The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has asked the Inspector-General of Police Tunde Disu to deploy all resources to ensure the safe return of missing young lawyer Eunice Ameh whose disappearance in Abuja has raised widespread concern on safety in Nigeria’s seat of power.

CITY LAWYER investigation shows that Eunice Aladi Ameh was admitted to the Nigerian Bar in 2025.

In a statement he personally signed by NBA President Afam Osigwe, he noted that Ameh’s disappearance “has deeply shaken the entire legal community,” adding that “We therefore call on the Inspector General of Police to urgently deploy all necessary tactical and intelligence resources toward securing Eunice’s safe release and ensuring that anyone connected to her disappearance is swiftly brought to justice.”

Below is the full text of the statement.

NBA PRESIDENT: RELEASE EUNICE AMEH NOW!

When a young lawyer goes missing, the pain is not distant to the Nigerian Bar Association, it is personal. We are more than a professional body; we are a community bound by shared sacrifice, shared dreams, and a collective duty to stand for one another.

The disappearance of Miss Eunice Ameh, our dear colleague and a young Nigerian serving her country through the NYSC scheme, has therefore deeply shaken the entire legal community.

Behind every missing person report is a family unable to sleep, friends clinging to hope, and colleagues praying for safe return. No young Nigerian who answered the call to national service should disappear without an immediate, coordinated, and determined response from our security agencies.

We therefore call on the Inspector General of Police to urgently deploy all necessary tactical and intelligence resources toward securing Eunice’s safe release and ensuring that anyone connected to her disappearance is swiftly brought to justice.

This is not a moment for routine assurances. Every passing hour matters, and every effort must count.

We stand firmly with her family, friends, and colleagues in this painful time, and we urge anyone with useful information to cooperate with the authorities so that Eunice Ameh can safely return home.

Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN
President, Nigerian Bar Association

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