• 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...

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has strongly condemned invasion of the home of Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Kano Division, Justice Ita Mbaba by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a statement made available to CITY LAWYER and personally signed by NBA President, Mr. Yakubu Maikyau SAN, the association demanded an apology from the...

There was palpable confusion as a Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) officer, one G. Bakare barred a bus driver from riding with a passenger on the allegation that he is a ‘Yahoo boy.’  ‘Yahoo boy’ is a euphemism for someone engaged in financial scams. In several trending videos posted by the victim, Mr. Ibrahim Koletowo on his Twitter handle...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has clarified why its operatives visited the residence of the Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Kano Division, Justice Ita Mbaba, saying that it was a mere property verification visit. In a statement by its Head of Media & Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, the anti-graft agency stated that the jurist is not...

There is controversy over the invasion of the home of Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Kano Division, Justice Ita Mbaba by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives. Disclosing the invasion via his verified Twitter handle, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) General Secretary, Mr. Adesina Adegbite vowed that NBA would resist intimidation of the Judiciary. His words: “Armed...