THE CONTINUED RELEVANCE OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION BY JOSEPH BODURIN DAUDU NBA as the Nigerian Bar Association will be referred to herein as the umbrella body of all Nigerian Legal Practitioners. It is also a pressure group which ensures that all agencies and even government itself operate strictly within the bounds of the Rule of Law. Indeed her motto...
NBA PRESIDENT STORMS PORT HARCOURT OVER BRANCH ELECTION CRISIS, HOLDS PARLEY WITH STAKEHOLDERS TODAY
The crisis rocking the planned election of officers to run the affairs of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Port Harcourt Branch peaked yesterday as members vigorously protested the plan by the Caretaker Committee to hold the election yesterday. It reportedly took a combined team of Police and Directorate of State Services (DSS) operatives to calm frayed nerves as some lawyers...
WE ARE FIXING DOORS, WINDOWS, P.O.P. & FITTINGS FOR MORDI ESQ’S FAMILY (COKER PHARMACY BENIN) IN LAWYERS IN BUSINESS MASS-HOUSING & LAND-BANKING SCHEME, ALL THE WAY FROM NBA BENIN ALONGSIDE CHIEF G. C. IGBOKWE SAN, FORMER CHAIRMAN OF MID-WEST BAR FORUM
We are fixing doors, windows, P.O.P & fittings for the Mordi Esq’s Family [Coker Pharmacy Benin], who are participating in the Lawyers In Business Mass-Housing & Land-Banking Scheme, all the way from NBA Benin, Edo State; alongside Chief. G. C. Igbokwe SAN, the Former Chairman of Mid-west Bar Forum. Call/Chat: 08060266163, 08050489622 We are building into flats, and Tenants are...
ANXIETY, AS NBA PH CARETAKER C’TE EXPELS IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR CORDELIA EKE FROM BRANCH WHATSAPP, EKE SENDS ‘SOS’ TO MEMBERS
The immediate past Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Port Harcourt Branch, Mrs. Cordelia Eke has been removed from the branch WhatApp platform by the Caretaker Committee appointed by NBA President, Mr. Afam Osigwe SAN to manage the branch affairs. In a statement made available to CITY LAWYER, Eke decried her expulsion from the platform, claiming that she merely...
RIGGING FEARS, INJUNCTION, MEETING REQUISITION CLOUD NBA PORT HARCOURT POLL TOMORROW
Members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Port Harcourt Branch will tomorrow head to the poll to elect the next set of officers for the very influential branch. The election is however coming amid a cloud of issues, including an alleged injunction barring the election and a meeting requisitioned by some branch members for Election Day. Although a High Court...
BREAKING: LPPC APPOINTS 68 NEW SENIOR ADVOCATES (FULL LIST)
The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) has appointed 68 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) to the coveted rank. The appointment was ratified today at the committee’s 174th Plenary Session under the chairmanship of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun. CITY LAWYER recalls that the committee had mid last month shortlisted 77 candidates under the Advocates Category, while...
‘WHY NBA PH CARETAKER CHAIR MUST RESIGN FOR BIAS’ – EX EBF GOV
BY SOSEIPIRIYE LONG WILLIAMS Following the inability of the NBA PH Branch Electoral Committee to conduct elections to fill in the offices of the Branch executives on 26th June, 2026 by virtue of the order of Hon. Justice Sika Henry Aprioku sitting in Port Harcourt, the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mazi Afam Osigwe SAN by the powers vested...
UBANI BAGS ‘BEST PHD LAW GRADUATE’ PRIZE AT BABCOCK UNIVERSITY
Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Section on Public Interest and Development Law (SPIDEL), Dr. Monday Onyekachi Ubani has emerged as the Best Graduating Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) student in Law at Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State. Ubani was formally awarded the PhD degree during the university’s convocation ceremony last Tuesday, marking...
ANAMBRA OFFERS PLEA BARGAIN TO SUSPECTS EXCEPT VIOLENT OFFENDERS
NEWS RELEASE By Ebuka Onyekwelu, Ph.D As part of a deliberate effort by the Government of Anambra State to speed up the trial of suspects and ensure quick dispensation of justice, the government has offered a plea bargain to all suspects undergoing criminal trial, excluding those on trial for murder, rape, armed robbery, and kidnapping. In a statement signed on...
ODINKALU BLASTS DSS, LABELS TRIAL OF EX NBA BRANCH CHAIR AS POWER ABUSE
Foremost rights advocate, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu has described the scheduled arraignment of former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Shendam Branch Chairman, Mr. Gabriel Tsenyen as one of the most spectacular weaponization and abuse of power in recent Nigerian history. Tsenyen accuses the current President of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Bolna’an Dongban-Mensem, of involvement in forcibly taking his family land....