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,...
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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...
J-K Gadzama LLP, founded by the foremost Bar Leader and Life Bencher, Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama, SAN, successfully held its 10th Annual Moot and Mock Trial for Nigerian Law School Externs on Wednesday, 15 July 2026. The annual programme reflects Chief Gadzama’s unwavering commitment to giving back to the legal profession and investing in the development...
I have watched with philosophical calmness in the past months the campaigns for the office of the NBA President 2026 and having gone through their profiles and activities of all the candidates. I thereby wholeheartedly endorse BBOLD. Papa Dorn Cklaimz Enamhe PhD, FAPNM, FICMC (C) CITY LAWYER Magazine. All rights reserved. To join our Channel, click here. Click here to...
UPDATE ON 2026 NBA-AGC ACCOMMODATION NACO TRAVELS & TOURS LTD drops final batch of hotels for the conference Demand for accommodation is already on a high level with 90% of our 100 carefully selected partner hotels shortlisted for the conference fully booked. To make your reservation for the conference, kindly request for the hotel catalog...