Court Dissolves 5-year-old Marriage Because Husband Feeds Children Alcohol

Law & JusticeNewsCourt Dissolves 5-year-old Marriage Because Husband Feeds Children Alcohol

PilotnewsJune 26, 2020

A Customary Court in Ibadan on Friday dissolved a five-year-old marriage between Mufuliat Soremekun and Abas, her husband, on grounds that he feeds his children with alcoholic beverages. In her petition, Soremekun, a fashion designer had told the court that she gave up on the marriage because her husband had made up his mind to turn their two children to alcoholics. The President of the court, Chief Ademola Odunade, who led two other Arbitrators; Alhaji...

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Group Seeks Legislation to Forbid Forceful Takeover of Widows’ Inheritance

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaGroup Seeks Legislation to Forbid Forceful Takeover of Widows’ Inheritance

PilotnewsJune 25, 2020

An advocacy group on Wednesday pleaded with the National Assembly to enact legislation, forbidding forceful takeover of the inheritance of widows in the country. Mrs. Atinuke Owolabi, founder of the Touch of Love and Lifting Hands Foundation, made the appeal at a rally in Ijaiye, near Ikeja, to mark the 2020 International Widows’ Day. She lamented that widows, numbering about 258 million worldwide, had been at the receiving end of practices that had resulted in...

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Rape Allegation: Lawyers Demand Arrest of Popular Artiste D’Banj

Law & JusticePeopleRape Allegation: Lawyers Demand Arrest of Popular Artiste D’Banj

PilotnewsJune 24, 2020

The Coalition of Public Interests Lawyers and Advocates (COPA) has called for the arrest of popular Nigerian artiste Mr. Oladapo Oyebanjo, aka D’Banj, following allegation of rape against him by Miss Seyitan Tayo. The coalition made the call on Wednesday in a statement issued by Mr Patrick Odey, Director, Human Rights and Gender, at COPA. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the alleged sexual assault happened in 2018 and D’Banj had since denied...

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CJN Swears in Dongban-Mensem as President, Court of Appeal

Law & JusticeUnited StatesCJN Swears in Dongban-Mensem as President, Court of Appeal

PilotnewsJune 19, 2020

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad on Friday swore in Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, as the substantive President of the Court of Appeal. Muhammed challenged the new president to live up to expectations by maintaining cordial relationship with her colleagues on the Appeal court bench. Specifically, the CJN charged Justice Dongban-Mensem, who is the second female President to be appointed to ensure regular meetings with Presiding Justices in all divisions of the court...

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Court Orders Convict to Sweep Court Premises for 1 Month for Stealing 15 tvs, Laptops

Law & JusticeCourt Orders Convict to Sweep Court Premises for 1 Month for Stealing 15 tvs, Laptops

PilotnewsJune 17, 2020

An Area Court in Nyanya, FCT, on Wednesday ordered a 27-year-old man, Isaac Samuel, to sweep the court premises for one month for stealing 15 plasma television and laptops. The Judge, Abdullahi Ogedengbe, sentenced Samuel after he pleaded guilty to public incitement. Ogedengbe, however, gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N5,000. Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Mr. D.F. Abba told the court that sometimes in 2018, the convict conspired with others now...

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Dabiri-Erewa Tasks US Govt on Killing of Nigerian-American Salau

Foreign PolicyLaw & JusticeNigeriaDabiri-Erewa Tasks US Govt on Killing of Nigerian-American Salau

PilotnewsJune 16, 2020

Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), on Monday called on the government of the United States to ensure a thorough investigation in the alleged killing of a Nigerian, Toyin Salau. The NiDCOM chief described the alleged murder of the 19-year-old Nigerian-American Activist, Salau in the U.S as highly depressing and cruel. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr. Abdur-Rahman Balogun, Head of Media and Public Relations Unit of NiDCOM,...

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OPINION: George Floyd’s Murder Revives Anti-Colonialism in Western Europe

Law & JusticeOpinionOPINION: George Floyd’s Murder Revives Anti-Colonialism in Western Europe

PilotnewsJune 16, 2020

The murder of George Floyd by a policeman and the ensuing protests against racism and police brutality in the United States have ignited similar protests in Europe. Large crowds, especially in the United Kingdom, France, and Belgium, are demanding public acknowledgment of the links among slavery, European colonialism, and contemporary racism. European protesters, perhaps in solidarity with Americans, have borrowed anti-police rhetoric. But, with the exception of the French, by and large, European protestors tie racial...

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OPINION: The Church Must Make Reparation for its Role in Slavery, Segregation

Law & JusticeOpinionRegionsReligionUnited StatesOPINION: The Church Must Make Reparation for its Role in Slavery, Segregation

PilotnewsJune 15, 2020

The ever-expanding protests over the epidemic of police violence and systemic racism in the United States, manifested most recently in the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, have brought our society to another monumental crossroad. At the intersection of these enduring crimes against humanity and protesters of varying hues and creeds screaming, “Enough is enough,” is a global system of anti-Blackness and violence that has strangled Black communities in the United States...

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Floyd’s Death Hastens Shift in Police Pop Culture Portrayals

Arts & CultureLaw & JusticeUnited StatesFloyd’s Death Hastens Shift in Police Pop Culture Portrayals

PilotnewsJune 13, 2020

NEW YORK  — Gary Phillips, a prize-winning crime novelist from Los Angeles, grew up on TV shows that showed a world nothing like the one he lived in. “I watched them all, ‘Dragnet,’ ‘Adam 12,’ ‘The Wild, Wild West,’ ‘Mannix,’ ‘Cannon,’ ‘Peter Gunn’ reruns and on and on. Now these were white guys and they were tough but fair and even-handed,” he told The Associated Press in a recent email, referring to popular programs mostly...

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25 Prisoners Receives Pardon in Enugu State

Law & JusticeNewsNigeria25 Prisoners Receives Pardon in Enugu State

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)June 11, 2020

The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Thursday granted pardon to twenty-five (25) inmates in Enugu, Nsukka and Oji River Correctional Centres. The pardon was sequel to the recommendation of the Advisory Council on Prerogative of Mercy, and in exercise of the powers conferred on the Governor by “Section 212 (I) (a-d) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended. In a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government...

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