The Chair of Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL), Professor Uju Agomoh, has urged members of the 2026 SPIDEL Conference Planning Committee (CPC) to ensure that the forthcoming annual conference leaves a lasting legacy for the legal profession rather than becoming “just another conference.” Agomoh gave the charge on Thursday...
Bar Leaders and activists are lining up to celebrate prominent rights activist and former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Second Vice President, Dr. Monday Ubani SAN as he celebrates his 62nd birthday today. Opening the floodgate of birthday wishes, former NBA Assistant General Secretary, Mr. Okey Ohagba stated that “Today, we salute your unwavering courage and...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) as well as Africa Judges & Jurists Forum (AJJF) have condemned the abduction by suspected armed bandits of Justice Faruku Hassan Bunza of the Kebbi State High Court from his residence in Bunza Local Government Area of Kebbi State. They urged the Federal Government and relevant security agencies to protect...
THE CONTINUED RELEVANCE OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION BY JOSEPH BODURIN DAUDU NBA as the Nigerian Bar Association will be referred to herein as the umbrella body of all Nigerian Legal Practitioners. It is also a pressure group which ensures that all agencies and even government itself operate strictly within the bounds of the Rule...
The crisis rocking the planned election of officers to run the affairs of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Port Harcourt Branch peaked yesterday as members vigorously protested the plan by the Caretaker Committee to hold the election yesterday. It reportedly took a combined team of Police and Directorate of State Services (DSS) operatives to calm...
We are fixing doors, windows, P.O.P & fittings for the Mordi Esq’s Family [Coker Pharmacy Benin], who are participating in the Lawyers In Business Mass-Housing & Land-Banking Scheme, all the way from NBA Benin, Edo State; alongside Chief. G. C. Igbokwe SAN, the Former Chairman of Mid-west Bar Forum. Call/Chat: 08060266163, 08050489622 We are building...
The immediate past Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Port Harcourt Branch, Mrs. Cordelia Eke has been removed from the branch WhatApp platform by the Caretaker Committee appointed by NBA President, Mr. Afam Osigwe SAN to manage the branch affairs. In a statement made available to CITY LAWYER, Eke decried her expulsion from the...
Members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Port Harcourt Branch will tomorrow head to the poll to elect the next set of officers for the very influential branch. The election is however coming amid a cloud of issues, including an alleged injunction barring the election and a meeting requisitioned by some branch members for Election...
The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) has appointed 68 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) to the coveted rank. The appointment was ratified today at the committee’s 174th Plenary Session under the chairmanship of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun. CITY LAWYER recalls that the committee had mid last month shortlisted 77 candidates...
BY SOSEIPIRIYE LONG WILLIAMS Following the inability of the NBA PH Branch Electoral Committee to conduct elections to fill in the offices of the Branch executives on 26th June, 2026 by virtue of the order of Hon. Justice Sika Henry Aprioku sitting in Port Harcourt, the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mazi Afam Osigwe...