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...
THE RETURN OF GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY: HOW LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION IS GAINING NEW RELEVANCE IN NIGERIA By Sylvester Udemezue (1) BACKGROUND For many years, conversations about governance in Nigeria often revolved around the Federal Government and the States, while the Local Government system, the tier of government closest to the people, appeared increasingly weakened, marginalized and...
BY NGOZI PRINCE IGBO The debate surrounding the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Uniform Bye-Law, particularly on eligibility to vote and be voted for, has continued to generate intense conversations within the legal profession. At the heart of this controversy lies the decision of the NBA Election Appeal Committee (North) on virtual meeting attendance and the...
ELECTORAL ACT 2026: Nigeria’s Revised Electoral Law Expands Spending Limits, Campaign Finance By Abdulrasaq Kamaldeen As the 2027 election gradually comes closer in Nigeria, the National Assembly has taken a bold step by making a substantial revision of the Electoral Act (2026). The revision is, among other things, aimed at regulating Nigeria’s campaign finance framework....