Ejike Nwafor & Partners LLP

01/03/2026

Headline: Advancing Healthcare Accountability: Announcing the Publication of "Medical Negligence in Nigeria"
I am pleased to announce the release of my latest work, "Medical Negligence in Nigeria: The Quest for Justice and Regulatory Overhaul”
Drawing from 19 years of litigation experience and my role as founder of Ejike Nwafor & Partners LLP, this book was written as a direct response to the systemic regulatory failures that continue to claim lives in our healthcare system. It moves beyond the headlines of recent tragedies to provide a rigorous legal and policy roadmap for reform.
Inside the Book:
• The Legal Labyrinth: An exhaustive analysis of the four pillars of tort, the high threshold for criminal liability, and the practical challenges of the "conspiracy of silence."
• The Agbakoba Doctrine: A bold blueprint for reform, including the establishment of an Independent Health Regulatory Authority and specialized medical tribunals.
• Practical Tools for Reform: The book includes a draft Medical Negligence (Reform) Bill and a Template Coroner’s Inquest Petition to empower victims and practitioners alike.
As we advocate for a system where a hospital is a sanctuary of healing rather than a site of avoidable tragedy, I invite my colleagues in the Bar and Bench, medical professionals, and policy-makers to join this critical discourse.
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Medical Negligence in Nigeria: The Quest for Justice and Regulatory Overhaul, is a seminal exploration of the systemic regulatory breakdown within Nigeria’s healthcare system. Triggered by the heartrending loss of Nkanu Nnamdi—son of renowned author ...

30/01/2026

Hello,

I’m pleased to share my newly published book:

📘 Tenancy and Recovery of Premises Law in Nigeria (2026)

This practical guide explains Lagos 2025 tenancy reforms, federal recovery procedures, court processes, and recent case law — designed for lawyers, landlords, property investors, estate managers, and tenants.

Get your copy here:
👉 https://selar.com/1999191198

Thank you for your support.

— Ejike Nwafor, Esq

Tenancy and Recovery of Premises Law in Nigeria (2026) A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Rental Frameworks, Lagos 2025 Reforms, and Federal PracticesThe landlord–tenant relationship in Nigeria is undergoing its most significant transformation in decades. From the landmark Lagos State Tenancy and Rec...

23/06/2019

*Court Nullifies Section 5 of Money Laundering Act*

by lawyard staff | Jan 7, 2017 | News | 0 Comments

NBA wins suit on disputed anti-money laundering provisions

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has won a suit instituted against the Attorney-General of the Federation and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) seeking to bar the defendants from enforcing the provisions of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 (MLA) against legal practitioners.

In a judgment delivered by Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja, the court held that the provisions of the MLA as it applies to legal practitioners are null and void. It also adjudged the inclusion of legal practitioners in the definition of designated non-financial institutions as inapplicable.

Justice Kolawole also granted an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Federal Government, the CBN and the SCUML from seeking to enforce Section 5 of the MLA against legal practitioners. He made no order as to costs.

In an originating summons dated March 15, 2013 and taken out on behalf of the Registered Trustees of the NBA by Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), Mrs. Funke Adekoya (SAN), Messrs Babajide Ogundipe, Emeka Nwadioke and Davison Oturu, the NBA had asked the court to declare that the provisions of Section 5 MLA, insofar as they purport to apply to legal practitioners, are invalid, null and void.

The plaintiffs also sought an order of the court deleting legal practitioners from the definition of Designated Non-Financial Institutions (DNFIs) as contained in Section 25 MLA, an order of perpetual injunction restraining the CBN from seeking to implement its circular reference FPR/CIR/GEN/VOL.1/028 dated 2nd August 2012 in relation to legal practitioners, and an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Federal Government, acting through Special Control Unit against Money Laundering (SCUML), the National Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) or other

22/06/2019

By Section 1 of the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act 2017, all hospitals in Nigeria shall accept and treat without a police clearance any person with a gunshot wound. Section 2 further mandates all security agencies to render the necessary assistance to gunshot victims and ensure that they are taken promptly to a hospital for treatment. Furthermore, in the said Section, the law provides that all victims with gunshot wounds shall be treated without a request for initial monetary deposits and such persons shall not be victims of any inhuman or degrading treatment.
A hospital that receives any person with a gunshot wound is also enjoined to make a report to the nearest police station within 2 hours of treatment, failure to do this attracts a fine of N100,000 and every doctor concerned with the treatment, is liable on conviction to a fine of N100,000 or 6 months imprisonment or both.
Any person, police officer or security agent who stands by and fails to give the necessary help to a victim of gunshot wound, which leads to the unnecessary death of the Victim, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of N500,000 or 5 years imprisonment or both.
Also any person who commits an offence which causes susbstantial damage of whatever form to the victim, is liable on conviction to 15 years imprisonment without the option of fine.
In addition to all these penalties, the court can also order that a person or corporate body in default, pays to the victim, an amount equivalent to the loss sustained by the victim. This is known as restitution.
Please share across all platforms so security agents and medical practitioners are informed of this law, in order to ensure the preservation of the lives of victims with gunshot wounds.

04/06/2019

The federal high court sitting in Abuja was on the 3/06/2019 in suit no FHC/ABJ/CS/1184/2018 between Ejike Nwafor Esq vs EMTS LTD( Trading as 9mobile) & Anor declared that sending of unsolicited messages by a telecom company to a person amount to invading into his privacy as guarranteed by Sect 37 of const of FRN 1999 as amended.

17/01/2019

Continuation on CJN matter:
Equally importantly, since it is the existence of the bank account that must be declared, a declaration of one bank account in Nigeria, which is BVN linked, is a declaration of all the other bank accounts. This is because by virtue of BVN, any bank account that you have is automatically disclosed whenever you disclose even one of those accounts.

Since it is the asset that you are required to disclose, and not the contents, the amount in the other accounts is irrelevant. In any event, by disclosing the account through BVN you have disclosed the contents of the account.

Note that an authority and authorised person is required to verify the declaration before it can be said to be false, and part of the verification process will require that person to check all BVN linked accounts.

Also, one may argue that the CJN was not obliged to make a new declaration upon attaining the office of Chief Justice because he remains a Justice of the Supreme Court and is only primus inter pares.

Even if I am wrong, and that is for the Courts to interpret, he was certainly not required to make a declaration on being appointed as acting CJN because paragraph 11(1) requires a declaration only after” taking office”.

He does not take the office of CJN when he is in an acting position, he is till in his substantive position of Supreme Court Justice and is required to make a declaration only every 4 years.

17/01/2019

17/01/2019. Ref: ENP/006/19
CJN matter;
No knowledge is wasted reading thru till the end.

*I told you some people went to read law in the University while some others went to the University to study law. Read and learn from our erudite CJN. Am proud of this man's knowledge*

Onnoghen: A Learned Defence of Justice of Nigeria.

" I just want to point out a few matters in relation to alleged false declarations and statements by Public Officers.
The Fifth Schedule of the 1999 Constitution which provides for the Code of Conduct for Public Officers has two relevant paragraphs.

(a) Paragraph 3 prohibits a Public Officer from operating an account outside the Country. It does not prohibit operating an account in foreign currency in Nigeria. Accordingly there is nothing wrong with opening and operating a domicillary account.

(b) Paragraph 11 mandates a Public Officer to declare all his properties, assets and liabilities every 4 years and at the end of his tenure – 11(1).

Paragraph 11(2) provides that any statement in the declaration found to be false by any authority or person authorised to verify the statement or declaration shall be deemed a breach of the Code.

Leaving aside for a moment the fact that it is only an authority or person authorised to verify the statement or declaration that can find it to be false, the question is what really amounts to a false declaration in respect of assets like bank accounts.

My considered view is that the asset that needs to be declared is the bank account and not the money in it, simply because the nature of bank accounts is that they fall or grow depending on the spending pattern of the account holder.

Since the mandatory Constitutional provision is to make a declaration every 4 years, it is not every time you put money in an account that you must declare it. You are only required to declare every 4 years.
Cont'd.

16/01/2019

16/01/2019. Ref:ENP/005/19
Legal tips:
A letter of credict according to sect 2(4) of external trade letter of credit(control) Act 1961 as any undertaking or authority in writing given to finance payment in respect of goods or services on account of any person resident in Nigeria.For daily legal tips like our page on Ejike Nwafor - Partners LLP

14/01/2019

14/01/2019. Ref. ENP/004/19
Legal tips:
A banker which a cheque was presented which he rejected on ground of forgery is duty bound to report same to customer to enable him inquire into and protect himself against the circumstances of the forgery. For daily legal tips like our page on Ejike Nwafor & Partners LLP

11/01/2019

11/01/2019. Ref: ENP/003/19
Election Matters:
Say No to INEC guideline on accreditation and voting simultaneously because we are agitating that there would be separate accreditation and voting respectively, that is to say when all voters has been accredited voting process will commence this was the procedure adopted in 2015 election and it will serve as a checks to prevent INEC and APC from rigging the election. In OSUN and EKITI where voting and accreditation were done simultaneously we have seen where police were used to chase out everybody from the polling unit including the party agents who prove stubborn to their biddings to enable INEC and APC manipulate results. Pls spread across.