Search for: "Attorney General of Nigeria"
Results 1 - 20
of 352
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
3 Jul 2014, 2:06 pm
[JURIST] The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) [advocacy website] on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in the Federal High Court of Nigeria [official website] against Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, Attorney General Muhammed Adoke [official profiles] and Muhammed Abacha, son of Nigeria's former de facto President Sani Abacha [Independent obituary]. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 1:52 pm
[JURIST] The Nigeria Ebonyi State Commissioner of Justice and the Attorney General, Ben Igwenyi, called Monday for the establishment of a special court to hear corruption cases. [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 2:55 pm
""The Attorney-General informed the Joint Committee that he had made a request in accordance with the provisions of Article I(1) of the Treaty but that the government of the United States of America had responded invoking Article III of the Treaty that in view of the fact that investigation was still ongoing, the United States of America was unable to oblige Nigeria with the requested information. [read post]
27 Sep 2011, 9:49 am
Earlier this month, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. [read post]
25 Jun 2021, 8:45 am
Nigerian Attorney General Abubakar Malami went even further, directing the immediate prosecution of offenders of the Federal Government ban on Twitter operations in Nigeria. [read post]
5 Jan 2021, 12:05 pm
The American Bar Association (ABA) said last month that Sowore’s prosecution involved “severe rights violations as a result of misconduct on the part of the authorities–specifically, the Department of Security Services (DSS) and the Attorney General of the Federation (Nigeria’s Attorney General or AGF). [read post]
16 Sep 2014, 4:00 am
“…the Nigerian music industry is aware that the order to activate the Private Copy Levy has since been made by the Attorney-General of the Federation & Minister of Justice, Mr. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 9:24 am
Up till April 2017 when Nigeria’s Attorney-General exercised his powers to approve the Memorandum and Articles of Association of Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN) and direct the issuance of a CMO licence to MCSN, COSON has operated as a sole collecting society approved for musical works and sound recordings in Nigeria. [read post]
23 Feb 2024, 10:00 am
In a January Universal Periodic Review, a UN Human Rights Council mechanism enabling member states to undergo peer review of their human rights affairs, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Lateef Fagbemi claimed that Nigeria remains one of the safest places for journalists in Africa. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 2:20 am
[Is this somewhat like the Attorney-General being authorised to consent to incorporation of companies limited by guarantee (under the old Companies and Allied Matters Act) or having the Attorney-General issue directives to the Nigerian Copyright Commission regarding registration of Collective Management Organisations under the Copyright Act? [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 3:34 pm
Nok statues repatriated to Nigeria. [read post]
4 Sep 2014, 2:38 pm
The registration form is pretty simple and straight-forward, at least for a copyright attorney. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 8:25 am
By Being an Accredited agent of the Registry, you have an edge over other attorneys and stakeholders that are not accredited. [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 6:35 am
Kellogg Brown & Root LLC (KBR), a global engineering, construction and services company based in Houston, pleaded guilty today to charges related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for its participation in a decade-long scheme to bribe Nigerian government officials to obtain engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. [read post]
27 Aug 2012, 10:07 am
We share your concerns about the impact of extremist violence on Nigeria’s democratic progress and security in general. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 6:41 am
CanadaTeenager facing terrorism-related charges for robbery to help terrorists, Canadian PressTeenager charged with kidnapping hotel employee and then crashing car into bank, Canadian PressRally held outside B.C. court for murdered aboriginal mother of boy, Canadian PressUnited StatesRepublican attorney general joins multi-state deportation lawsuit, ReutersVeterans get housing under lawsuit settlement against Department of Veterans Affairs, ReutersInternationalEgyptian poet on… [read post]
15 May 2007, 2:53 am
State Attorney General Oluyemi Osinbajo announced the firings of 22 magistrates and three judges as part of a state and nation-wide attempt to crack down on judicial corruption using new [read post]
21 Jul 2010, 4:15 am
In Nigeria earlier this month, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP) forwarded to the Attorney General for possible prosecution its findings that Ahmed Sani Yerima, former governor of Zamfara state and a member of the Nigerian Senate, violated the Nigerian Child Rights Act of 2003 when he married a 13-year old Egyptian girl after paying a very large dowry. [read post]
29 May 2012, 10:29 am
allAfrica.com on May 29, 2012 released the following: “BY DAVIDSON IRIEKPEN Justice James Tsoho of the Federal High Court in Lagos Monday granted the request of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. [read post]
6 Jun 2013, 1:45 pm
A valid trademark can only become generic if the public misuses the mark sufficiently for the mark to become the generic name for the product (in this case, ARIEL would have to become the name of every detergent). Global Soap argued that if there has been use of the ARIEL mark, such use was by The Procter and Gamble Company and not the registered proprietor in Nigeria – Procter and Gamble Nigeria Limited. [read post]
