Bar Leader and Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Port Harcourt Chairman, Mrs. Cordelia Uwuma Eke has been appointed Permanent Secretary in the Rivers State Ministry of Justice by Governor Siminalayi Fubara. A consummate litigator and legal text writer, Eke’s profile peaked when she dusted a strong field of candidates to emerge the pioneer female Chairman of NBA Port Harcourt Branch. With...
CITY LAWYER PUBLISHER, NWADIOKE LOSES MOTHER
The death has occurred of Dame Roseline Chinwe Nwadioke, the mother of senior lawyer and President of CITY LAWYER Magazine, one of Nigeria’s foremost legal blogs. She was aged 95 years. It was gathered that Dame Nwadioke, a devout Christian and longstanding woman leader, died at the Federal Medical Centre in Lagos. She is survived by many children, grand-children and...
SEDC WILL NEED PROTECTION FROM POLITICAL EXTORTION
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu When he presented his budget proposals for 2024 to Nigeria’s National Assembly, the first full year of appropriations under his presidency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu identified as his priorities human asset development, poverty reduction and fighting insecurity. Last week, his official spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, appeared to forget or renounce that policy direction, when he acknowledged that...
‘NBA PRESIDENT, OSIGWE DIDN’T BRAND JUDGES, LAWYERS WORST BRIBE TAKERS’
Contrary to reports suggesting that the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, described judges and lawyers as the “worst bribe takers and givers,” a review of the full text of his speech shows that no such assertion was made. Excerpts from the address reveal that Osigwe neither labelled judges as the “worst bribe takers” nor...
CUSTOMER HITS OPAY WITH N50M SUIT, ALLEGES FROZEN ACCOUNT CAUSED FATHER’S DEATH
Opay Digital Service Limited, one of the fintech mobile money firms operating in Nigeria, has been dragged before a Federal High Court, Lagos, by one of its customers over alleged unlawful freezing of his account. According to the applicant, Moses King, the alleged illegal act led to his father’s death. King instituted the suit against Opay Digital Service Limited via...
NBA PRESIDENCY: ‘AFAM OSIGWE CONFERS PRIVILEGES ON BADEJO-OKUSANYA’
BY GODWIN EFFIONG Selective Neutrality and the Capture of NBA Leadership Hirelings of the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, tried to defend his narrative of the “right to choose” who succeeds him and his supposed promise of neutrality during the last NEC meeting in Maiduguri, yet his actions tell a very different story. Far from...
NBA-NEC: ‘ALL ASPIRANTS HAD EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO DISPLAY BRANDED MATERIALS’ – LOC
NEWS RELEASE ALL ASPIRANTS WERE GIVEN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO DISPLAY BRANDED MATERIALS AT THE MAIDUGURI NEC MEETING The attention of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the Maiduguri National Executive Council (NEC) Meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association has been drawn to various reports, commentaries, and interpretations arising from the presence of branded materials at the NEC meeting. As the...
‘FOR EGBE AMOFIN, AKINBORO: THOSE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULDN’T THROW STONES’
BY MUSTAPHA KASHIM Open Letter to Mr. Adetunji Oso, SAN: “Those Who Live in Glass Houses Should Not Throw Stones” Dear Mr. Oso, I read your recent blog post in which, as scribe of the Egbe Amofin Oodua Governing Council, you reportedly “formally drew the attention of NEC to what you described as a clear, disturbing, and unmistakable display of...
NBA UNVEILS AMENDED 2025 CONSTITUTION (DOWNLOAD)
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has unveiled its amended constitution titled Nigerian Bar Association 2015 (as amended in 2025). A certified copy of the amended constitution was made available to CITY LAWYER by an NBA officer. It is instructive that NBA President, Mr. Afam Osigwe SAN made references to the amended constitution in his report to the recently concluded NBA...
COURT ORDERS NBA TO HALT MANDATORY CPD enforcement (JUDGEMENT)
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja last Tuesday nullified aspects of the Nigerian Bar Association’s Continuing Professional Development (CPD) framework, ruling that professional rules cannot alter statutory conditions governing a lawyer’s right of audience in Nigerian courts. In a judgment delivered on January 27, 2026, in Suit No. FHC/CS/1238/2025: Victor Ozioma Nwadike v. NBA & 2 Ors, Hon. Justice...