PRESS RELEASE NBA CONSTITUTES FLOOD DISASTER RELIEF COMMITTEE The NBA President, Mr. Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, OON, SAN has constituted the NBA Flood Disaster Relief Committee which is to be headed by Mallam Yusuf Ali, SAN. The committee’s mandate is to raise funds, identify beneficiaries and design an equitable model for allocation of relief funds/materials to beneficiaries. The NBA President thanks...

ARABIC INSCRIPTION ON THE REDESIGNED NAIRA: MUHAMMADU SANUSI NOT A PAN NIGERIAN By Chief Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo After going through the statements credited to the deposed Emir of Kano and former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Muhammadu Sanusi, insisting that the Arabic inscription, will not be removed from the redesigned Naira notes, I came to the one and...

A High Court sitting in Enugu State has ruled that membership of the NBA is mandatory for all legal practitioners and therefore automatic upon call to Bar and/or on commencement and/or continuance of the practice of the Legal profession in Nigeria. The Court gave this decision in SUIT No. OB/27/2020: BEN OLOKO V. THE INCORPORATED TRUSTEES OF NIGERIA BAR ASSOCIATION...

Human rights lawyer, TUNDE KOLAWOLE has narrated his ordeal in the hands of alleged Department of State Services (DSS) operatives, saying there is a grand design to ruin him and his law practice. PAVING THE WAY TO PENURY: MY ORDEAL IN THE HANDS OF SECURITY AGENCIES MEALS are supposed to be enjoyed. But sometimes meals actually turn to saw dursts...

Former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) General Secretary JOYCE ODUAH spoke last Tuesday at the IBA on International Strategy and the International Bar Association: Building and developing an international strategy for young lawyers and its implementation. Among other reforms, she advocated for reduction of membership and conference fees for young lawyers from all jurisdictions and for all lawyers from developing nations....

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola and Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike are among dignitaries billed to attend the 2022 Annual Conference of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Nigeria Branch. The Annual Conference has as its theme “Restating the legitimacy of arbitration: Africa taking the lead,” and will hold from November 9 to 11, 2022 in Port...

Two suspects are now being investigated in connection with the death of Ifeanyi, the son of music star, David Adeleke (aka Davido) and his fiancée, Chioma Rowland. Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said: “Eight people were brought in for questioning, six people were allowed to go, the remaining two were the ones that have been placed...

A prominent Bar Leader, Mr. Jibrin Okutepa SAN has disowned a “Quit Notice” allegedly written by his former employee and bearing his office address. Noting that “the said quit notice did not emanate from my office and could not have emanated from my office,” Okutepa added that “I am surprised to see this carrying my office name of J. S....

BAR LEADERS BEHIND NEW BODY REVEALED More facts have emerged on how the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) rejected registration of the new lawyers’ union, citing conflict with the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). In a document obtained by CITY LAWYER, the CAC had refused to approve the name “Law Society of Nigeria” among two others, stating that the “name is closely...

Some Bar Leaders seem to have made good their threat to form a parallel lawyers’ association to assuage perceived wrongs within the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). This comes against the backdrop of the re-emergence of erstwhile Lawyers Society of Nigeria (LSN), originally registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) on 28th December, 1994. With leading insolvency practitioner, Mr. Kunle Ogunba...