Author: bibncollar

A member of the Nigerian Bar Association, Owerri Branch, Chigozie Victor Ezekiel, Esq., has fired a blistering open letter to the Chairman and Executive Committee of the branch, delivering a vote of no confidence in the Remuneration Order (Implementation and Enforcement) Committee and demanding its immediate dissolution. In the strongly-worded letter titled “Vote of No Confidence in the Remuneration Committee and Demand for Its Immediate Dissolution,” Ezekiel did not mince words in expressing his “grave disappointment” over the Committee’s consistent failure to fulfill its mandate — nearly two years after it was inaugurated. “I write this letter as a member…

Recently, President Bola Tinubu signed into law four radical tax reform bills that are expected to transform Nigeria’s fiscal and revenue framework. This is highly commendable as these Nigerian tax laws bring together many existing tax laws into one simplified and accessible document, making compliance easier for people and businesses. The four laws are the Nigeria Tax Act, 2025, the Nigeria Tax Administration Act, 2025, the Nigeria Revenue Service (Establishment) Act, 2025, and the Joint Revenue Board (Establishment) Act, 2025. Notwithstanding initial controversies, misconceptions and misunderstandings, these revolutionary tax legislations were passed by the National Assembly after extensive consultations with…

 It is common for people to Stand as Guarantors for Loans and also for Employees in a Company. It is also rife to see that there are cases where those loans are unpaid and the Employees engage in Stealing and the Guarantors are arrested albeit illegally. This Treatise Examines the Legality or otherwise of Guarantors being arrested and the nature of a Guaratorship. “A person who pledges payment or performance of a contract of another, but separately, as part of an independent contract with the obligee of the original contract.” In other words a Guarantor is a person who guarantees…

“On matters of security, the bulk (sic) stops at the President’s table.” Bola Ahmed Tinubu April 2014 On 26 January 2009, the Mamman Bello Ali died. He was the governor of Yobe State in north-east Nigeria. At around the same time, an anti-terrorism campaign by the government of Nigeria in Yobe State and its neighbour, Borno State, was about to make a murderous transition into a full-blown insurgency. As Governor Mamman Ali made his earthly transition in a Florida hospital, his deputy, Ibrahim Gaidam assumed office on the same day as the new governor of Yobe State. Today, as Minister…

Nigerians are reacting with a mix of outrage, sarcasm, and disbelief following revelations of alleged age falsification within the Imo State Judiciary—a scandal now drawing national attention and calling the integrity of judicial appointments into question. Prominent human rights advocate and former Chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, ignited the conversation on this morning with a scathing post on X (formerly Twitter): “The @njcNig has acted firmly on the allegations of age racketeering in the judiciary in Imo State, but Imo State is only an example. The #NJC has a duty to act more systemically. If…

Following the decisive outcome of the National Judicial Council (NJC) meeting held on 26 June 2025, where the Council compulsorily retired Hon. Justice T.N. Nzeukwu for presenting himself for swearing-in as Acting Chief Judge of Imo State despite being only the fourth most senior judge, reactions have poured in from legal practitioners within and beyond Imo State, reigniting the debate on accountability in judicial governance. Justice Nzeukwu’s removal came after months of legal and civic outcry against what was widely described as a constitutional aberration and executive hijack of the Imo Judiciary. The NJC found his conduct in flagrant violation…

As the dust settles on the compulsory retirement of nine judicial officers in Imo State over allegations of age falsification and misconduct, former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of Imo State, Chief Soronnadi Njoku, SAN, has called on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to expand its recent sanitization exercise beyond Imo to other states and all superior courts of record across the federation. Chief Njoku made this call in a chat with bibncollar.com this Saturday afternoon, stating that the NJC’s bold actions in Imo should mark the beginning of a nationwide judicial integrity campaign, rather than an isolated cleanup operation.…

About six years ago, my client, a UK-based Nigerian widow became the target of an audacious scheme orchestrated by a notorious syndicate of land grabbers operating under the guise of a land owning family in Ikeja/ Lagos. Their objective was clear: to dispossess her of her rightful ownership of three plots of land situated behind the former Tasty Fried Chicken building on Opebi Road, Ikeja. In a disturbing abuse of judicial process, these individuals approached a Magistrate Court then at Ikeja Local Airport, and by misrepresentation and fraudulent manipulation, secured a writ of possession against my client. It appeared their…

On June 16, the final day of my three-week visit to Nigeria, I met with my dear friend Malam Ali M. Ali, Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Malam Ali, who was my editor at Kano State Government’s Sunday Triumph in the late 1990s and with whom I had related since my first year at Bayero University in the early 1990s when he was features editor of the Daily Triumph, unexpectedly sprang a surprise: he asked me to deliver an impromptu talk to NAN editors on the pleasures and perils of artificial intelligence in journalism. Malam Ali,…

• Bars National Industrial Court Judge from Promotion for 3 Years • Issues warning/caution to five Judges The National Judicial Council at its 109th Meeting presided over by the Honourable, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Kudirat M. O. Kekere-Ekun, GCON, held on 25 June 2025 has recommended two Hon. Judges for appointment as Heads of Court for Ekiti and Yobe States, respectively. The Heads of Court are: Hon. Justice Adekanye Lekan Ogunmoye, Chief Judge, Ekiti State and Hon. Kadi Abba Mammadi as Grand Kadi, Yobe State. Similarly, Council has also recommended Mainasara Ibrahim Kogo Umar, Esq. to the…