JUSTUS EDIM

In Igbo Customary Law, succession and inheritance are taken for granted as enuring by the principle of primogeniture. In other words, the eldest male child (Okpala or Diokpa) of the intestate has a sole claim to the estate of the deceased. Hence, female children do not inherit their deceased parents. Against this backdrop, a suit arose at a Lagos State High Court. It was instituted by one of the daughters of the deceased Lazarus Ogbonnaya Ukeje, who challenged the grant of Letters of Administration to her mother (and widow of the deceased) and her brother to her exclusion. She maintained that being a child of the deceased, the grant was discriminatory having offended section 42 (2) of the 1999 Constitution. Appealing against the decision of the Lagos High Court that found in favour of the Claimant, the Defendants/Appellants cited Igbo Customary Law as the basis for which she was disinherited. The Court of Appeal affirmed the ruling of the lower court. Further dissatisfied, the Appellan...

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COLLUSION AMONG CBN,COMMERCIAL BANKS,WESTERN UNION,MONEYGRAM,ETC TO KILL THE NAIRA INSTALMENTALLY 🤔!!! By Chief Anthony Ani,FCA,Former Minister Of Finance. "A MATTER OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY DEMANDING OUR DEAR PRESIDENT BUHARI'S URGENT ACTION! "RE: $BILLION DIASPORA REMITTANCES: WHERE ARE THE  DOLLARS?" The above question was posed in an article in The PUNCH newspaper edition of September 9, 2019, by columnist Henry Boyo. I have been a daily reader of The PUNCH for the past 10 years and I have not yet, read any comments from anyone on this question. There is a need to discuss this issue, as it appears that there is massive foreign exchange laundering going on in our banks. As the architect of the Diaspora remittances in 1996, I am naturally concerned at the abuses disclosed by Boyo. When in 1995, we at the Ministry of Finance reviewed the country’s sources of foreign revenues, we found out that nothing was coming in from Nigerians in the Diaspora, whereas India and Jam...

BY REV Fr Ojo Joe. Let me quickly say the simple answer to the above question is no. But then, how come we see, many times wedding celebration of couples who are pregnant or have even given birth in the Catholic church? The answer to this question forms the basis of this write up. Since this article is meant to answer non catholics who want to know about catholics and catholics who want to know more about their Faith, I have taken for myself the authority of Jesus as written in the scripture only, that we all may come to know that, such wedding is not abomination to God, but a healing for damage of sin already committed. The Catholic church preaches strongly against sex before marriage. In fact, it is wrong for a man and woman to live together if they are not married. So if sex is a sin before marriage, then there should not be pregnancy in the first place. But then if the couple, for any reason we know not, had sex and it leads to pregnancy, The Church is careful not to give penalty t...

The only way you can survive is if you continuously transform into something else... - Ginni Rometty Introduction For Nigeria, the 21st century came a bit too fast. As at 2000, merely 19 years ago, there were only so many mobile phones in Nigeria. I remember my dad getting his first 'handset’ in 2001! Between then and now, there’s been series of exponential changes to our reality, made possible by technology and the globalisation that characterizes these times.   We now live in the age of fantastic gadgets and cutting-edge technological solutions. Digital Technology, Machine Learning, Internet of Things, FinTech, Blockchain, AI etc. are the savvy buzzwords of today's contemporary conversations and they promise to further change the dynamic as we know it. The problem is, for us Lawyers, reality as it is today, is still not yet fully in our grasp, how much more about another wave of change. It is by now stock to say that law affects all facets of societal life; this much is easi...

What is the life we all desire? It is indeed common knowledge that everyone wants to be successful, everyone want to live their dreams and mentain steady growth, but the challenge is that they do not know what path to choose,  and even in chosen fields they are bedeviled with doubt of choosing the right career, some are  are roped in by results from poor decisions. It is also reality that we have desires and wants but, not everyone gets what they aspire and yearn for. An example is the place Hollywood, where a chunk of people visit every day and desire to live in to fulfill their dreams, but the sad truth is-off course not everyone can live at Hollywood because Hollywood won't contain all that yearn to go there.  In order to succeed we have to therefore learn what others do differently, we have to learn how they have attained the good life, through which they have earned societal respect, the personae and that true state of satisfaction we all desire. Truth therefore is...