Former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) National Treasurer, Joyce Oduah has tasked NBA Akure Branch to “look at myriads of challenges facing our polity and proffer deep and lasting solutions.” In a Press Statement made available to CITY LAWYER, Oduah hailed the branch on its Law Week which kicked off today, “especially the intellectual discourse sessions.” Below are details of the...
SBL HOLDS FORUM ON BUSINESS STRATEGY TODAY
The Law Practice Management Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (SBL-LPMC) will today hold a forum in Lagos to educate lawyers on strategies for business realignment. In a statement by the Chairman of NBA Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL), Mr. Seni Adio SAN and made available to CITY LAWYER, the organisers stated that the workshop would...
MUOKA URGES EBF TO TACKLE NATIONAL ISSUES
Former Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Lagos Branch, Mr. Alex Muoka has urged members of the Eastern Bar Forum (EBF) to tackle “issues of compelling national urgency” as they meet today in the “Garden City” of Port Harcourt.
SPA AJIBADE BUSINESS LUNCHEON HOLDS TODAY
The much anticipated business luncheon sponsored annually by the leading law firm of S. P. A. Ajibade & Co will hold today in Lagos. According to a statement made available to CITY LAWYER, the event will hold at Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. The statement reads: All is set for the 2019 edition of the Annual Business Luncheon...
TRAINING ON COMPANY LAW & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FOR WEDNESDAY
A two-day packed workshop awaits participants at intensive training programme by experts on Company Law and Corporate Governance. Holding from tomorrow at Lekki, the workshop also attracts Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Mandatory Continuing Legal Education credits. Below is a statement from the organisers: Do you want to have a clear edge in Company Law & Corporate Governance? Would you...
NGIGE TO CHAIR LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI E-PORTAL LAUNCH
Leading litigator and Chairman of the Council of Legal Education (CLE), Chief Emeka Ngige SAN will hold court tomorrow as the 1989 Class of the Nigerian Law School launches its ground-breaking e-Learning/e-Mentoring/e-Continuing Legal Education (CLE) portal. The event is a part of the activities to mark the 30th anniversary reunion Dinner & Awards of the Nigerian Law School Alumni Class...
WE WILL BOYCOTT COURTS SOON IF…, WARNS USORO
PUBLIC PROTEST: FALANA STORMS ABA Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Mr. Paul Usoro SAN has warned that lawyers may soon embark on a boycott of the courts if judges of the Court of Appeal and Nasarawa Area Court are not freed by their kidnappers. Speaking at the opening ceremony of this year’s Annual Conference of the NBA Section on Public...
SPIDEL 2019: WE HAVE GREAT EXPECTATIONS, SAYS ANANABA
The Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL), Dr. Paul Ananaba SAN has assured delegates to this year’s SPIDEL Annual Conference that they are in for a pleasant surprise as the conference kicks off today with an opening ceremony. Speaking with CITY LAWYER on the grounds of the conference at ADDREX Hotels,...
TECH LAW SUMMIT HOLDS TOMORROW IN LAGOS
Stakeholders in the legal technology and innovation sector will tomorrow brainstorm on emerging trends in the industry at the 2019 Innovation and Tech Law Summit holding in Lagos. Billed to hold at the popular Commerce House, Victoria Island, Lagos, the event will witness the cream of industry experts dissecting several aspects of the subject. Below is a Press Statement made...
NBA ELECTIONS: EGBE AMOFIN MOVES TO PICK CONSENSUS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
Egbe Amofin O’odua, the once influential umbrella body of lawyers of Yoruba extraction, is set to forge a consensus towards the 2020 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Elections at its meeting today in Ibadan. A notice of meeting curiously sent out by the Publicity Secretary of NBA Ibadan Branch, Mr. Femi Omotayo stated that the meeting which starts at 11 a....