BY OKEY LEO OHAGBA I write to convey my warmest felicitation to my most amiable Chair, Mrs. Cordelia U. Eke, the branch EXCO, the Law Week Planning Committee, and all esteemed members of NBA PH Branch on this momentous occasion of our 2025 Annual Law Week. Our theme, “Cutting Edge Legal Practice: Catching Up with Innovations & Re-inventions for Societal...

A petition filed by a group calling itself the Concerned Law Students of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti has urged the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Council of Legal Education to probe the professorial title awarded to the Edo State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Roland Otaru (SAN). In the petition dated December 7, 2025, and signed by Comrade K....

Non-litigation lawyers in the country now have an alternative to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) rank, which is conferred on legal practitioners who are judged to have demonstrated exceptional distinction in legal practice, according to the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners (ALDRAP). The SAN rank, conferred on lawyers by the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee, LPPC, is seen...

BY MONDAY UBANI As Nigeria deepens its digital transformation and expands its reliance on information and communications technologies, the tension between press freedom and cyber-security regulation has become increasingly pronounced. The Constitution clearly guarantees freedom of expression and the press under Section 39, while Section 22 imposes a duty on the media to hold government accountable. At the same time,...

Why Nigeria Should Embrace Multiple Bar Associations: A Perspective Inspired by Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, Chairman Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Recall that in the wake of the Judgment of Justice Glays Olotu of the Federal High Court ordering the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) to register the Nigerian Law Society (NLS) as an alternative association...