I write to convey my warmest note of felicitation to the Elder E. I. Nwude led branch Executive, the Law Week Planning Committee, and the entire members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Bwari Branch, on this occasion of your 2026 Law Week. Your chosen theme; “The Leadership Challenge In Nigeria: The Way Forward, Beyond...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Remuneration Committee, led by Chief Emeka Obegolu, PhD., SAN, has formally notified all banks in Nigeria, to comply with the Legal Practitioners’ Remuneration Order 2023, which took effect on May 16, 2023. The Order, issued under Section 15(3) of the Legal Practitioners Act, sets a minimum fee structure for legal...
A leading aspirant in the forthcoming Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) 2026 Presidential Election, Mrs. Oyinkan Badejo-Okusanya SAN has concluded consultations with lawyers across three jurisdictions, namely Aba, Owerri, Umuahia, and Orlu. Badejo-Okusanya ended her consultations by attending the child dedication of a Bar Leader and former Imo State Attorney-General & Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ndukwe...
Jury selection is to begin in a high-profile legal battle between billionaire Elon Musk and artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, which he accuses of betraying its non-profit mission. The clash in a courtroom across the bay from San Francisco pits the world’s richest man against a startup that Musk once backed and now competes against in...
The United States Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad. Under President Joe Biden, the Justice Department reversed much of the work done under President Donald Trump’s first administration related to expanding the...
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Mr. Afam Osigwe SAN; Chairman of the 2025 NBA Section on Legal Practice (NBA-SLP) Annual Conference Planning Committee, Chief Paul Harris Ogbole SAN, and Mr. M. A. Attah SAN are among many jurists and Bar Leaders billed to descend on Yola, the Adamawa State capital, for this year’s Gabriel Adikwu...
A leading aspirant in the forthcoming Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) 2026 Presidential Election, Mrs. Oyinkan Badejo-Okusanya SAN was in Port Harcourt to participate in the just-ended NBA Young Lawyers Forum (YLF) Summit. In a video clip seen by CITY LAWYER, Badejo-Okusanya was seen being warmly welcomed by prominent Bar Leaders and young lawyers alike. Reviewing...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a former chairman of defunct Skye Bank Plc, Tunde Ayeni, over alleged money laundering, misappropriation and diversion of N36,540, 058,400,00 and $30m funds. It was gathered that Ayeni was arrested in Abuja on Thursday, April 23, 2026 and was kept at the EFCC’s holding facility. According...
The Nigerian military has inaugurated a General Court-Martial to try officers accused of plotting a coup to remove the President Bola Tinubu government from office unconstitutionally. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the accused officers were brought to the venue of the sitting, the Guards Brigade Scorpion Mess, Asokoro, at about 8:53 a.m....