CULTIVATING LEGAL TALENTS IN THE INTELLIGENT ERA: FROM LEGAL KNOWLEDGE TO HUMAN MASTERY By Raphael Christopher The intelligent era is transforming the legal profession. Artificial intelligence can analyse documents, research authorities, identify patterns and generate legal arguments at remarkable speed. Yet technology alone cannot produce wisdom, integrity, creativity or justice. The challenge for legal education...
NBA OWERRI CRISIS: THE GENERAL SECRETARY IS NOT ABOVE THE VICE-PRESIDENTS — LET US RESPECT THE NBA CONSTITUTION AND ALLOW ELECTED OFFICERS TO PERFORM THEIR DUTIES. A Constitutional Appraisal of the Three-Member Presidential Committee Investigating the Alleged Mismanagement of the ₦100 Million Imo State Government Gift to NBA Owerri Branch I have carefully examined the...
BY JUSTICE U. JOHN MEDICAL AND DENTAL PRACTITIONERS’ INVESTIGATION PANEL (MDPIP) ESTABLISHES A PRIMA FACIE CASE OF MISCONDUCT IN A PROFESSIONAL RESPECT AGAINST DR. ALIYU JOSEPH YAHAYA, THE RESPONSIBLE MEDICAL OFFICER WHO MANAGED THE LATE MRS AKUDO LOVELYN JOHN Ten months ago, the life of my dearly beloved wife, Akudo Lovelyn John was cut short...
The reported denial of entry to some Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) during the recent opening of the Legal Year and conferment of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria at the Supreme Court is deeply troubling to me and others and deserves serious reflection. Videos circulating online showed distinguished senior lawyers, fully robed and...
WHY AFRICANS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED IN MEAL CHOICES AT THE INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION CONFERENCES By Monday Ubani Two days ago in Copenhagen, Denmark, I took up the issue of meal choices for African conferees with one of the designated officers of the IBA. I made a passionate case for our diverse culinary preferences to be...
Human rights lawyer and political activist, Dele Farotimi, has announced his formal departure from Afenifere, ending an association with the Yoruba socio-political organisation that dates back to 1998. Farotimi announced his decision in a statement titled “My Exit from Afenifere,” in which he declared that he had formally severed all ties with the organisation and...
ANTHONY KILA: LET THE TRUTH COME OUT, BUT PLEASE, LET US NOT LOSE A HUMAN LIFE There is something about the Anthony Kila controversy that has begun to worry me beyond the allegations themselves. I have followed the unfolding events with concern, but what worries me most is the possibility of what this public humiliation...
In this article, CEO of Lawyers in Business International (LIBI) and newly appointed member of the Finance Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Abuja Branch (Unity Bar), SILAS EMEKA AGBARA guides lawyers on the route to financial freedom. FINANCIAL FREEDOMFinancial Freedom is the Second Level of Financial Security, the third and the ultimate being...
BY MONDAY UBANI Before the recent decision of the Federal High Court, Abuja, presided over by Hon. Justice Obiora Egwuatu, I was personally concerned about the peculiar predicament in which J-k Gadzama, SAN, found himself. The three-year suspension imposed on him by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) appeared capable of running its full course...
Justice Sylvanus Oriji Should Do the Right Thing & Recuse Himself from CV/008/2026, Safwan Garba & Anor v. Jordan Wike When the Chief Justice Sodeinde Sowemimo constituted panel of @SupremeCourtNg to hear the appeal in the governorship case of Jim Nwobodo v. Christian Onoh in the Anambra State election petition following the Anambra State governorship...