Artists, writers, musicians, Intellectual Property (IP) professionals, last week gathered at the Columbia University, to attend the 2012 African Economic Forum (AEF), and discuss the continued assault on the Intellectual Property rights of African artists.

The Magistrate who ordered the assault and detention of some judicial correspondents at the Ikeja Magistrate Court last week, A. A. Osoniyi is about to face the music, as the public outcry against her rash behaviour and abuse of power, increases by the day.

Former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Intercontinental Bank Plc (now Access bank) Dr Erastus Akingbola yesterday secured a major judicial victory in his ongoing trial at the  Federal High Court, Lagos over financial impropriety as  the court yesterday  discharged him of the 26 -count amended charges preferred against him by  the Federal Government.

A commercial law firm, A.O.S Practitioners has filed a motion at the Federal High Court in Lagos, seeking the leave of the court to advertise its petition for the winding-up of Access Bank (The Respondent in the matter), on the basis of the Bank’s alleged indebtedness to it.