The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has criticized the Federal Government and security agencies for the killings that have bedeviled the legal profession and the judiciary. The NBA was responding to recent killing of a magistrate and two lawyers.

* Victims to be Buried Wednesday Suspected assassins have gunned down the parents of Mr. Andrew Malgwi, a Partner in the law firm of Messrs Rickey Tarfa & Co. Dr. Mwajim Malgwi, a renowned medical doctor and proprietor of Polyclinic in Jimeta, Yola was killed alongside his wife and maid by unknown gunmen around Boggare village, Jimeta, Yola. They were...

* Carpets Mahmoud for Appointing ZDIC Chairmen with “horrible reputation” Former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) presidential candidate, Prof. Ernest Ojukwu SAN has hailed NBA President, Mr. Paul Usoro SAN for publishing the financial statements for the lawyers’ body.

• Lawyers’ Body Fails to Submit Report • Program Officer Calls for Probe • Usoro regime has damaged NBA brand – Murray • Says Usoro resiled from pledge to Mahmoud • ‘We spent only about N100 Million’

The first National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting under the leadership of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Mr. Paul Usoro SAN will hold at NBA House, Abuja on Thursday, December 6, 2018.

1. Introduction When I received the letter from the Director General, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) inviting me to deliver the 2018 Fellows’ Lecture, a myriad of questions began to flood my mind: Why Corruption? Why not Insecurity or Elections, or Democracy, or Good Governance, or the Role of Judges, or that of the Military, or Police, or...

Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama SAN will early next year know the outcome of his long-drawn lawsuit challenging the election of former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Mr. Abubakar Mahmoud NBA.

Access to Justice (A2J) and the Network on Police Reforms in Nigeria have requested the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. António Guterres to visit Nigeria to investigate the killing of Shiite protesters by men of the Armed Forces.

* Ojukwu Writes NBA, Demands Full Disclosure The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) may have become technically insolvent following a huge debt overhang that has hobbled the activities of the lawyers’ body. This is coming on the heels of the association’s inability to promptly pay staff salaries as well as meet other obligations as they fall due.

Lawyers have warned entertainment industry practitioners to ensure that their transactions are given legal teeth in order to avoid business failures.