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....
EXCLUSIVE: NBA ELECTIONS – WHY EFCC QUIZED NBA CHIEFTAIN
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may have swooped on senior lawyer and Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) administrative lynchpin, Sarah Ajijola over an alleged cash payment received from one of the presidential candidates in the last elections. An impeccable source who is familiar with the EFCC investigations told CITY LAWYER that Ajijola, NBA’s Director of Membership & Bar Services,...
UNIFIED CRIMINAL CODE SOON – AKINSEYE-GEORGE
It was a charged atmosphere in Lagos as jurists dissected the draft Unified Penal and Criminal Codes initiated by the Centre for Socio-legal Studies. The roundtable which held at Lagos Ibis Hotel, Lagos was designed to seek inputs from stakeholders towards fine-tuning the draft into a bill. In a welcome address to the national workshop on the reform of criminal/penal...
CLAMPDOWN: AUTO DEALERS TO SUE CUSTOMS
A group of automobile dealers in Lagos State has threatened to drag the Nigerian Customs Service to court over the sealing of their business premises. In a letter to the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service through the law firm of Ubani & Co, the group condemned the September 30, 2019 raid and sealing of their offices by customs operatives,...