Nigerian international professional footballer, Mr. Ofoedu Francis Chikeluba, is at the centre of a growing controversy following allegations that a violent and unlawful eviction from his Lekki property culminated in the death of his tenant, Pastor Bolaji Olukotun, aged 67 years. The family of the deceased is pointing accusing fingers at officers of the Ilasan...
One of the candidates in the ongoing Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Elections, Mr. Yemi Akangbe SAN has demanded immediate suspension of the elections due to alleged irregularities. In a statement made available to CITY LAWYER, Akangbe set out the grounds to back his demand for immediate suspension of the elections, saying: “I have set out...
NEWS RELEASE NIGERIAN LAW SOCIETY CONCLUDES LANDMARK 4TH ANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE WITH RENEWED COMMITMENT TO CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW The Nigerian Law Society (NLS) has successfully concluded its 4th Annual General Conference, held virtually from 15–17 July 2026, bringing together distinguished jurists, Senior Advocates of Nigeria, academics, legal practitioners, policymakers and professionals...
Barring any last-minute hiccup, Nigerian lawyers will head to the poll tomorrow to elect the association’s 33rd president, other national officers and members of the General Council of the Bar (GCB). The build-up to the elections has been especially feisty, not least the dramatic and unprecedented arrest barely 48 hours to the election of one...
NBA ELECTIONS: EGBE AMOFIN O’ODUA REJECTS MISGUIDED NEC DECISION, DEMANDS TWO-WEEK POSTPONEMENT TO SAFEGUARD CREDIBILITY AND TRANSPARENCY The Minority Has Won Over the Silenced Majority — A Dangerous Precedent for the Nigerian Bar The Egbe Amofin O’odua, the umbrella body of lawyers of Yoruba extraction and a critical stakeholder in the Nigerian Bar Association, hereby...
By Sylvester Udemezue (1). INTRODUCTION The 2026 NBA national officers elections are no longer simply about choosing new officers. They have become a major test of institutional independence, electoral credibility and the ability of Nigeria’s legal profession to practise the democratic values it consistently preaches. The election has gone beyond a contest for office, and...
I am pleased to express my strong support for Chinelo Audrey Ofoegbunam in her bid for the office of National Welfare Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Over the years that I have known Chinelo, she has consistently demonstrated dedication, commitment to service, and a genuine passion for solving problems. She is dependable, hardworking,...
Other Professionals can participate! When we are done, his house will be generating at least 12 million per annum in Rent, because Estate is already bubbling with Residents and Tenants are looking for flats to rent. It is beyond the regular Real Estate; it is about helping create a rewarding and permanent extra Income stream...
PRESS RELEASE We are concerned that President Bola Tinubu has brought his state-sponsored toxic politics of coronation to bear on the election of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Curiously, this same strategy of imposition without allowing for free, fair and credible elections is what the Tinubu-led APC administration is working assiduously towards in the 2027...
The chicken has come home to roost, as they say. The current crisis in the Almighty one body of lawyers underscores the justification of having several associations of lawyers in a massively lawyer population such as Nigeria. A tendency of the bar, having seized the reigns of the electoral system for lawyers, is bent on...