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Federal government through the Department of State Services (DSS) has arraigned seven men before the Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly diverting and

The offence of murder is not alien to us, and as such our laws in its form of dynamism have devised means to curb such menace in society. One of these means of getting rid of murder in our society is through the instrumentality of the 'doctrine of last seen'. This presumption of fact known as the doctrine of last seen, which is based on circumstantial evidence, was developed by the Supreme Court. Statutorily, this presumption could be found in section 167 of the Evidence Act.

Since the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the former Lagos governor has been facing a series of legal battles targeted to nullify his victory at the polls.

The Federal High Court in Abuja, has declined to issue an order of interim injunction to stop the scheduled swearing-in of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as President of Nigeria, on May 29.

In a significant development, a Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit aimed at stopping the swearing-in of Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the