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A Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja has discharged and acquitted a legal practitioner, Kole Bello and three others who were prosecuted by the Lagos State Government over the sale of a dead woman’s property. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo discharged the lawyer and other defendants on the ground that the prosecution failed to prove its case against them. The ...

Adapted from the Judgment of Bage, JSC: Anthony Ojigho v. NBA & LPDC (2019) LPELR-46895(SC); [2019] 9 NWLR (Pt. 1678) 399. A lawyer, Mr. Anthony Ojigho, was petitioned for fraudulently increasing the price of a property which the Petitioner (Banjo Onanubi) paid the vendor through the lawyer. It was alleged that the lawyer fraudulently induced the Petitioner into paying N40 ...

Vanguard reports that a legal practitioner, Mr. Destiny Takon has petitioned Governor Akinwunmi Ambode over the travails of Coker estate residents in Oworonshoki, Lagos. By a deed of conveyance dated June 6, 1970, the late Chief Coker was said to have taken possession of over 80 acres of land at Oworonshoki and Ifako-Gbagada, Lagos, which was registered in his name. ...