A. A. Akume

A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COMPANY DICHOTOMY UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 2004

Nigeria's principal companies legislation classifies all categories of incorporated companies into two broad groups, i.e. private companies and public companies.³ The CAMA has statutorily provided the distinction³ between these two broad groupings of companies in Nigeria. Under the said distinction, limitations are placed on the private company, th...

WHETHER WRITTEN ADDRESSES FILED AND EXCHANGED WITHOUT READING IN OPEN COURT NULLIFIES THE ENTIRE TRIAL AMINU MIKAILU VS. THE STATE (2001) 8 NWLR PT. 715, 469 (C.A.)

After the close of evidence by both sides to a case before the court, it is part of the trial process in Magistrate and High Courts etc. for counsel to both parties to deliver an address before the court. The address by counsel is the summation of all the major and important aspects of the evidence of each party, together with the judicial and stat...

REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF AMORC vs. AWONIYI AND 3 OTHERS: A JUDICIAL REVOLUTION AGAINST SECRET CULTS IN NIGERIA?

The right to freedom of worship, thought, conscience, and religion is guaranteed in the Nigerian Constitution. This right is further r nforced by the guarantee of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association for the protection of the interests of persons belonging to that assembly or association.” The emergence of secret cults in recen...