NEWS RELEASE The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest Litigation and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL) visited the Maximum Security Custodial Centre (MSCC), PORT HARCOURT , Rivers State, as part of efforts to promote access to justice and provide legal assistance to inmates. The delegation, led by the Chairperson of NBA-SPIDEL, Prof. Uju Agomoh, was received...
INAUGURAL ADDRESS PROTOCOLS Today, I stand before you with a heart full of gratitude, a profound sense of humility and responsibility, and an unshakable faith in the future of our profession. Twenty-four years ago, in August 2002, I attended my first Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association as a newly called lawyer. At...
BABANGIDA, SHETTIMA, ATIKU, IZINYON, ADOKE, OBAIGBENA, OTHERS CONDOLE DODO OVER MOTHER’S PASSING Former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.); Vice President Kashim Shettima; former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; Adamawa State Governor, Umaru Fintiri; Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori; Chairman/Editor-in-Chief of THISDAY/ARISE Media Group, Prince Nduka Obaigbena; former Senate President, David Mark, and the Minister of...
The Expedited Path to Fellowship (EPF) is a specialized training that equips experienced arbitration professionals with construction-industry-specific knowledge needed to earn Fellowship of ICIArb — without going through the standard entry route. DID YOU KNOW? If you’re already a Fellow of another arbitration body, you don’t have to start your journey with ICIArb from scratch....
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr. Monday Onyekachi Ubani, has criticised the organisation of the Nigerian Bar Association’s 66th Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt, saying the event fell below expected standards and exposed serious shortcomings in logistics and planning. Speaking on Sunrise Daily on Friday, a day after publishing an interim assessment of the...
VALEDICTORY SPEECH WE CAME TO SERVE. WE LEAVE A STRONGER BAR. Today, as I hand over the leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association to a new National Executive Committee, I do so with a heart full of gratitude and a deep sense of fulfilment. Two years ago, I accepted the responsibility of leading our great...
The 2027 African Action Congress Presidential candidate, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, has made mockery of former Rivers State governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, as flood disrupted delegates at the venue of the 2026 Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt. Sowore, in a post on his X handle on Saturday, took a jibe at Amaechi...
BY CHUKWUEMEKA KENE OKEKE After several days at the NBA Annual General Conference, I can confidently confirm that these lawyers actually exist. And perhaps that is the funniest part of the NBA AGC: by the end of the conference, most of us have become at least two or three of these lawyers. So tell me,...
By Raphael Christopher NIGERIA MUST REFORM CHILD JUSTICE — NOT SIMPLY EXPAND DETENTION A NATIONAL CHILD JUSTICE EMERGENCY The revelation that approximately 26,000 Nigerian children enter custodial and remand facilities every year, that about 74% remain in pre-trial detention, and that 68% have no lawyer from their first contact with the justice system, should trouble...
WHAT’S IN A NAME? Patrick O. Okigbo III By placing Chima Ubani’s name on a hospital, Alex Otti has offered Nigeria a different measure of a life worth honouring. Governor Alex Otti has named an 80-bed hospital after Chima Ubani. The news will struggle to survive the week’s noise. A hospital has been built. A...