Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, a body of benchers saddled with the responsibility of checkmating the conducts of legal practitioners in the country has suspended a one-time Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Anaocha branch, one of the eight branches of NBA in Anambra state, Jideofor Okongwu Esq. for alleged infamous conduct. In a
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“I regret studying law as a discipline. In fact, I can’t encourage anyone close to me to consider law as a course in the university…” These were exact words of a young female lawyer less than ten years of graduation. No doubt, her bitter experiences and encounters in course of her practice must have informed
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…says the sanction would curtail excesses of some trigger-happy policemen An Otuocha High Court 2, Anambra State has ordered Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in the area and Oniitsha to sanction a 5-man Police team from ’33’ Police Station, Nkwelle-Ezunaka, Oyi Local Government Area over alleged invasion of his court and disrupting proceedings in a bid
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By: Uche Ndeke The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) in Anambra State has issued a seven day ultimatum to all the governors of the federation, particularly Governor Willie Obiano, to commence the implementation of the financial autonomy of the judiciary or risk mass protest. Speaking under the aegis of Committee of Chairmen of Branches of Nigeria
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The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has filed a lawsuit at the Federal High Court, Lagos, challenging President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to extend the tenure of the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu. President Buhari had earlier this month extended the IGP’s tenure by three months. Adamu, who joined the Nigeria Police Force on February 1, 1986,
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A former Chairperson of Owerri, Imo State branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ndionyenma Nwankwo, has been found dead in his office. The 64-year-old lawyer apparently killed on Saturday was found lying lifeless in a congealed pool of his blood in his office located at 43 School Road Owerri, on Sunday. The secretary of
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A Federal High Court in Lagos Thursday remanded two lawyers, Sarah Ajibola and John Demide, in Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) custody, following their arraignment for allegedly rigging the August 2018 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) national elections. Justice Chuka Obiozor ordered that they remain with the anti-graft agency for seven days in order to
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has raised alarm against the position of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, about the extra- judicial killing in Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state during the EndS SARS. The Governor of Rivers State, challenged the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to file their petition to the panel of inquiry investigating activities
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The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Olumide Akpata, has on Thursday, kicked against the alleged arrest of suspected looters and curfew defaulters by the Nigerian Police without arraignment in courts as required by law. According to him, such act was a clear indication that the police hierarchy has failed to get the message and/or is
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The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Anambra State chapter has chided the military over the proposed Operation Crocodile Smile. The body described the exercise as ill-timed and insensitive in view of the ongoing nationwide #EndSARS and civil protests. In a statement on Tuesday jointly signed by the eight branch Chairmen of the association, the lawyers advised
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The crisis bedeviling the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), may not be over soon. Besides the North forming its own splinter group, the highest number of lawyers in the current NBA are South Westerners, and may likely split from the national body currently running the affairs of lawyers. It could be recalled that South West Lawyers’
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Nigerian lawyers from the North, claiming to be bonded, have pledged to form the ‘New Nigerian Bar Association, targeted at defending their interests. This was contained in a statement on Friday, by Nuhu Ibrahim, Esq, and Abdulbasit Suleiman, Esq, lamenting that recent events had portrayed the NBA as a body that can’t handle the heterogeneous
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Muhammad Sanusi ll, the dethroned Emir of Kano, on Sunday, kicked against the Nigerian Bar Association’s withdrawal of the invitation granted the Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, as a panelist at its forthcoming Annual General Conference (AGC). The former Emir was in Kaduna on an official visit, the first-ever, since he was deposed
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The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has said it has uncovered plans by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), to replace Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State with the Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Umaru Zulum. The DAILY VENDOR recalls that MURIC had earlier condemned NBA’s decision to drop El-Rufai from the list of speakers at its 2020
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Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has urged all public officers to learn from the decision of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), to drop Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, as one of the panel discussants at its forthcoming Annual General Conference (AGC). Speaking at House of Justice Radio/Television network program with the pioneer Director General of the
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