BY EMEKA NWADIOKE • ‘NBA LEADERSHIP TOOK LAWYERS TO SLAUGHTER SLAB’ Longstanding Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Chief Prosecutor at the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC), Mr. Jibrin Okutepa SAN at the weekend took a hard look at the just concluded NBA Elections and declared that it was rigged. In a reaction made available exclusively to...
FEATURED Virtual LegalTech Conference unveils New Ecosystem for Client/Lawyer Engagement and Administration of Justice in Nigeria Post COVID-19 As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage economies all around the world, there has been an increased pivot in the use and adoption of technology across several industries, where hitherto technology was a mere tool and not...
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE • EGBE BLOC CONGRATULATES AKPATA, ASSURES SUPPORT • ADESINA PETITIONS NBA TRUSTEES Cracks have emerged within Egbe Amofin O’odua ranks as a major bloc in the influential regional group has congratulated Nigerian Bar Association President-elect, Mr. Olumide Akpata on his victory at the poll. Meanwhile, there are strong indications that Egbe Amofin...
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE Encomiums have continued to pour in for Nigerian Bar Association President-elect, Mr. Olumide Akpata over his victory at the just concluded NBA National Officers Elections. In his congratulatory message, President Muhammadu Buhari said: “I congratulate Olumide Akpata on his election as the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), a crucial stakeholder...
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Mr. Paul Usoro SAN has committed to bridge the schism that has attended the just concluded NBA National Officers Elections. CITY LAWYER recalls that one of the presidential candidates in the race, Mr. Dele Adesina SAN had in a searing petition to the Electoral Committee (ECNBA) carpeted...
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE Erstwhile Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) presidential candidate, Mr. Dele Adesina has said that it was the association and not him or his supporters that lost the recently concluded election. In a statement dripping with passion, Adesina also warned that NBA may have “lost the last opportunity to re-invent itself,” adding that “time...
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE Nigerian Bar Association President-elect, Mr. Olumide Akpata has promised to embark on electoral reforms to smoothen the lapses in the association’s electoral system. In a letter to lawyers titled “Let us secure the future through a united bar that works for all,” the incoming NBA President traced his entry into the presidential...
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE A major split may have occurred in the camp of erstwhile Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) presidential candidate, Mr. Dele Adesina SAN as one of his staunchest backers has urged stakeholders to support NBA President-elect, Mr. Olumide Akpata. Though former NBA presidential candidate, Prof. Ernest Ojukwu SAN had profusely endorsed Adesina in the...
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE At exactly 12:53 am early today, the Chairman of the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA), Mr. Tawo Eja Tawo SAN declared Tier-One solicitor, Mr. Olumide Akpata as winner of the NBA presidential election held last Wednesday and Thursday. Akpata is billed to be sworn in late August as the...
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE As the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) 2020 Election inches to a close, the much anticipated inaugural audit of the election may be the elixir needed to calm frayed nerves and pull the poll away from the usual rancour that has bedeviled previous exercises. Signs that the election may walk the troubled part...