PRESS RELEASE Congratulatory message to the 62 successful applicants for the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigerian (SAN), 2022, by the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) It is my pleasure to congratulate the 62 successful applicants for the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, many of whom I know personally and I have interacted with professionally. Surely, to...

PRESS RELEASE Distinguished Colleagues, ELECTORAL REFORM COMMITTEE – CALL FOR MEMORANDA You will recall that the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Yakubu Maikyau, SAN in a bid to further improve electoral practices in the NBA, had earlier constituted the NBA Electoral Reform Committee. In furtherance of its mandates, the Electoral Reform Committee of the NBA hereby calls for Memoranda...

The Court of Appeal, Enugu Division has set aside the decision of the Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki delivered on 3rd August, 2022. In a unanimous decision in appeal No. CA/E/224/2022 between Labour Party and its officials and Eze Oko, the Court held that the appellants were denied fair hearing. The court upheld the argument by the Lead Counsel...

Dr. Victor Enebeli has been inaugurated alongside other young lawyers to spearhead the Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Port Harcourt Young Lawyers Forum (YLF). The inauguration ceremony was performed today by the Branch Chairman, Mr. Viktor Benibo. In attendance were members of the Branch Executive Committee among others. Aside from Enebeli who is the Chairman of the...

• 20 ADVOCATES, 47 ACADEMICS DROPPED * BOSAN WINS, AS LPPC REJIGS SAN GUIDELINES The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) has unveiled 62 senior lawyers who made the coveted rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria for the 2022 preferment programme. A breakdown of the list showed that the lawyers comprised 9 academics and 53 advocates. The number is 10 short...

Activist-lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo has vowed to drag the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola to court if the apex court jurist fails to provide him with information on Supreme Court’s finances. In a Pre-Action Notice to Justice Ariwoola, the activist stated that a similar notice to retired Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammad met a brick wall. According to another...

Mr. Ndifreke Aquaisua, a lawyer and former Executive Assistant to the immediate past Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) General Secretary, Mrs. Joyce Oduah, has described his former boss as high-handed and “schizophrenic,” saying she also called immediate past NBA President, Mr. Olumide Akpata “a wicked person.” In a response to Oduah’s letter to NBA President, Mr. Yakubu Maikyau SAN which was...

Fiery human rights lawyer, Mr. Maxwell Opara has demanded the resignation of the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba over his description of embattled Prof. Zainab Duke Abiola as “an Mbaise born Professor/Activist.” In a letter made available to CITY LAWYER and signed by Nnenna Maxwell Opara, the senior lawyer, who was described as “an illustrious son of Mbaise in...

PRESS RELEASE CALL FOR USEFUL INFORMATION Dear Distinguished Colleagues, This is to inform you that the NBA Conference Incident Investigation Committee (NBA-CIIC) has commenced an investigation into the incident of 23rd August, 2022, during the distribution of conference materials at the just concluded Annual General Conference. We are calling on members of the NBA and the general public with useful...

The Employment, Labour & Industrial Relations Committee (EIRC) of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) will on October 7, 2022 host its first-ever Sectoral Bar-Bench Forum on Employment and Labour Law. According to information made available to CITY LAWYER, the forum will henceforth be a permanent feature on the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) Annual Legal...