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UPDATED: List of Accredited/Approved Faculties of Law In Nigeria

Life & TechUni Law FacultiesSep 21, 20160 25 Faculties of Law In Nigeria Federal Universities University Of Ibadan – Provisional accreditation University Of Lagos- Full accreditation University of Nsukka- Provisional accreditation University of Maiduguri-Provisional accreditation University of Benin- Provisional accreditation University of Jos- Provisional accreditation University of Calabar- Provisional accreditation University of Ilorin- Provisional accreditation University of Uyo- Provisional accreditation Obafemi Awolowo University- Provisional accreditation Bayero University, Kano- Provisional accreditation Usmanu Dan fodio University- Provisional accreditation Ahmadu Bello University- Provisional accreditation University of Abuja- Provisional accreditation Nnamdi Azikiwe University-Provisional accreditation State Universities Adekunle Ajasin University- Provisional accreditation Ebonyi State University- Interim accreditation Ekiti State University- Provisional accreditation Abia State University- Interim accreditation Kogi State University- Provisional accreditation Delta State University- Provisional accreditation Nasarawa State University- Provisional accreditation Ambrose Alli University- Provisional accreditation Olabisi Onabanjo University- Provisional accreditation Osun State University- Interim accreditation Bukar Abba Ibrahim University- Approval to commence Umaru Musa Yar’adua University- Approval to commence IMO State University- Provisional accreditation Bauchi State University- Approval to commence Lagos State University- Accreditation suspended Benue State University- Accreditation suspended Anambra State University of Sci. and Tech.- Interim accreditation Enugu State University of Sci. and Tech.- Provisional accreditation River State University of Sci. and Tech.- Provisional accreditation Private Universities Igbinedion University- Provisional accreditation Afe Bsbaola University- Approval to commence Crescent University Abeokuta- Approval to commence Babcock University, Ogun State- Provisional accreditation Baze University Abuja- Approval to commence American University of Nigeria- Approval to commence Bowen University- Provisional accreditation Benson Idahosa University- Interim accreditation Nigerian Turkish Nile University- Approval to commence Joseph Ayo Babalola- Approval to commence Al-hikman University- Approval to commence Lead City University- Approval to commence Ajayi Crowther University- Approval to commence Edwin Clark University- Conditional approval to commence Madonna University- Currently being re-evaluated. Signed Secretary To Council & Director Of Administration. Source: nigerianlawschool.edu.ng Send your press release/articles to: editor@thenigerialawyer.com, Click here Subscribe to our BBM Channel: C0022E965 Follow us on Twitter at @Nigerialawyers and Facebook at facebook.com/thenigerialawyerFor Advert Inquiries Tele/+2348058930770 E-mail: thenigerialawyers@gmail.com

The Boring Scandal That Might Finally Take Donald Trump Down

By Dustin Rowles | Politics | September 14, 2016 | While the media has rightfully been lambasted in recent weeks for creating a false equivalency between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the double standard is not entirely the fault of the media. It’s not easy to cover Trump, because of the sheer number of scandals, gaffes, and lies endemic to his campaign. With Clinton, there are basically two scandals: The private email server and the Clinton Foundation, and that’s all we’ve heard about for the last year and a half when it comes to Clinton? Why? Because that’s all there is. Being implicated in only two scandals has also been something of a detriment, because the portion of the media covering the Clinton campaign has been able to sink its teeth into those scandals, do some really deep work, and spend months and months investigating and reporting on them. Where it concerns the private email server and the Clinton Foundation, the media has been beating those drums over and over and over, because it’s the only drums they have, although it says something that — after a year and a half — neither the media nor Congress has really mustered much of anything that has stuck. On the other hand, where it concerns Trump, there’s been no shortage of scandals. When there’s 5 new lies, improprieties, and scandals every single day, the portion of the media that covers Trump gets so preoccupied with new revelations that it never gets an opportunity to zero in on already existing ones. There has been plenty of negative Trump coverage, but the reporting is thin. Superficial. No one has done the work of finding one issue or one scandal and investigating the hell out if. Except David A. Fahrenthold and The Washington Post. Unless you follow the political coverage obsessively, Fahrenthold might not be a name that rings any bells, but there’s a chance — an increasing one — that by November, Fahrenthold could be the Woodward and Bernstein of this election. He’s been pursuing the Trump Foundation for months, and he’s been doing a bang up job of it. Unfortunately, much of his reporting tends to get lost in the breathless news cycle. For instance, Fahrenthold’s most damning piece yet was published on Sunday, the day that the media decided to turn its attention to #HillarysHealth. Fahrenthold’s piece ended up getting buried because lies about a charitable foundation are not as sexy or immediate as a pneumonia diagnosis. Yesterday, however, some news broke that may finally elevate the issue into a full-blown scandal that the rest of the media — piggybacking on Fahrenthold’s work — might actually sink its teeth into. The New York Attorney General admitted that he was investigating the Trump Foundation for improprieties. What AG Eric Schneiderman is likely to find is what Fahrenthold has essentially found: That Donald Trump uses his family foundation to launder money and self-deal. As his reporting has shown, Donald Trump hasn’t made a single contribution to his own family foundation since 2008, but he has managed to use other people’s money to make “charitable” donations and take credit for it. Many of those donations are banal, but some of those donations are downright sketchy. The one that’s getting most of the attention — and the one most likely to get Trump into legal hot water — is the one to Florida’s AG Pam Bondi. He gave her $25,000, and he essentially made Florida’s potential investigation into Trump University go away. There were a number of problems with that donation, however. For one, non-profits aren’t allowed to donate to political campaigns, but also, Trump went through a number of hoops in an attempt to hide the donation from the IRS and government authorities. They found out. He paid a fine, and it might otherwise be the end of the story except for the obvious pay-to-play implications. There’s also the fact that he spent $20,000 of his foundation’s money — other people’s money — to buy a painting of himself, and $12,000 to buy an autographed Tim Tebow football. Those are the funny/headline worthy details, but dig deeper, and there’s some super shady, self-dealing business going on. For instance, Donald Trump solicited the Charles Evans Foundation for $150,000 in an effort to raise money for the Palm Beach Police Foundation. It turns out that the only contribution that Trump made to the Palm Beach Police Foundation was the $150,000 he received from the Charles Evans foundation. It’s not illegal to take credit for someone else’s money, but the twist is this: When the Palm Beach Police Foundation decided to honor Donald Trump for the $150,000 donations he got from someone else, it rented Trump’s Mar-a-Lago to hold a gala event to honor him at a cost of $275,000.Trump actually made money on his charitable contribution. It also seems that many — maybe most — of Trump’s charitable contributions go to organizations that turn around and provide something of value to him, like rent his ballrooms or use his golf courses.There’s also the fact that his biggest donor in recent years — Richie Ebers — is a ticket scalper. What does Trump get out of that? Or the fact that Prestige Mills — a carpet company that cleans many of Trump’s properties — has donated $64,000 to the Trump Foundation. All of this information (and much more) has been uncovered by, more or less, one man: David A. Fahrenthold. What happens when the rest of the media finally turn to the story? How much is likely to come to the surface? There’s also the fact that Trump says he has made charitable donations in the tens of millions, but there is absolutely no evidence of that whatsoever. None. Zero. His foundation has never even had tens of millions of dollars. These revelations are damning — they show a pattern of self-dealing, a concerted effort to use his charity as a tax dodge, repeated lies, and a means for Trump to finance his own celebrity — but they are not flashy. With a guy like Trump, who breathes fabrications and hyperbole, it’s hard for a story like this to break through. But slowly and surely — in drips and drabs — it’s beginning to see the light, and in the end, it may be to Donald Trump what tax evasion charges were to Al Capone: The boring scandal that finally took him down. Dustin Rowles continues to refuse to post images of Donald Trump. The above photo is of Rose McIver, because he recently binged through season 2 of iZombie and he may be a little smitten. 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How powerful is your passport? Here are the 2016 rankings

German and Swedish passport holders can travel to the largest number of countries visa free Image: Passport Index Written by Simon Torkington Published Monday 12 September 2016 A new ranking has revealed which nations have the most powerful passports. Passport Index ranks our travel documents by measuring the number of countries that can be visited without applying for a visa. The 2016 ranking puts Germany and Sweden at the top of the passport league. Holders of German and Swedish passports can visit 158 countries without the need to apply for a visa. Last year, the United States and the United Kingdom shared the top spot. The US has now slipped to fourth place. Culled from World Economic Forum... British passports have slipped to second place, where they enjoy the same status as France, Spain, Switzerland and Finland. The map below shows the global distribution of the most and least powerful passports. The least powerful passports are issued by poor countries, often mired in conflict. The people of Afghanistan can only visit 24 countries without applying for a visa. Pakistan fares little better, with just 31 countries offering visa-free travel. The passport of the world’s newest nation, strife-torn South Sudan, only allows visa-free access to 36 countries. A single African passport? South Africa has the highest-ranking passport in continental Africa. It is placed 46th in the world and grants holders access to 91 countries without the need for a visa. The African Union has recently launched a trial of a single African passport that allows holders visa-free access to all 54 AU member states. Initially the passport is only available to African Union heads of state, ministers of Foreign Affairs and the permanent representatives of AU member states based at the headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The AU has plans to abolish visa requirements “for all African citizens and African countries by 2018”, according to the AU’s Agenda 2063. The AU has suggested 2020 as the roll-out date for a single African passport for all citizens. AU Commission Chairperson, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, described the single passport initiative as “a steady step toward the objective of creating a strong, prosperous and integrated Africa, driven by its own citizens and capable of taking its rightful place on the world stage." __________________