By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Three score and three years ago, a defining dispute erupted in the old Western Region of Nigeria over the scope and reach of constitutional conventions in determining or terminating the tenure of high-level political leadership. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which ultimately had to pronounce on the matter, described...
HOW IMO GOVERNOR’S SYCOPHANTS MADE NIGERIAN LAWYERS “SEE IMO FINISH” LAST WEEKEND. By Chinedu Agu They say that a man who cuts off his nose to spite his face ultimately leaves himself with no face to show the world. Last weekend, from 10 to 12 July 2026, the Imo State Government, in its infinite wisdom...
BY MUHAMMAD IDRIS The recent press statement issued by the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) rejecting the intervention of the Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) in the ongoing controversy surrounding the forthcoming NBA National Officers’ Election is, with profound respect, unfortunate, legally unsustainable and inconsistent with the very principles of constitutionalism and...
Solicitors to the immediate past Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Port Harcourt Branch, Mrs. Cordelia Eke has warned Port Harcourt based lawyer, Mr. Tupele Jefferson Isoun “to pull down his nefarious posts and retract his false comments immediately on social media, in his own best interests.” CITY LAWYER recalls that Isoun had alleged...
By Embassy-Oseni Momodu Chief Mike Ozekhome, master of the robes is in the news. Nigerians home and diaspora continued to react over the Senior lawyer’s suspension by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee LPPC on June 24th, 2026 citing ongoing “disciplinary proceedings”. The rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) is the highest professional distinction for...
BY MONDAY UBANI A recent opinion published in The Whistler by my learned friend, Charles Udeh, Esq., applauded the decision of the Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja to set aside its earlier judgment directing the registration of the National Democratic Coalition (NDC) as a political party. The author argued that the earlier judgment was...
Nigeria has been blessed over the years with a rich supply of towering judicial intellect. The second Chief Justice of post-colonial Nigeria, Taslim Olawale Elias, for instance, was the country’s first law professor. In 1949, he became the first African to take a Ph.D. in law from the University of London. That was five years...
BY MONDAY UBANI Today’s passage of the historic State Police Bill marks a significant turning point in Nigeria’s constitutional and security history. With the passage of the Bill by the Senate, following its earlier passage by the House of Representatives, Nigeria has taken a bold and historic step toward restructuring its internal security architecture in...
Onimisi Stephen Obajaja’s Education, Focus and Fidelity Onimisi S. Obajaja holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of Benin and a Post Graduate Degree of the University of Lagos. He is a Legal Practitioner and Notary Public in Lagos, Nigeria, where he is a Partner at the Lagos Law firm of Fountain Court...
By Chinedu Agu The recent decision of the Imo State Judicial Service Commission [JSC] to narrow the list of candidates for the office of the substantive Chief Judge of Imo State to only Hon. Justice C.A. Ononeze-Madu and Hon. Justice E.O. Agada raises more questions than answers. Initially, in its communication to the Nigerian Bar...