The National Industrial Court in Lagos has ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and NNPC Pension Fund Limited to pay harmonised pensions to NNPC retirees. Justice Elizabeth Oji gave the two defendants 90 days within which to comply with the order, while also awarding N20,000 costs against them. The judge made the order in...
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE • FATE OF ELECTION HANGS IN BALANCE • COURT SET TO HEAR SUIT FRIDAY The fate of the forthcoming Nigerian Bar Association National Officers Elections is now hanging in the balance as a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja will on Friday hear a lawsuit brought by controversial former Chairman of the...
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE CONFIRMS CITY LAWYER REPORT Echoes of the election that brought outgoing Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Mr. Paul Usoro SAN has reverberated as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may soon arraign suspects in the controversial election. Filed as Suit no FHC/L/118c/2020, the EFCC is, according to GAVEL INTERNATIONAL accusing the...
The Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA) has extended the deadline for lawyers verify their profiles for the forthcoming NBA Elections. In an ECNBA Statement No. 015 titled “Extension of verification exercise” and signed by the committee Secretary, Mrs. Cordelia Eke, the electoral body stated that the verification exercise will now end barely...
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE * SAYS NBA PORTAL IS ‘EXTREMELY POROUS,’ BEING MANIPULATED * ‘YOUR OPACITY IS A SOURCE OF CONCERN’ * WARNS THAT MANY ELIGIBLE VOTERS MAY BE SHUT OUT A leading presidential candidate in the forthcoming Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Elections, Mr. Olumide Akpata has raised alarm over what he called “looming disenfranchisement of...
Bar leaders and academics at the weekend stressed the need to leverage alumni networks for the development of legal education and law practice. Speaking on the theme, “Alumni Networks and the Development of the Legal Profession in Nigeria” at a virtual conference hosted by the Nigeria Law School Class of 1989, a leading presidential candidate...
Leading human rights activist, EBUN-OLU ADEGBORUWA, SAN pens a moving tribute to promising flying officer Tolulope Arotile who was cut down in her prime by alleged motor accident, saying that only a full-scale judicial enquiry will assuage the suspicion of a ‘hatchet job’ TOLULOPE AROTILE: SUNSET AT DAWN “Every person has a right to life,...
BY EMEKA NWADIOKE SAYS ‘WE WILL KEEP YOU INFORMED ON ANY NEW DEVELOPMENTS’ The Platform Nigeria has formally canceled its planned “interactive session” with Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) presidential candidates in line with the disapproval of the programme by the Electoral Committee of the NBA (ECNBA). However, the promotional website for the aborted programme had...
The 14th Annual Business Law Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) has come and gone but its memories will linger for a long time. Held on July 16 and 17, 2020 the e-conference had as its theme, “Business unusual: Digital acceleration for growth in a new world.” In this piece,...
The 14th Annual Business Law Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) has come and gone but its memories will linger for a long time. Held on July 16 and 17, 2020 the e-conference had as its theme, “Business unusual: Digital acceleration for growth in a new world.” Below are some of the images at...