BY EMEKA NWADIOKE It is no longer news that the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has given all business owners and entrepreneurs a June 10, 2025, deadline to register their businesses or face prosecution. The warning is contained in a Public Notice issued by the Commission and dated April 29, 2025. The implication of the warning...
APPLICATIONS OF NON-INSIDERS GO INTO THE BIN, THE ‘SLOTS’ HAD ALL BEEN ALLOCATED TO THE SONS, DAUGHTERS, WIVES, RELATIVES OF ‘OWNERS OF THE JUDICIARY’ …. ODINKALU In what some stakeholders consider as a groundbreaking move, the National Judicial Council (NJC) introduced a policy aimed at enhancing transparency and accountability in the appointment of judicial officers...
BY CHISOM ONUOHA In the wake of the recent Supreme Court judgement concerning the leadership crisis in the Labour Party, considerable confusion has ensued regarding who rightfully occupies the position of National Chairman and which faction INEC should officially recognize. This advisory aims to provide legal clarity and guidance which, regrettably, some legal advisers have...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested former managing directors and senior officials of Nigeria’s three major state-owned refineries — Port Harcourt Refining Company, Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company, and Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company. The officials were apprehended over the alleged mismanagement of $2.96 billion earmarked for refinery rehabilitation projects. The arrested...
Fiery rights and good governance advocate, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu has berated the National judicial Council (NJC) for not taking harsher disciplinary measures against judges found to have compromised their judicial oaths. In a series of tweets seen by CITY LAWYER, the former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) stated that instead of praise,...
The Rivers State Government has queried the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Port Harcourt Branch, Mrs. Cordelia Eke over her role in the joint statement by NBA Rivers Chairmen which indicted the controversial Rivers State Sole Administrator, retired Vice-Admiral Ibok Ete-Ibas. CITY LAWYER recalls that the eight chairmen of NBA branches in Rivers...
The Council of Legal Education (CLE) has given the green light to five universities to commence admission into the Law programme. In a statement made available to CITY LAWYER, the Council also increased admission quota for Tier-1 University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) from 220 to 250 students. Confirming CITY LAWYER exclusive report, the statement also...
Two hundred and sixty students who sat for the November 2024 Bar Final Examinations have posted the much-coveted “First Class” grade, CITY LAWYER can authoritatively report. The figure represents only 3.6 per cent of the entire 7,134 students who sat for the examination. According to details obtained by CITY LAWYER, 940 students (13.2%) had their...
SAYS N300M NBA-AGC REFUND ‘DIVERSIONARY’ Foremost human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana SAN has urged the Nigerian Judiciary to speedily determine the tenure of the Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd). The fiery senior lawyer also decried the controversy surrounding the N300 million donation by the state to the Nigeria Bar Association...
PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE CHAIRMEN OF THE 8 (EIGHT) BRANCHES OF NIGERIA BAR ASSOCIATION IN RIVERS STATE ON THE RELOCATION OF THE NBA ANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE, THE DISMANTLING OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND DISREGARD OF THE RULE OF LAW IN RIVERS-STATE 15th April, 2025 We the Chairmen of the 8 (Eight) Branches of the Nigerian...