Registration has commenced for the 2022 Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) holding in Lagos in August. The Technical Committee on Conference Planning (TCCP) for the 2022 Annual General Conference (AGC) announced this in a statement issued on Sunday, 12th June, 2022. Tobenna Erojikwe, Chairman, Technical Committee on Conference Planning (TCCP), said that registration for the conference...

Amanda Demechi-Asagba Commemorates June 12 ‘It’s a Unique Day to Celebrate the Joy of Freedoms Associated with Democracy’ A cursory look around reveals that several factors now threaten the ties that bind us as a nation. Therefore, on this day, I call on all state actors and stakeholders to rise up in giving effect to the true intent of our...

ISAAC OMUTA OGBAH, CANDIDATE FOR THE POSITION OF 3RD VICE PRESIDENT OF NBA CONGRATULATES ISAH ABUBARKAR ALIYU, ESQ, AND HIS TEAM OF NBA GWAGWALADA LED EXECUTIVE ON THE SUCCESSFUL TENURE OF YOUR ADMINISTRATION You have, over the past 2 years, devoted your time, energy and resources towards the service of the Bar and the welfare of all Members of the...

SAFIYA BALARABE SENDS MESSAGE OF HOPE TO NIGERIANS ON ACCOUNT OF DEMOCRACY DAY CELEBRATION Read below Safiya Balarabe’s message on Democracy Day celebration. “I am pleased to wish my fellow Nigerians a happy Democracy Day celebration. I am not unaware of the myriad of man-made challenges our democracy is beleaguered with. I am however a proponent of hope and an...

HAPPY DEMOCRACY DAY NIGERIA!!! To sustain the fight and struggle of our fallen heroes towards making tomorrow a reality for our children, we need to speak out at all time and work the talk. The man in a man dies when he refuses to speak against tyranny. It is only lawyers who can champion and influence this movement. It starts...

GOODWILL MESSAGE TO NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION BENIN BRANCH ON HER 2022 LAW WEEK The Lion Bar chose a great theme: “Security: Panacea for National Growth” and I congratulate the organisers, leaders and members of the branch on this auspicious occasion of the 2022 Bar Week. Security is a condition precedent to every human endeavour and its absence, known as insecurity,...

Democracy Day, and 2022 is the 20th Anniversary of this Day which used to be celebrated on May 29. Democracy is well known across the world as the method of governance which insists on the active participation of the people, in cooperation with the leadership. Democracy all over the world is a work in progress and every democratic government has...

LET’S BIRTH A NEW NATION OF TRUTH, UNITY, ONE DEVOID OF TRIBAL AND RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS, A NATION WHERE EVERY LIFE MATTERS AND A NATION SET TO BE THE PRIDE OF THE WORLD It’s yet another democracy day but sadly enough the democracy we claimed to practice is not one of the people but one which sidelines the people; is not...

The strident quest by Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Publicity Secretary aspirant, Mr. Felix Ashimole (aka Che Oyinatumba) to participate in the forthcoming NBA Elections has finally been laid to rest by the NBA National Appeals Committee, CITY LAWYER can authoritatively report. In a decision obtained by CITY LAWYER, the Appeals Committee affirmed its positions in similar cases that the inability...

My encounter with MR. CLEMENT UGO CHUKWUEMEKA, the chairman (as he then was) of NBA Bwari Branc and now a cleared candidate for the office of the 2nd Vice President in NBA Election 2022 As a young lawyer, I had the opportunity to handle one of the EndSars matters, precisely that of Eromosele “eromz”. Mr Chukwuemeka was already on ground...