I graduated with a degree in Business Management and reported for National Youth Service in November 1995. A year later, at our passing out parade, General Useni graced the occasion. He offered automatic employment to award winners — and I was among the fortunate few. That single moment would set my life on a trajectory...
DISCOURSE By Benjamin Obilor It is both baffling and disheartening that the leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), under the presidency of Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, has elected to dig its heels into the shifting sands of rigidity, despite the growing and legitimate outcry from lawyers, especially young, struggling practitioners over the implementation of...
NEWS RELEASE NBA National Litigation Committee Files ₦500 Million Suit Over Assault on Legal Practitioner Abuja, Nigeria — The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) National Litigation Committee has instituted a civil action at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory against four individuals—Williams Raymond, Fidelis Emmanuel Jacob, Sharon Alexander, and Itoro Dominic Robert — for...
My Long Road to Becoming A Lawyer: A Story of Dreams, Detours and Destiny It was 1988 at Union Secondary School Awkunanaw, Enugu. I was Deputy Senior Prefect, one of the best Arts students in the school. English, English Literature, and Government were my playground. I proudly carried our school’s banner in quizzes and debates,...
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, representing Kogi Central, has clarified her decision to delay her return to the Senate for legislative duties. It has been reported that the outspoken senator made this known during a recent interview with African Independent Television (AIT) where she emphasized that she was awaiting the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the court...
NEWS RELEASE 1. The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is irrevocably committed to giving effect to the mandatory provisions of Rules 11 and 12 of the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners (RPC), 2023 as well as the provisions of the mandatory Continuing Professional Development requirement as stipulated by the NBA Mandatory Continuing Professional Development...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) last Monday arraigned Awerusuo Otorudo and Chukwuebuka Ehirim before Justice Muhammed Umar of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. They were arraigned on a three-count amended charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence, inducement and misleading the public into a fraudulent investment scam. One of the counts...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Port Harcourt Branch has demanded probe of the death of its member, Mr. Bright Nda Owhor who was fatally shot last Saturday while on his way from work. In a letter made available to CITY LAWYER and addressed to the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, the branch leadership chronicled the...
RIGHT OF REPLY REBUTTAL TO DR. TONYE CLINTON JAJA’S OPEN LETTER: A MISGUIDED, MISINFORMED, AND MISCHIEVOUS INTERPRETATION OF A JUDGMENT The attention of discerning legal minds has been drawn to an open letter authored by one Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja, dated the 5th of July, 2025, addressed to His Excellency, the President of the Senate...
THIRD OPEN LETTER TO DR. UBANI: HOW HON. JUSTICE BINTA NYAKO’S JUDGMENT IS AN INDICTMENT OF DR. UBANI’S ROLE AS LEGAL ADVISER TO THE SENATE PRESIDENT FOR HIS VIOLATION OF SECTION 63 OF THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION AND FAILURE TO REVIEW THE STANDING ORDERS OF THE SENATE, 2023 AND SPONSORED ONLY THREE BILLS SINCE 2023 (TIME...