The Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA) has released a video to enlighten eligible voters on how to engage in the verification exercise. The 2:22 minutes long video outlines the step-by-step procedure required to complete the verification exercise on the NBA website. It is recalled that the electoral committee had in its latest statement on the forthcoming NBA...
FIREWORKS, AS NBA ASKS COURT TO DISMISS OGUNLANA’S SUIT
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE • WARNS THAT GRANT OF ORDER WILL ‘CAUSE ANARCHY’ • SAYS COURT LACKS JURISDICTION TO HEAR MATTER • ‘THIS APPLICATION WILL TRUNCATE NBA ELECTION IF…’ • ‘WE HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG’ The Nigerian Bar Association has asked the Lagos High Court to dismiss the suit brought by controversial former NBA Ikeja Branch Chairman, Mr. Adesina Ogunlana seeking...
‘PAY YOUR PENSIONERS NOW,’ COURT ORDERS NNPC
The National Industrial Court in Lagos has ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and NNPC Pension Fund Limited to pay harmonised pensions to NNPC retirees. Justice Elizabeth Oji gave the two defendants 90 days within which to comply with the order, while also awarding N20,000 costs against them. The judge made the order in a judgment delivered on Monday,...
OGUNLANA SUES, ASKS COURT TO STOP NBA ELECTION IF…
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE • FATE OF ELECTION HANGS IN BALANCE • COURT SET TO HEAR SUIT FRIDAY The fate of the forthcoming Nigerian Bar Association National Officers Elections is now hanging in the balance as a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja will on Friday hear a lawsuit brought by controversial former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja...
EFCC SET TO ARRAIGN TWO LAWYERS OVER USORO’S ELECTION
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE CONFIRMS CITY LAWYER REPORT Echoes of the election that brought outgoing Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Mr. Paul Usoro SAN has reverberated as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may soon arraign suspects in the controversial election. Filed as Suit no FHC/L/118c/2020, the EFCC is, according to GAVEL INTERNATIONAL accusing the duo of Sarah Omeigha Ajibola,...
VERIFICATION: ECNBA EXTENDS DEADLINE, CITES MASSIVE LAWYERS’ INTEREST
The Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA) has extended the deadline for lawyers verify their profiles for the forthcoming NBA Elections. In an ECNBA Statement No. 015 titled “Extension of verification exercise” and signed by the committee Secretary, Mrs. Cordelia Eke, the electoral body stated that the verification exercise will now end barely three days to the election...
AKPATA CARPETS ECNBA, SAYS ELECTIONS WON’T BE FREE, FAIR
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE * SAYS NBA PORTAL IS ‘EXTREMELY POROUS,’ BEING MANIPULATED * ‘YOUR OPACITY IS A SOURCE OF CONCERN’ * WARNS THAT MANY ELIGIBLE VOTERS MAY BE SHUT OUT A leading presidential candidate in the forthcoming Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Elections, Mr. Olumide Akpata has raised alarm over what he called “looming disenfranchisement of voters and possible manipulation” of...
BAR LEADERS PROFFER ROADMAP FOR LAW SCHOOL, LEGAL PROFESSION
Bar leaders and academics at the weekend stressed the need to leverage alumni networks for the development of legal education and law practice. Speaking on the theme, “Alumni Networks and the Development of the Legal Profession in Nigeria” at a virtual conference hosted by the Nigeria Law School Class of 1989, a leading presidential candidate in the forthcoming Nigerian Bar...
‘TOLULOPE AROTILE AND MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS,’ BY ADEGBORUWA
Leading human rights activist, EBUN-OLU ADEGBORUWA, SAN pens a moving tribute to promising flying officer Tolulope Arotile who was cut down in her prime by alleged motor accident, saying that only a full-scale judicial enquiry will assuage the suspicion of a ‘hatchet job’ TOLULOPE AROTILE: SUNSET AT DAWN “Every person has a right to life, and no one shall be...
‘THE PLATFORM’ CANCELS NBA PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE SAYS ‘WE WILL KEEP YOU INFORMED ON ANY NEW DEVELOPMENTS’ The Platform Nigeria has formally canceled its planned “interactive session” with Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) presidential candidates in line with the disapproval of the programme by the Electoral Committee of the NBA (ECNBA). However, the promotional website for the aborted programme had not been pulled down at...