Senior lawyer and chieftain of the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners (ALDRAP), Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja has vowed that no court can gag him because all his writings are based on the truth. In an “open letter” to fiery human rights activist and former Nigerian Bar Association Vice President, Dr. Monday Ubani SAN,...
NBA Says Uyo Resolutions Were Taken to Prevent Electoral Crisis and Restore Stability in SPIDEL Dear Colleagues, The 1st Vice President, Mr. Sabastine Anyia, has issued a statement addressing the SPIDEL issues. Members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) have recently been exposed to misleading narratives regarding the 2025 SPIDEL elections. While individuals are entitled...
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN LAWYERS (FIDA) NIGERIA, RIVERS STATE BRANCH – 2025 ANNUAL LAW WEEK. A NOTE OF FELICITATION BY OKEY LEO OHAGBA I write to extend my sincere felicitations to the Mrs. Tamunoibuemi Life-George led Executive Committee, the Law Week Planning Committee, and all esteemed Rivers State branch FIDAns on this occasion of your...
NBA OKEHI BRANCH (ANCHOR BAR) ANNUAL LAW WEEK 2025: A NOTE OF FELICITATION FROM NBA PAST NATIONAL OFFICER, OKEY LEO OHAGBA I write to heartily felicitate the Okey Nwogu led EXCO, the Promise Nwobiri led Law Week Planning Committee, and the entire esteemed members of NBA Okehi branch (Anchor Bar) on this momentous occasion of...
The Practical Training Academy Ltd/Gte (TPTA) Delivers Comprehensive Public Law Office Training for Cross River State Ministry of Justice Five-day bespoke programme enhances capacity of 143 legal professionals The Practical Training Academy Ltd/Gte (TPTA) and The Law Crest LLP, in collaboration with the Cross River State Ministry of Justice, successfully delivered a specialised five-day training...
BY VICTOR NWAKASI ‘Still On 2025 SPIDEL Leadership Transition – We can Leverage on the Positives’ Based on the election committee report released on this platform, which I am taking the liberty of considering as ‘information’ and the discernment of other information shared, projected, availed and offered so far, it appears there was a genuine...
BY OKEY LEO OHAGBA I write to convey my warmest felicitation to my most amiable Chair, Mrs. Cordelia U. Eke, the branch EXCO, the Law Week Planning Committee, and all esteemed members of NBA PH Branch on this momentous occasion of our 2025 Annual Law Week. Our theme, “Cutting Edge Legal Practice: Catching Up with...
A petition filed by a group calling itself the Concerned Law Students of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti has urged the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Council of Legal Education to probe the professorial title awarded to the Edo State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Roland Otaru (SAN). In the petition dated December 7, 2025,...
Non-litigation lawyers in the country now have an alternative to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) rank, which is conferred on legal practitioners who are judged to have demonstrated exceptional distinction in legal practice, according to the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners (ALDRAP). The SAN rank, conferred on lawyers by the Legal Practitioners’...
BY MONDAY UBANI As Nigeria deepens its digital transformation and expands its reliance on information and communications technologies, the tension between press freedom and cyber-security regulation has become increasingly pronounced. The Constitution clearly guarantees freedom of expression and the press under Section 39, while Section 22 imposes a duty on the media to hold government...