A High Court sitting in Enugu State has ruled that membership of the NBA is mandatory for all legal practitioners and therefore automatic upon call to Bar and/or on commencement and/or continuance of the practice of the Legal profession in Nigeria. The Court gave this decision in SUIT No. OB/27/2020: BEN OLOKO V. THE INCORPORATED...
Human rights lawyer, TUNDE KOLAWOLE has narrated his ordeal in the hands of alleged Department of State Services (DSS) operatives, saying there is a grand design to ruin him and his law practice. PAVING THE WAY TO PENURY: MY ORDEAL IN THE HANDS OF SECURITY AGENCIES MEALS are supposed to be enjoyed. But sometimes meals...
Former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) General Secretary JOYCE ODUAH spoke last Tuesday at the IBA on International Strategy and the International Bar Association: Building and developing an international strategy for young lawyers and its implementation. Among other reforms, she advocated for reduction of membership and conference fees for young lawyers from all jurisdictions and for...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola and Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike are among dignitaries billed to attend the 2022 Annual Conference of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Nigeria Branch. The Annual Conference has as its theme “Restating the legitimacy of arbitration: Africa taking the lead,” and will hold from November 9...
Two suspects are now being investigated in connection with the death of Ifeanyi, the son of music star, David Adeleke (aka Davido) and his fiancée, Chioma Rowland. Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said: “Eight people were brought in for questioning, six people were allowed to go, the remaining two were the...
A prominent Bar Leader, Mr. Jibrin Okutepa SAN has disowned a “Quit Notice” allegedly written by his former employee and bearing his office address. Noting that “the said quit notice did not emanate from my office and could not have emanated from my office,” Okutepa added that “I am surprised to see this carrying my...
BAR LEADERS BEHIND NEW BODY REVEALED More facts have emerged on how the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) rejected registration of the new lawyers’ union, citing conflict with the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). In a document obtained by CITY LAWYER, the CAC had refused to approve the name “Law Society of Nigeria” among two others, stating...
Some Bar Leaders seem to have made good their threat to form a parallel lawyers’ association to assuage perceived wrongs within the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). This comes against the backdrop of the re-emergence of erstwhile Lawyers Society of Nigeria (LSN), originally registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) on 28th December, 1994. With leading...
There are concerns in legal circles that a convicted fake lawyer, one David Adesanya may have gone back to carrying on the illegal practice of law. In a “Notice to Divorce” sighted by CITY LAWYER and dated 11th October, 2022 Adesanya had given one Mr. Seun Ayantunde, husband to Mrs. Omobake Ayantunde, “another 7 days...
FEATURED SOLAR FOR ALL: Stella Ofokansi Esq joins elite list of beneficiaries (in partnership with NBA Abuja, NBA Lagos, BOSAN Abuja, Otu Oka-Iwu Abuja, NBA Kano, NBA Gwagwalada, Medical Doctors at FMC Cooperative, FCT Pharmacies, and UNILAG College of Medicine Alumni among others). To get an efficient Solar/Inverter system for 24 hours electricity supply and...