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...
The Rivers State Judiciary has refuted a report that one of its judges, Justice Boma Diepriye declared as “unconstitutional, null and void”, the appointment of Retired Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas by President Bola Tinubu as Administrator of the state. CITY LAWYER recalls that the social media was awash yesterday with reports that a Federal...
COMMENTARY YOUR EXCELLENCY, SIMINALAYI FUBARA, PLEASE COME TO THE RESCUE! BY MONDAY UBANI The ongoing controversy surrounding the N300 million donation by the Rivers State Government under Governor Siminalayi Fubara to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) for its forthcoming Annual General Conference has become a subject of national discourse, legal curiosity, and political undertones. Originally,...
Both the Rivers State Judiciary and the Rivers State Judicial Service Commission have disowned former Chief Magistrate Ejike George who sensationally stated that he resigned from judicial functions due to imposition of state of emergency on the state. Confirming CITY LAWYER exclusive report, the two entities stated that George was compulsorily retired from service due...
The last has not been heard about the sudden resignation of a Chief Magistrate in Rivers State reportedly due to his unease over the appointment of a Sole Administrator to oversee the affairs of the state. Mr. Ejike George, a Chief Magistrate in the Rivers State Judiciary, had tendered his resignation from service, saying: “This...
The Rivers State Government has demanded a refund of N300 million from the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) following the relocation of its 2025 Annual General Conference from Port Harcourt to Enugu. In a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant on Media, Hector Igbikiowubo, the state government criticized the NBA’s reasons for moving the event,...
A judge of the FCT High Court has held that Mr. Tobenna Erojikwe, a presidential candidate in the 2024 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Elections, “is justifiably an interested party, having contested an election conducted by the ECNBA on behalf of the 1st Defendant.” This view is contained in the judgment of the court delivered by...
UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTS OF THE RIVERS STATE SOLE ADMINISTRATOR IS A CLEAR POWER GRAB, MILITARY COUP, NOTHING TO DO WITH RESTORATION OF SECURITY. BY HON. C. I. D. MADUABUM On 18th March, President Tinubu promulgated an illegal state of emergency in Rivers State and unconstitutionally usurped the authorities of the elected structures in the state. He...