut down.
In a piece titled ‘Why the Courts are Locked’ received by our correspondent on Tuesday, Mr. Adegboruwa noted that the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) embarked on an industrial strike on April 6 over the issue of financial autonomy for the judiciary.
He said the Federal Government has largely complied with constitutional directives to grant financial autonomy to courts and the main issue is with state governments.
WHY THE COURTS ARE LOCKED
By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN
The past one week has been very challenging for judges, lawyers and litigants alike, as the court system became paralyzed all over the nation, due to the ongoing industrial action by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, over its demand for financial autonomy for the judiciary. It’s been a very delicate rope for lawyers to navigate through, being a matter of choosing bet
Daily Post Nigeria
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I have followed with keen interest the current debate over the existing Enugu State Gubernatorial Pensions Laws 2007, which was represented as a personal bill to the State House of Assembly for amendment. I have observed the genuine concerns being expressed by people on social media over this issue. I also observed acts of mischief and undue personal vendetta being advanced by cynics and pessimists, who usually cash in on such engagements to expose their unruliness, lack of character and sense of respect, as portrayed by one Ikem Okuhu.
May I, therefore, point out that the grundnorm of the Federation, i.e. the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) gave legal backing to the issue of pension for persons who have held office as the Governor or Deputy Governor of a State in Nigeria.
Gov Sanwo-Olu, Deputy finally take COVID-19 vaccine
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Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his Deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, on Friday took the first injection of the Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Sanwo-Olu took the injection at 3:03pm. while Hamzat was injected at about 3:10pm at the Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH), Yaba.
It can be recalled that the state government took delivery of the first consignment of 507,000 vaccines allocated to it by the Federal Government on Tuesday.
The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso and some health workers also took the jab of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the abduction of students of the Federal College of Forestry
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