Nigerian Bar Association President-elect, Mr. Olumide Akpata has warned his supporters to desist from lampooning opponents while celebrating his victory at the poll. In a post trending on social media, Akpata chided “my supporters who have unnecessarily targeted and excoriated our colleagues for no just cause,” and warned that such attitude would detract from his quest to forge a united...

Leading human rights activist, MR. EBUN-OLU ADEGBORUWA SAN reviews the case of activist-lawyer Emperor Ogbonna and notes that his plight “highlights what the ordinary citizen goes through in the hands of agents of the State” “Every person shall be entitled to his personal liberty and no person shall be deprived of such liberty save in the following cases and in...

HOSTING RESULTS ON NBA PORTAL OPENS SYSTEM TO MANIPULATION NUMBER OF UNDELIVERED NOTICES IS STAGGERING BY ANY PARAMETER I DON’T BELIEVE PORTAL CAN SEND 5 NOTICES TO A VOTER IT’S LAUGHABLE TO BLAME DND FOR UNDELIVERED NOTICES Dr. Dominic Ehiwe is a Consultant in digital forensics & open source intelligence as well as an investigator for software, technology and intellectual...

BY EMEKA NWADIOKE SAYS ‘HE PREPARED TO FAIL’ ‘HIS AGENT ONLY CAME TO SITUATION ROOM TO SUBMIT PETITION’ The controversies trailing the recently concluded Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) National Officers Elections took a new turn today following a fierce indictment of erstwhile presidential candidate, Mr. Dele Adesina SAN by an aide of NBA President-elect, Mr. Olumide Akpata. It is recalled...

BY EMEKA NWADIOKE • ‘NBA LEADERSHIP TOOK LAWYERS TO SLAUGHTER SLAB’ Longstanding Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Chief Prosecutor at the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC), Mr. Jibrin Okutepa SAN at the weekend took a hard look at the just concluded NBA Elections and declared that it was rigged. In a reaction made available exclusively to CITY LAWYER, the fiery senior...

FEATURED Virtual LegalTech Conference unveils New Ecosystem for Client/Lawyer Engagement and Administration of Justice in Nigeria Post COVID-19 As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage economies all around the world, there has been an increased pivot in the use and adoption of technology across several industries, where hitherto technology was a mere tool and not a driver of day to...

BY EMEKA NWADIOKE • EGBE BLOC CONGRATULATES AKPATA, ASSURES SUPPORT • ADESINA PETITIONS NBA TRUSTEES  Cracks have emerged within Egbe Amofin O’odua ranks as a major bloc in the influential regional group has congratulated Nigerian Bar Association President-elect, Mr. Olumide Akpata on his victory at the poll. Meanwhile, there are strong indications that Egbe Amofin O’odua may have barred its...

BY EMEKA NWADIOKE Encomiums have continued to pour in for Nigerian Bar Association President-elect, Mr. Olumide Akpata over his victory at the just concluded NBA National Officers Elections. In his congratulatory message, President Muhammadu Buhari said: “I congratulate Olumide Akpata on his election as the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), a crucial stakeholder in our democracy. I wish...

BY EMEKA NWADIOKE Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Mr. Paul Usoro SAN has committed to bridge the schism that has attended the just concluded NBA National Officers Elections. CITY LAWYER recalls that one of the presidential candidates in the race, Mr. Dele Adesina SAN had in a searing petition to the Electoral Committee (ECNBA) carpeted the poll as a “sham...

BY EMEKA NWADIOKE Erstwhile Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) presidential candidate, Mr. Dele Adesina has said that it was the association and not him or his supporters that lost the recently concluded election. In a statement dripping with passion, Adesina also warned that NBA may have “lost the last opportunity to re-invent itself,” adding that “time will tell.” He described the...