Human rights advocate, KABIR AKINGBOLU pens a rejoinder to a recent fierce attack by NBA presidential aspirant, Mr. Adesina Ogunlana on leading human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana SAN FALANA AS A METAPHOR OF JUSTICE TO OGUNLANA’S PUERILE INCONSISTENCY THEORY Recently, Mr. Adesina Ogunlana, the embattled former NBA Ikeja Branch Chairman, said that whoever takes...
‘WE SHALL KEENLY MONITOR THE PROCESS’ BY EMEKA NWADIOKE The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has asked the Governor of Kano State, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje not to sign the warrant for the execution of convicted musician YAHAYA SHARIF-AMINU until he has exhausted his constitutional right of appeal against the judgement of the sharia court. In...
‘THERE IS A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO BLACKMAIL SANs’ BY EMEKA NWADIOKE A new twist has emerged in the move by the influential Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (BOSAN) to probe the election of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olumide Akpata among others. There are reports that BOSAN had at its virtual meeting yesterday resolved...
BAR LEADERS QUERY INCLUSION OF SENATE PRESIDENT, SPEAKER, OTHERS BENCHERS TO TAKE OVER NBA DURING CRISIS BY EMEKA NWADIOKE There is palpable anxiety within legal circles as the influential Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (BOSAN) meet today to decide the fate of the controversial Legal Practitioners Act Bill. The Bill seeks to repeal and...
‘I WOULD HAVE RESIGNED IF I WERE AKPATA ….’ BY EMEKA NWADIOKE More insights have emerged from the recently concluded Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Elections, even as former NBA presidential candidate, Mr. Dele Adesina SAN has finally thrown in the towel in his quest to have the election cancelled. In a detailed statement titled “NIGERIAN...