The 2026 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) National Elections will go down in history as one of the fiercest contests in the association’s recent history. THE BUILD-UP There is no gainsaying that the build-up to the elections was characterized by high stakes politicking and intrigues that tested the wits and resolve of many stakeholders. Predictably, the...
By Favour Abalaka For the first time in Nigeria’s legal history, four women simultaneously sit at the helm of the judiciary’s highest echelons, legal education, and the Bar. FAVOUR ABALAKA takes a look at the careers of Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun (Chief Justice of Nigeria and Head of the Supreme Court), Justice Monica Bolna’an Dongban-Mensem (President...
The presidential candidate in the just concluded Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Elections Olumuyiwa Akinboro SAN has urged the Directorate of State Services (DSS) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) among other entities and persons to investigate the recently concluded NBA Elections. In a 41-page statement he made available to CITY LAWYER, the former NBA...
Presidential candidate in the recent Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Elections, Olumuyiwa Akinboro SAN has told CITY LAWYER that he may levy a lawsuit over the outcome of the elections. CITY LAWYER recalls that Akinboro had rejected the outcome of the election as declared by the Electoral Committee of the NBA (ECNBA), saying that he and...
THE CONTINUED RELEVANCE OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION BY JOSEPH BODURIN DAUDU NBA as the Nigerian Bar Association will be referred to herein as the umbrella body of all Nigerian Legal Practitioners. It is also a pressure group which ensures that all agencies and even government itself operate strictly within the bounds of the Rule...
The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) has appointed 68 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) to the coveted rank. The appointment was ratified today at the committee’s 174th Plenary Session under the chairmanship of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun. CITY LAWYER recalls that the committee had mid last month shortlisted 77 candidates...
The three presidential candidates in the hotly contested 2026 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Election did not vote either for themselves or for their opponents during the election, CITY LAWYER can authoritatively report. CITY LAWYER investigation shows that the name of NBA President-elect, Mrs. Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya SAN’s is missing both from the voters’ register published by...
Senior lawyer Mrs. Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya is set to be declared winner of the hotly contested Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) presidential election. The Chairman of the the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA), Mr. Aham Ejelam told CITY LAWYER that the results would be announced by 10 am today. Of the 82,172 registered voters,...
Barring any last-minute hiccup, Nigerian lawyers will head to the poll tomorrow to elect the association’s 33rd president, other national officers and members of the General Council of the Bar (GCB). The build-up to the elections has been especially feisty, not least the dramatic and unprecedented arrest barely 48 hours to the election of one...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan has decided that the controversial “Directions” issued in respect of the forthcoming Nigerian Bar association (NBA) Elections has no legal footing to stand on. In a certified copy of the judgement in an Appeal No. CA/IB/110/2026 filed by the Electoral Committee of the NBA (ECNBA) members against an...