The National Human Rights Commission has documented no fewer than 3,012 incidents of kidnapping and 3,584 killings in Nigeria between January 2024 and April 2025. According to the NHRC dashboard, Kaduna, Benue, Katsina, Plateau, and Borno states were the top five states with the highest number of killings between January and June 2024. In June...
Tributes have started pouring in for former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mohammed Uwais, who passed away today in Abuja. Noting that Justice Uwais would have been 89 years on 12 June, 2025, senior lawyer, Mr. Ali Aikhunegbe Malik SAN recalled that the respected jurist “was the longest-serving Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria...
The Council of Legal Education (CLE) has revealed that the Nigerian Police is now investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a student at the Dr. Nabo Graham Douglas Campus of the Nigerian Law School, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. In a statement made available to CITY LAWYER, the Council assured all stakeholders that it would...
NEWS RELEASE MANDATORY COMPLIANCE WITH NEW NBA-ICLE MCPD RULES FOR PRACTICE LICENCE RENEWAL The Nigerian Bar Association Institute of Continuing Legal Education (NBA-ICLE) has formally announced the Mandatory Continuing Professional Development (MCPD) Rules as approved at the recent NEC Meeting held in Akure, Ondo State. These rules are now effective immediately and carry significant implications...
Since the above story began to trend, I have watched and listened to the contributions and opinions of people and I have decided to come out with my own angle of the story as the sufferer of the attack. When the press gives a story, the professional words often used are; allegedly, believed, perceived etc....
The scheduled arraignment of Halima Buba, Managing Director/CEO of SunTrust Bank Ltd, and Innocent Mbagwu, Executive Director/Chief Compliance Officer, was stalled due to the absence of the defendants. The case, which is before Justice Emeka Nwite at the Federal High Court in Abuja, centers on a $12 million fraud allegation brought by the Economic and...
Dispelling the Myth of Equal Division in Matrimonial Property Settlement: A Reaffirmation of Legal Principles in Aguolu v. Aguolu (2025) LPELR-80269 (CA) By Monday Ubani I consider myself privileged to have completed an advanced course on the Matrimonial Causes Act at Babcock University in 2024, under the esteemed instruction of Prof. Dorcas Odunaike, one of...
A Prosecution Witness with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Alvan Grumnaan, has narrated how an aide to the embattled former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, received a total sum of $17.1 million over a three-year period. Grumnaan is the Head of Special Duty 77 (Special Operations Team) who claimed...
By Emeka Nwadioke The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL) has fallen on hard times for some time now. While there was a simmering face-off between the immediate past NBA President, Mr. Yakubu Maikyau SAN and estranged NBA-SPIDEL Chairman, Mr. John Aikpokpo-Martins, the tussle peaked with the dismissal of the...
NEWS RELEASE “You Cannot Jail a Citizen for Choosing Silence: The Nigerian Bar Association Condemns Compulsory Voting Bill as Unconstitutional and Draconian” The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) unequivocally condemns the proposed bill seeking to amend the Electoral Act 2022 to make voting compulsory for all eligible Nigerians, describing it as an unconstitutional affront to civil...