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  • Rivers crisis: Judge extends order stopping action against 26 defecting lawmakers

    Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has extended the interim order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from taking any action against the 26 Rivers State House of Assembly members who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Justice Okorowo extended the order following…

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  • Pet owner throws dog from a multi-storey building, claims it’s an act of kindness

    CCTV footage has shown the moment a dog owner threw her Maltese Shih Tzu off the top of a multi-storey car park in Australia. The dog, named Princess, had to be put down after she was taken to a vet by a passerby who found the animal in the car park of the Westfield Whitford…

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  •   Trying an action which arose from the collision of two ships at sea, a sailor who gave an account of the accident said, “At the time I was standing abaft the binnacle.” “Where is abaft the binnacle – where is abaft the binnacle?” asked Lord Mansfield; upon which the witness, who had taken a…

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  • A Chinese court made history last Valentine’s Day after it approved divorce settlements between a couple in just twenty minutes. The legal proceedings were observed on Wechat. Media reports applauded this fast and easy way of ending an already broken relationship in a country with one of the highest divorce rates. Courts are now permitted…

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  • What do you do after falling in love with someone and suddenly can’t see them again because they got time to serve in prison? Run? While some people will choose to wait with fidelity and an ever-growing affection, others will find reasons to quit. This pretty nurse falls in the category of those patient lovers…

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  • A cancer-stricken young girl who pleaded with a judge to let her body be frozen after death in order to see if a cure for her illness could be found in the future, can now Rest In Peace. She won the historic legal battle moments before her death, with the hope that she will be…

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  • Image shows the Supreme Court of Canada. A Canadian judge is currently under probe for some taunting comments he made against a rape victim during a court trial in 2014. The judge could lose his seat from the bench if convicted for the string of controversial comments, reports say. The Canadian Judicial Council [a federal…

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  • Barcelona fans has gained court approval allowing hoisting of the Estelada flag during games. It is a joyful moment for football lovers in Spain after learning that they are permitted by law to wave the flags in Sunday’s Copa del Rey final against Sevilla. Image: Fans waving Esteladas on the street.

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  • The Supreme Court of China has unequivocally condemned the assassination of a judge named Ma Caiyun. She was one of the two victims shot dead in the attack. One of the attackers was angered by the court’s judgement on his post-divorce property settlement pronounced by the said judge. 

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