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The Council of Legal Education (CLE) has given the green light to five universities to commence admission into the Law programme. In a statement made available to CITY LAWYER, the Council also increased admission quota for Tier-1 University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) from 220 to 250 students. Confirming CITY LAWYER exclusive report, the statement also shows that 260 students posted...

Two hundred and sixty students who sat for the November 2024 Bar Final Examinations have posted the much-coveted “First Class” grade, CITY LAWYER can authoritatively report. The figure represents only 3.6 per cent of the entire 7,134 students who sat for the examination. According to details obtained by CITY LAWYER, 940 students (13.2%) had their ambition of being admitted to...

SAYS N300M NBA-AGC REFUND ‘DIVERSIONARY’ Foremost human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana SAN has urged the Nigerian Judiciary to speedily determine the tenure of the Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd). The fiery senior lawyer also decried the controversy surrounding the N300 million donation by the state to the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), describing it as “diversionary.”...