The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) will on July 16, 2022 conduct an election to fill vacancies in the National Executive Council (NEC) and the General Council of the Bar (GCB). A frenzy of activities and jostling has attended the run-up to the eagerly awaited elections. In this piece, and against the backdrop of release of the Election Guidelines by the...

Bar Leader and former Nigerian Bar Association Welfare Secretary, Mr. Adesina Adegbite has felicitated with the Midwest Bar Forum (MWBF) on its recent quarterly meeting. In a statement made available to CITY LAWYER, Adegbite said: “As the leadership of our noble Association is becoming more determined in pushing the frontiers of legal practice and justice system to enviable levels, I...

In this speech, the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Security Agencies Relations Committee (NBA-SARC) , CHIEF JOE-KYAI GADZAMA SAN tracks his sojourn into the legal profession and notes that if young lawyers “get counsel from the senior ones, engage them, look for someone as a role model and copy and paste with some few adjustments,” they will build successful...

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The Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN) has met with the management of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) towards improving the insolvency practice and licensing in the country. The President of BRIPAN, Mr. Ayodele Akintunde, SAN, who led the delegation to AMCON office in Abuja, said the agency had done a good job in trying to...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad and the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Olumide Akpata have agreed to set up a five-member committee “to work out the modalities for the implementation of the Justice Sector recommendation.” This was a fallout of the courtesy visit to Justice Muhammad by an NBA delegation led by Akpata. During the...

The immediate past Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) General Secretary, Mr. Jonathan Taidi has condoled the NBA leadership on the death of some lawyers in the attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train. Extending his condolence message to the Chairman and members of NBA Kaduna Branch in particular over the loss of three of its members, Taidi said: “My deepest sympathy is with...

The Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Security Agencies Relations Committee, Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama SAN has felicitated with the NBA Women Forum on its 2nd Annual Conference. Similar felicitations were delivered to the forum by the J-K Gadzama LLP Women’s Group and Young Lawyers Group of J-K Gadzama LLP. The leading arbitrator has also hailed NBA Uyo and Yenagoa...

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) recently organised a “Legal Education Summit” in collaboration with the Afe Babalola University. In a Goodwill Message to the Summit, Chairman of Council of Legal Education (CLE), CHIEF EMEKA NGIGE SAN embarks on a tour de force on efforts to rejig legal education in Nigeria and warns that scrapping the entire edifice in pointing to...

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo; Nigerian Bar Association President, Mr. Olumide Akpata and founder of Afe Babalola University, Aare Afe Babalola, have canvassed an overhaul of the curriculum for legal education to reflect contemporary reality. The legal giants and senior advocates identified an obsolete curriculum as one of the biggest challenges confronting the development of legal education in Nigeria. Osinbajo...