TAX REFORM ACTS CONTROVERSIES CAST DOUBT ON THE SANCTITY OF NIGERIA’S LAWMAKING PROCESS The controversies that have emerged in relation to the recently enacted Tax Reform Acts raise grave concerns about the integrity, transparency, and credibility of Nigeria’s legislative process. These developments strike at the very heart of constitutional governance and call into question the procedural sanctity that must attend...
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DEFILEMENT IS NOT NEGOTIABLE: WHEN PARENTS, POLICE BETRAY CHILDREN
By Okechukwu Nwanguma The alleged defilement of a nine-year-old girl in Amainyi Autonomous Community, Ihitte Uboma Local Government Area of Imo State, and the threats faced by a journalist investigating the case, expose a disturbing but familiar pattern in Nigeria’s response to sexual violence against children: impunity sustained by silence, compromise, and abuse of discretion. This must be stated loud...
‘NIGERIAN LAW SOCIETY CAN’T SHARE REGULATORY POWERS WITH NBA,’ SAYS OJUKWU
The Nigerian Bar Association and the Nigerian Law Society: On the Impossibility of Parallel Bar Associations in a Single Jurisdiction BY ERNEST OJUKWU I have read reports of Chief Mela Audu Nunghe, SAN, President of the Nigerian Law Society (NLS), and his presentation at the public hearing on the Legal Practitioners Bill 2025. In his address, he urged the Senate...
‘STATE OF EMERGENCY: INTERROGATING SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT,’ BY MONDAY UBANI
EMERGENCY POWERS, JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES, AND DEMOCRATIC SAFEGUARDS In this opinion article, Dr. Monday Ubani SAN, human rights activist and former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Vice President, critically analyzesthe latest Supreme Court’s decision on Emergency Rule and Suspension of Elected Officials in AG Adamawa & 10 Ors v AG of the Federation & Anor (Suit No. SC/CV/329/2025) Abstract The Supreme Court’s decision in Attorney-General...
NBA-SPIDEL VOWS TO PROVIDE FREE LEGAL SERVICE TO 115 INMATES IN UYO PRISON
* LIGHT UP CLINIC VIA SOLAR FACILITY * HAND-OVER SOLAR-POWERED BOREHOLE * GIFT XMAS COW, FOOD ITEMS TO INMATES * EXCITE INMATES WITH FOOTBALL MATCH The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law, NBA-SPIDEL, has expressed its willingness to provide free legal assistance to 115 inmates of the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Uyo, who currently have no...
NBA-LEC, LIBI HOLD CHRISTMAS COCKTAIL AND AWARD NIGHT
Sights and Sounds of the Lawyers In Business Cocktail and Award Night held in partnership with the NBA Legal Entrepreneurship Committee (NBA-LEC) A WELCOME ADDRES BY CHIEF. EMEKA SILAS AGBARA ESQ, DELIVERED AT THE 2025 CHRISTMAS COCKTAIL AND AWARD NIGHT OF THE Lawyers In Business Institute (LIBI) in Partnership with the Nigerian Bar Association Legal Entrepreneurship Committee, IN HONOUR OF...
SENIOR LAWYER PAPA DORNCKLAIMZ ENAMHE BAGS AKAN TRADITIONAL TITLE
Fiery senior lawyer and human rights advocate, PaPa Dorncklaimz Enamhe was today conferred with the prestigious traditional title of OVARR KWI “EDHICK OKHA” by the Akan Traditional Rulers Council of Ikom in Cross River State. CITY LAWYER gathered that the conferment ceremony coincided with the official launch of a book titled “Akam leadership and conflict management: A focus on micro...
PHOTONEWS: 40TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION OF LAW SCHOOL CLASS OF 1985 AT LAGOS ORIENTAL HOTEL
SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION OF THE CLASS OF 1985 AT LAGOS ORIENTAL HOTEL 16 DECEMBER 2025 To the glory of God Almighty, the Maker of Heaven and Earth, the much anticipated grand finale of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of our Call to the Nigerian Bar is now history. 16th December 2025 has finally come...
BISHOP KUKAH VISITS IPOB LEADER, NNAMDI KANU IN SOKOTO PRISON
Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, has visited the convicted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu in Sokoto correctional facility. Human rights activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, disclosed this today. He hailed the Catholic cleric for the visitation. Kanu was on November 20, 2025, convicted of terrorism...