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...
Why Nigeria Should Embrace Multiple Bar Associations: A Perspective Inspired by Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, Chairman Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Recall that in the wake of the Judgment of Justice Glays Olotu of the Federal High Court ordering the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) to register the Nigerian Law Society...
The Otu Oka Iwu Association, renowned as the foremost Igbo Lawyers’ Association, is set to host its highly anticipated Annual Dinner and Award Night today, Sunday, 7th December, 2025. The prestigious gathering promises to bring together legal professionals, distinguished guests, and cultural enthusiasts in an evening dedicated to celebration, recognition, and the rich heritage of...
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, has arrived Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, for the eagerly anticipated parley on corruption in the justice sector. The session is one of the highpoints of the ongoing and highly successful Nigerian Bar Association Section on...
A newly called Lawyer, Dare Isaac, has been kidnapped while on his way to his home town in Ekiti State.Hé was returning home from his Call to Bar ceremony. The abduction took place around Lokoja, Kogi State, on Friday, November 28, 2025, just three days after Dare Isaac was called to the bar in Abuja...
The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Afam Osigwe, SAN, has called on legal practitioners across the country to recommit themselves to the ideals of justice, accountability, and national development, stressing that the legal profession must serve as the nation’s moral and ethical compass. He made this charge yesterday, December 2, 2026 in...