What was meant to be a political conversation at the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt quickly turned into one of the liveliest sessions of the day. At the session themed “Politics, People, and Nigeria’s Future: Forget the Slogans,” Omoyele Sowore challenged both Peter Obi and Rotimi Amaechi over their records...
What was meant to be a political conversation at the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt quickly turned into one of the liveliest sessions of the day. At the session themed “Politics, People, and Nigeria’s Future: Forget the Slogans,” Omoyele Sowore challenged both Peter Obi and Rotimi Amaechi over their records...
The alarming use of artificial intelligence in the legal profession has raised difficult questions about accuracy, professional responsibility and the limits of technological assistance. A recent decision of the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Johannesburg, has brought one of those questions into sharp focus: what should happen when material apparently generated by artificial...
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...