* 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.

Mr. Muritala Oladimeji Abdul-Rasheed, Chief of Staff to former Nigerian Bar Association President, Mr. Abubakar Mahmoud SAN, has asked critics to probe the outgone administration, saying the regime has nothing to hide.

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has warned the political class not to plunge the country into chaos, especially as the 2019 General Election approaches.