By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Sir Henry Wotton, the Renaissance-era politician and diplomat from Kent in England is credited with the line that an ambassador is “an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.” What he did not quite capture was what the situation was at home from where the ambassador acquired the habit of dissembling....
NBA PRESIDENT PAYS TRIBUTE TO PROF. KASUNMU
NEWS RELEASE The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, FCIArb (UK), has paid a moving tribute to the late Professor Alfred Bandele Kasunmu, SAN, describing him as a great teacher, distinguished lawyer and patriarch whose legacy will endure across generations of the Nigerian legal profession. Badejo-Okusanya, who joined the family, colleagues and members of the Bar to...
CRISIS ROCKS AWLA AS NIGERIA, INT’L CAMPS CLASH
A major crisis has engulfed the African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA) as its Nigeria wing has issued a disclaimer against African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA) International Inc. over its planned International Conference scheduled to hold in Accra, Ghana. CITY LAWYER recalls that African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA) International Inc. has been promoting its international conference, saying that it is planned...
CATHOLIC KNIGHT WHO DENOUNCED NON-RECOGNITION OF IFEANYI UBAH ARRESTED IN NNEWI (VIDEOS)
Sir James Louis Okoye, a former Catholic Knight of St John International who denounced Christianity during the official opening of Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church, Nnewi, in January over non-recognition of late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, has been arrested. In a video that went viral, Okoye, also known as Ebube Anaedo, was reportedly seen last Saturday wearing a red dress...
POS VENDOR REFUNDS N70K TO NBA-AGC DELEGATE DAYS AFTER CONFERENCE
Lawyers at the closing moments of the just-concluded Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt were pleasurably surprised when announcements rang out from the public address system (PAS) asking whoever transferred N70,000 in error to a lady operating a Point of Sale (POS) service at the venue. Mercy Bello Abu, South-South Coordinator of the Association of Nigerian...
‘UNN: THE UNIVERSITY THAT MADE ME,’ BY MONDAY UBANI
Reminiscences of My Sojourn at the University of Nigeria, 1983-1989 By Monday Ubani Distinguished alumni, ladies and gentlemen, There are places we visit, places we live in, and places that live in us.For me, the University of Nigeria is not merely a place I attended between 1983 and 1989. It is a place that became part of my intellectual DNA....
FROM VILLAGE WHATSAPP GROUP TO FEDERAL HIGH COURT: DIGITAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TRACK TRIAL OF EX-NBA CHAIRMAN
The prosecution of former NBA Shendam Branch Chairman Gabriel Tsenyen has become more than a dispute over an online post. It is emerging as an important test of how Nigeria’s criminal justice system will draw the line between criminal conduct and expression in the country’s increasingly influential digital community spaces. What began as an exchange in a village WhatsApp group...
DRAMA, AS JUDGE ORDERS ARREST OF ‘FAKE LAWYER’ IN COURT (VIDEO)
A mild drama ensued last Thursday at the Lagos State High Court after a judge ordered arrest of an alleged fake lawyer. The suspect, who was fully robed in lawyers’ regalia including wig and gown, was in the court to represent a client but was taken into custody after the judge questioned his status as a legal practitioner. In the...
EFCC: WHEN EFFICIENCY COUNTS AS GOOD GOVERNANCE
By Frank Tietie Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been trending recently in the Nigerian media for good reasons, and even die-hard critics of President Bola Tinubu and opposition figures have been unable to fault the Commission’s unprecedented achievements in just 3 and a half years. Under the Bola Tinubu administration, between October 2023 and June 2026, the...
‘PETER OBI ALSO SPENDS MONEY FOR ELECTIONS, LIKE WIKE’ — LERE OLAYINKA
Lere Olayinka, media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has said Peter Obi also spends money in pursuit of elective office, contrary to the popular perception that the former Anambra State governor does not engage in financial inducement of politicians and delegates. Olayinka made the claim on Friday during an appearance on AIT’s Democracy Today...