In a move that demonstrates their continued faith in the Annual International Business Law Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL), over 50 corporate sponsors have thrown their weight behind the 16th conference coming up in Abuja in July. The sponsors include Corporate Affairs Commission, Aluko & Oyebode, Flutterwave, Banwo & Ighodalo, Africa Finance Corporation, Federal...

ADMINISTRATION OF OATH OF OFFICE TO JUDICIAL OFFICERS BY CHIEF EXECUTIVES: A SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF JUDICIAL SUBJUGATION By Jonathan Gunu Taidi, Esq. There is no gainsaying the fact that the judiciary in Nigeria is in a state of anomie and absolutely unable to operate like an independent arm of government rather than as an appendage of the executive. A plethora...

The resurgent umbrella association of lawyers of Yoruba extraction, Egbe Amofin O’odua has thrown its weight behind some candidates in the forthcoming Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) General Elections, even as it shunned adoption of any of the presidential candidates. In a statement made available to CITY LAWYER by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Yinka Sokoya, the Egbe “adopted” some of the...

BY REX ONYEKACHI UZOEGBU As the Great African Wooden Gong unendingly sounds with torrential lyrical frenzy renting the air to the delight of legal minds, we’re respectfully obliged and inclined to the standing ovation of an enigma; accomplished juggernaut, a legal icon, an uncommon Hero, Protector of the human race, former Action and unbeatable performing Chairman of NBA, Bwari, Erudite,...

ISAAC OMUTA OGBAH, NBA 3rd Vice Presidential Candidate attends MUSLIM LAWYERS’ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (MULAN) NEC MEETING In continuation of his quest to emerge as the 3rd Vice President of the NBA Mr. Isaac Ogbah attended the MULAN’s NEC meeting which held at the National Mosque Conference Hall in Abuja on the 2nd of December, 2022. At the MULAN’s NEC meeting...

Isaac Ogbah; the Man, who loves to serve. This is not mere rhetoric. Justified by nature, history is birthed daily by the activities of men. We may also put it this way: whatever we do today becomes that tale to be told thereafter. Isaac Ogbah has records of service within and beyond the bar. His trajectory in qualitative and selfless...

Mr. Chukwuemeka Clement Ugo, the sui generis Bar man, and a candidate for the office of the 2nd Vice President of Nigerian Bar Association in the forthcoming NBA National Election 16th July, 2022 felicitates with the leadership of NBA- SLP and delegates across the world for the Annual Conference 2022 with the Theme: Legal Practice in Nigeria: OUR REALITY, OUR...

GOODWILL MESSAGE BY ASENOGUAN OSAMUEDE ISOBOMUWA, CANDIDATE FOR NBA GENERAL SECRETARY TO THE YOUNG LAWYERS’ FORUM, AKURE BRANCH ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR DINNER AND AWARD NIGHT The young Lawyers’ Forum, Akure branch holds its Dinner/Award night, consequent upon which Mr Asenoguan a prominent candidate for NBA General Secretary has extended to the Forum a message of felicitation. Same is...

FEATURED Mr. Clement Ugo Chukwuemeka (Democrat), the immediate past Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Bwari Branch, Abuja, the sui generis Bar Leader and a candidate for the office of NBA 2nd Vice President in the forthcoming National NBA Election 2022, has launched his core 2 mandates video manifesto in a superb and apt manner. Click here to watch: https://fb.watch/dYmNMmc5Fk/ ...

Distinguished Learned Silks, Erudite Learned Seniors and my Esteemed Learned Colleagues, Please kindly support and vote Amanda Demechi- Asagba for NBA 3rd Vice President. Amanda Asagba is a woman of character and integrity and an excellent team player. Her popular slang: “No excuse for failure- get the job done.” I have served with her in AWLA Nigeria as AWLA Kwara...