The Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Security Agencies Relations Committee, Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama SAN has felicitated with the NBA Women Forum on its 2nd Annual Conference. Similar felicitations were delivered to the forum by the J-K Gadzama LLP Women’s Group and Young Lawyers Group of J-K Gadzama LLP. The leading arbitrator has also...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) recently organised a “Legal Education Summit” in collaboration with the Afe Babalola University. In a Goodwill Message to the Summit, Chairman of Council of Legal Education (CLE), CHIEF EMEKA NGIGE SAN embarks on a tour de force on efforts to rejig legal education in Nigeria and warns that scrapping the...
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo; Nigerian Bar Association President, Mr. Olumide Akpata and founder of Afe Babalola University, Aare Afe Babalola, have canvassed an overhaul of the curriculum for legal education to reflect contemporary reality. The legal giants and senior advocates identified an obsolete curriculum as one of the biggest challenges confronting the development of...
Leading litigator and senior lawyer, Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN has emerged the new Chairman of the embattled Body of Benchers, CITY LAWYER can authoritatively report. Olanipekun assumed leadership of the august body following the completion of tour of duty by the immediate past chairman, retired Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour. In an acceptance speech obtained by CITY...
Another member of the troubled Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) has resigned, CITY LAWYER can authoritatively report. In a resignation letter obtained by CITY LAWYER and dated March 29, 2022, Boma Ayomide Alabi SAN stated that she has resigned from the LPDC “effective immediately.” Alabi said that she was “utterly dismayed” by the outcome of...
Former Eastern Bar Forum (EBF) Governor, Mr. Soseipriye Long Williams has commended the Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association Security Agencies Relations Committee (NBA-SARC), Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama SAN on his role as Keynote Speaker at the just concluded Annual Summit of NBA Port Harcourt Branch Young Lawyers Forum (YLF). Reviewing Gadzama’s speech at the summit, Williams...
The Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA) has issued guidelines for conduct of the 2022 NBA National Election as well as election into the General Council of the Bar. According to the Guidelines obtained by CITY LAWYER and dated March 24, 2022 there are strong indications that the committee may have foreclosed the...
WE WILL RESPOND SOONEST – ECNBA CHAIR Fiery Bar Leader and former Secretary of the NBA Constitution Review Committee, Mr. Olasupo Ojo has faulted the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA) over its recently released Preliminary Notice of Election. The activist also demanded an amendment of the notice to reflect “micro zoning” of...
Fiery lawyer and human rights activist, Mr. Maxwell Opara has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to issue new practice directions directing former public office holders to obtain clearance before travelling overseas. In a letter to EFCC Chairman dated March 22, 2022 and made available to CITY LAWYER, Opara stated that “a more...
World acclaimed quondam Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law at the University of Lagos, PROFESSOR AKIN OYEBODE warns that Nigeria’s legal profession is at the cross-roads. In this Keynote Address presented at the just concluded Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Lagos Branch Law Week, the pre-eminent jurist says lawyers must be ready, willing and able to...