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ARRESTED IN HIS STEAD: THE UNLAWFUL DETENTION AND ALLEGED TORTURE OF ESTHER ARANSIOLA | Lydia Ehisuoria Ohonsi, Esq.
Lydia Ehisuoria Ohonsi, Esq. A Legal Analysis under the Child Rights Act, the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria BY LYDIA EHISUORIA OHONSI ESQ. May 2026 I. Introduction On 5 May 2026, the Daily Trust published an account that crystallised, in the voice of a sixteen-year-old girl, virtually every pathology that child rights advocates and criminal justice reformers have spent decades attempting to dislodge from Nigerian law enforcement culture. Esther Aransiola, a minor resid…
THE ANATOMY OF A MANDATE: PROFESSIONAL SOLIDARITY AND THE "GROUNDWORK GAP" | Amb. Barr. Clementina E. Ukiri (De Dominus Litis)
The recent courtroom drama involving the social media influencer Chidiebere Mark (Justice Crack) and his erstwhile counsel, Marshall Abubakar, at the Federal High Court Abuja, is more than a viral headline. For the discerning legal practitioner, it is a sobering case study on the fragile intersection of professional etiquette, the law of agency, and litigation strategy. When seniority is invoked as a sword rather than a shield, and when a client’s family undermines counsel in open court, the resulting legal skeleton reveals a systemic failu…
