Mr. Rights Blog

Mrrightsng can exclusively report that a Nigerian writer, Elias Ozikpu, has commenced a N15billion legal proceedings at the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court against an Ogun State based publishing house, Melrose Books and Publishing Limited over the theft of his intellectual property, HEROES OF THE NIGHT,a literary work describe by the publishing company as possible best seller. Documents obtained by MrRightsng revealed that the writer had entered into agreement with Melrose Books and Publishing Limited in September of 2012 for the publication of his literary work entitled: ‘HEROES OF THE NIGHT’. Responding to several correspondences written by the author to the publisher to enquire the status of his work, the publishing house claimed throughout that it had not been able to publish HEROES OF THE NIGHT owing to the magnitude of work at its disposal, particularly the preparation of its curriculum-based titles for primary and secondary schools. The author, obviously frustr...

The Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately commence the process of recalling Senator Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi West. The Court struck out Dino Melaye’s appeal for lacking in merit in a joint decision delivered by Justice T.O. Awotoye. The court also dismissed the appellant’s claim that he was denied fair hearing by the electoral umpire before commencing the recall process, noting that INEC is neither a tribunal nor a court of law. Justice Atowoye further held that there is no limitation to the counting of the 90 days for the recall process, as it can be extended, adding that INEC’s powers is statutory and not even the court can take away the powers of INEC to conduct a referendum. “The powers of the Independent National Electoral Commission is a statutory one given by the constitution and not even the court can take away the powers of INEC to conduct a referendum. “Such statutory bodies...