DUTCH REFEREE ROB DIEPERINK DIES WEEKS AFTER REMOVAL FROM WORLD CUP OFFICIATING LIST. (PHOTO).

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 Dutch referee Rob Dieperink dies weeks after removal from World Cup officiating list Dutch referee Rob Dieperink has died at the age of 38, weeks after FIFA removed him from its list of officials for the World Cup. The Dutch Football Association (KNVB) confirmed his death in a statement, saying it was “shocked and deeply saddened” by the news. His cause of death has not been disclosed. Dieperink was arrested in April by the Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom following a report of an alleged sexual assault involving a teenage boy in London. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said officers responded on April 9 to a report of sexual assault at an address in Croydon and arrested a man in his 30s on suspicion of the offence. Police later said that after reviewing available evidence, including CCTV footage and digital devices, the investigation had concluded that “the evidential threshold had not been met” and no further action would be taken. Following the investigation, FIFA co...

COURT WALL COLLAPSE ON CHIEF JUDGE OF EKITI, JUSTICE ADEYEYE. (PHOTO).


Court wall collapses on Chief Judge of Ekiti, Justice Adeyeye

…as NBA laments infrastructural decay in Judiciary

 The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, on Saturday, said it received with rude shock, news that a section of the High Court building in Ekiti State, collapsed on the Chief Judge, Justice Oyewole Adeyeye.

NBA, which is the umbrella body of legal practitioners in the country, said this through its President, Mr. Yakubu Maikyau, SAN,

The legal body, in a statement that was signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Akorede Habeeb Lawal, disclosed that the “unfortunate incident” occurred last Wednesday.

NBA lamented that the incident exposed to the level of infrastructural decay in the judiciary.

It said the collapsed Ekiti court building, “again brings to the fore the deplorable state of infrastructures in most court buildings in Nigeria and the pitiable state of facilities available to court officials and users in the country.”

NBA President, therefore, urged the Government to be more deliberate about improving the state of facilities and security in courts across the federation.

“Mr. Maikyau who has since been engaging the leadership of the Bar and the Judiciary in Ekiti State over this incident, has expressed his delight that his lordship is responding to treatment and he has extended the gratitude of the NBA to the doctors, nurses and other staff of ABUAD Multi-system Hospital, Ado Ekiti, where his lordship is presently being tended to.

“The NBA President has urged members to pray for the quick and prompt recovery of his lordship, the Honourable the Chief Judge of Ekiti State,” the statement further read.

 

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