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  The Law Week committee members of the NBA BWARI BRANCH (CRADLE BAR) paid a courtesy visit to Senator Shehu Sani ( Former Senator representing Kaduna Central) on Friday the 6th of May, 2022 in preparation for the forthcoming Law Week in June.   The purpose of the courtesy call was to convey the appreciation of the branch for the acceptance of the Distinguished Senator to serve as the Keynote Speaker at the opening ceremony of the forthcoming NBA Bwari Branch Law Week 2022 themed: “The State of The Nation: Where Are The Lawyers?” commencing on the 6th of June, 2022 and scheduled to take place at GADIS EVENT CENTRE, Dutse , FCT, Abuja .   In accepting to play the role as a keynote speaker, the Distinguished Senator expressed his enthusiasm about the chosen topic of discussion given the current state of the nation. The Distinguished Senator further stated that there could be no better time for the chosen topic than now as the general public relies on lawyers as defenders of...

 Supreme Court rules in favour of Rivers against Imo on Disputed Oil Wells The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Rivers state over the disputed 17 oil wells with Imo state and has ended the political arrangement on the sharing of revenue. In its verdict delivered on Friday, the Supreme court decided that the oil wells located in Ndoni and Egbema communities belong to Rivers State. There was previously a political arrangement put in place by the federal government for the revenue from the disputed wells to be shared equally between the two states. However, when Emeka Ihedioha became governor in 2019, a presidential memo directed that all the revenue should go to Imo. The Rivers state government swiftly filed a suit against the presidential directive. This ruling by the Court has now put an end to the equal sharing of the revenue from the oil wells with everything now going to Rivers.

 UK govt recovers $23m Abacha loot  Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has recovered more than $23 million stolen from Nigeria by the country’s late military dictator Sani Abacha. NCA, in a statement on Thursday, May 5, 2022, said the funds were retrieved as part of a wider pool of funds identified by the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) as having been stolen out of Nigeria in the 1990s by Mr Abacha and his accomplices. According to the statement posted on the U.K.’s crime agency website, the funds were recovered after seven years of litigation and international negotiation pursued by the NCA, at the request of the Department of Justice. It said the funds have now been transferred to the Home Office of the UK for onward transmission to the US Department of Justice Billy Beattie, Asset Denial Senior Manager at the NCA said, “The NCA is committed to ensuring that the UK is not a safe haven for criminals to launder their proceeds of crime, and civil recovery of asse...