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THE RADIANT JUSTICE CHAMBERS, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   Legal Nuggets⚖️   ANNULMENT  ¶ An Annulment is granted when a court finds that a marriage is invalid. While a divorce ends a legally valid marriage, an annulment treats the marriage as if it never existed. Although the result is the same for both options – the parties are each free to marry again ¶ Generally, there is no exact period after the marriage by which an annulment must be sought.  ¶ In Nigeria, nullity can be of a voidable marriage or a void marriage. Valid grounds for seeking an annulment are stated in Section 5 of the Matrimonial Causes Act. ¶ Lack of consent, duress, mental incapacity, prohibited degrees of consanguinity and affinity, and so forth are grounds for obtaining an annulment.       FROM THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF LITIGATION AND RESEARCH.

THE RADIANT JUSTICE CHAMBERS, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY  Legal Nuggets⚖️  Circumstantial Evidence   Circumstantial evidence is also known as indirect evidence. The court draws conclusions from existing facts in issue. It implies that a person committed the act in question. Circumstantial evidence could be the appearance on the scene of a crime, testimony that suggests a connection or link with a crime or physical evidence that suggests criminal activity. As opposed to Direct Evidence, Circumstantial evidence pertains to a series of facts other than the particular fact sought to be proved. The party offering circumstantial evidence argues that this series of facts can be inferred from the proven facts, by reason and experience.  This kind of evidence is mostly employed in criminal trials. Many circumstances can create assumptions of an accused's guilt, including the accused's resistance to arrest, the presence of a motive, presence at the scene of the cr...

Avant-garde Innovation and Technology Services set to host its third Sustainability Table Discourse. The 3rd edition of the Sustainability Table Discourse is set to hold on the 26th of November 2020.  The virtual event would have in attendance, entrepreneurs, sustainable development experts, academia, policymakers to share perspectives on how best to achieve a green and digital economy. The discourse would focus on opportunities available to bring SDGs to scale through telecommunication investment and effective waste management. The theme of this year's edition is; "Bridging The Digital Divide: Leveraging Technology and Optimal Broadband Penetration to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)". Speaking with the Convener who doubles as the Principal Consultant of Avant-garde Innovation and Technology Services, “Our mission is to utilise this forum, the leading sustainability platform in Nigeria as a melting pot where learning and solution-driven dialogue meet. Wit...

THE RADIANT JUSTICE CHAMBERS, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY.   LEGAL NUGGETS⚖️ ABEYANCE     KEY TAKEAWAYS • The term is simply when the rightful owner of a property or trust has not been decided or has not met the obligations required to inherit the property, such as age or achievement requirements. • Abeyances are used in testamentary trusts. • That is, a legal arrangement created according to the specifications in a person's will. It is created to address any assets accumulated during that person's lifetime or generated as a result of a postmortem lawsuit, such as a settlement in a survival claim or the proceeds from a life insurance policy held on the settlor. A trust can be created to oversee such assets. A trustee is appointed to direct the trust until a set time when the trust expires. This date can be when minor beneficiaries reach a specified age or meet some kind of stipulation such as completing a set educational goal or achieving a specified matrimonia...