BY EMEKA NWADIOKE Bar Leader and former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Lagos Branch Chairman, Mr. Chijioke Okoli SAN has given a pass mark to the just concluded NBA Elections, saying he is not surprised that tier-one solicitor, Mr. Olumide Akpata won the presidential poll. In an interview with CITY LAWYER, the fiery litigator stated that circumstances conspired to hand-over the...

BY EMEKA NWADIOKE • CONTRADICTS ITSELF ON NUMBER OF VERIFIED VOTERS • SET TO SUBMIT CLEAN LIST OF VERIFIED VOTERS TO BOT • ELECTIONBUDDY SUBMITS CERTIFIED RESULTS • ‘AUDIT WILL IDENTIFY EVERY VOTER, CHOICES’ • ‘THERE IS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT,’ SAYS TAWO There are strong indications that the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA) may have appeared before...

BY EMEKA NWADIOKE • ALSO, MORE VOTERS ON PORTAL THAN ON VOTERS’ REGISTER The tally of votes on the election portal deployed for the recently concluded Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Election is incorrect, CITY LAWYER can authoritatively report. Also, the Electoral Committee of the NBA (ECNBA) uploaded more voters than the number of voters published by the committee in its...

Nigerian Bar Association President-elect, Mr. Olumide Akpata has warned his supporters to desist from lampooning opponents while celebrating his victory at the poll. In a post trending on social media, Akpata chided “my supporters who have unnecessarily targeted and excoriated our colleagues for no just cause,” and warned that such attitude would detract from his quest to forge a united...

Leading human rights activist, MR. EBUN-OLU ADEGBORUWA SAN reviews the case of activist-lawyer Emperor Ogbonna and notes that his plight “highlights what the ordinary citizen goes through in the hands of agents of the State” “Every person shall be entitled to his personal liberty and no person shall be deprived of such liberty save in the following cases and in...

HOSTING RESULTS ON NBA PORTAL OPENS SYSTEM TO MANIPULATION NUMBER OF UNDELIVERED NOTICES IS STAGGERING BY ANY PARAMETER I DON’T BELIEVE PORTAL CAN SEND 5 NOTICES TO A VOTER IT’S LAUGHABLE TO BLAME DND FOR UNDELIVERED NOTICES Dr. Dominic Ehiwe is a Consultant in digital forensics & open source intelligence as well as an investigator for software, technology and intellectual...

BY EMEKA NWADIOKE SAYS ‘HE PREPARED TO FAIL’ ‘HIS AGENT ONLY CAME TO SITUATION ROOM TO SUBMIT PETITION’ The controversies trailing the recently concluded Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) National Officers Elections took a new turn today following a fierce indictment of erstwhile presidential candidate, Mr. Dele Adesina SAN by an aide of NBA President-elect, Mr. Olumide Akpata. It is recalled...

BY EMEKA NWADIOKE • ‘NBA LEADERSHIP TOOK LAWYERS TO SLAUGHTER SLAB’ Longstanding Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Chief Prosecutor at the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC), Mr. Jibrin Okutepa SAN at the weekend took a hard look at the just concluded NBA Elections and declared that it was rigged. In a reaction made available exclusively to CITY LAWYER, the fiery senior...

FEATURED Virtual LegalTech Conference unveils New Ecosystem for Client/Lawyer Engagement and Administration of Justice in Nigeria Post COVID-19 As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage economies all around the world, there has been an increased pivot in the use and adoption of technology across several industries, where hitherto technology was a mere tool and not a driver of day to...