Amnesty International Nigeria has invited Nigerians to sign an online petition calling for action over comments attributed to Senator Francis Fadahunsi ahead of Saturday’s Osun State governorship election. The organisation made the call on Friday in a series of posts on its official X account. Amnesty said the petition was aimed at ensuring that Fadahunsi,...
Today, in the spirit of engineering institutional memory and accountability, we begin a series on the Afam Osigwe Legacy. The Series will highlight opinions of lawyers and justice sector stakeholders on the stewardship of Mr. Afam Osigwe SAN as the 32nd Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President. AFAM OSIGWE’S PRESIDENCY: A TENURE OF COURAGE, REFORM, AND...
NEWS RELEASE “No Shortcuts: NBA Insists on Rule of Law for a Free, Fair, Credible and Peaceful Osun Governorship Election” With the highly anticipated Osun State Governorship Election scheduled for Saturday, August 15, 2026, preparations have reached a critical stage. In a series of high-level stakeholder engagements, the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA),...
Members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Port Harcourt Branch will tomorrow head to the poll to elect the next set of officers for the very influential branch. The election is however coming amid a cloud of issues, including an alleged injunction barring the election and a meeting requisitioned by some branch members for Election...
NBA ELECTIONS: EGBE AMOFIN O’ODUA REJECTS MISGUIDED NEC DECISION, DEMANDS TWO-WEEK POSTPONEMENT TO SAFEGUARD CREDIBILITY AND TRANSPARENCY The Minority Has Won Over the Silenced Majority — A Dangerous Precedent for the Nigerian Bar The Egbe Amofin O’odua, the umbrella body of lawyers of Yoruba extraction and a critical stakeholder in the Nigerian Bar Association, hereby...
By Sylvester Udemezue (1). INTRODUCTION The 2026 NBA national officers elections are no longer simply about choosing new officers. They have become a major test of institutional independence, electoral credibility and the ability of Nigeria’s legal profession to practise the democratic values it consistently preaches. The election has gone beyond a contest for office, and...
I am pleased to express my strong support for Chinelo Audrey Ofoegbunam in her bid for the office of National Welfare Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Over the years that I have known Chinelo, she has consistently demonstrated dedication, commitment to service, and a genuine passion for solving problems. She is dependable, hardworking,...
The chicken has come home to roost, as they say. The current crisis in the Almighty one body of lawyers underscores the justification of having several associations of lawyers in a massively lawyer population such as Nigeria. A tendency of the bar, having seized the reigns of the electoral system for lawyers, is bent on...
I have watched with philosophical calmness in the past months the campaigns for the office of the NBA President 2026 and having gone through their profiles and activities of all the candidates. I thereby wholeheartedly endorse BBOLD. Papa Dorn Cklaimz Enamhe PhD, FAPNM, FICMC (C) CITY LAWYER Magazine. All rights reserved. To join our Channel, click here. Click here to...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has released the Managing Director of the Nigerian Bar Association’s (NBA) election service provider following his arrest and detention ahead of the association’s national elections. Confirming the development on its official X handle, NBA wrote: “The development came as the National Executive Council (NEC) of the NBA reaffirmed that...