•Nigerian lawyers The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has warned lawyers against instituting court actions aimed at drawing the judiciary into internal disputes within political parties, vowing to impose disciplinary sanctions on erring practitioners. The association, in a statement issued today, expressed concern over what it described as a gr...
•Nigerian lawyers The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has expressed shock at reports about judges bullying lawyers and also unlawfully ordering their detention. The first report of such a thing emanated from the proceedings in Suit No. PHC/301/2016, Mr. Bodiseowei Zidougha v. The Chief of Naval Staff & 2 Ors before the High Court of Rivers ...
The Body of Benchers has sanctioned 17 lawyers over professional misconduct, with penalties ranging from two to five years’ suspension handed to the erring lawyers. The revelation was made at the Body of Benchers’ annual lecture and presentation of the report of the Disciplinary Committee for the year 2025, reports Channels TV. In attendance w...
•Pastor Bakare The Serving Overseer of CitaÂdel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has urged urgent personal and structural reforms within Nigeria’s justice system, warning that entrenched corruption among legal practiÂtioners and judges continues to hold the nation captive. The cleric, who is also a legal practitioner, described th...
•Chimamanda Adichie Solicitors acting for renowned Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie, have written to Euracare Multi-Specialist Hospital, Lagos, over the death of her 21-month-old son, Nkanu Nnamdi. This comes as the Lagos State government confirmed the suspension of the anaesthesiologist at the clinic as probes continue into the circumstanc...
•NBA logo and IGP Egbetokun The Nigeria Police Force’s decision to resume enforcement of the tinted glass permit policy from January 2, 2026, has reopened a legal and institutional dispute with the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), which insists the matter remains before the courts and has warned of possible contempt proceedings. In a statement ...
•Abdullahi Ganduje The National Forum of Kano Indigene Lawyers has raised alarm over the recruitment of a parallel Hisbah police force by the former Kano State governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s foundation, describing it as a deliberate attempt to destabilise the state for political purposes. In a petition signed by the forum’s National Pr...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate yesterday passed a bill to amend the Legal PractiÂtioner Act, 2004 into second readÂing, proposing a two-year mandaÂtory pupillage for all newly called to the Nigerian Bar as part of its reforms to regulate the country’s legal profession in line with modÂern realities. The upper chamber also agreed that the bill [&h...
•Nnamdi Kanu Aloy Ejimakor, Former counsel to the proscribed leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, says no number of lawyers could have altered the court’s decision convicting him of terrorism. Ejimakor spoke on Channels Television today where he dismissed suggestions that stronger legal representation might have changed t...
•The scene of the face-off Lawyers and a Civil Society Group have flayed the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike over his altercation with a military officer over the demolition of a property belonging to an ex-Chief of Naval Staff yesterday. Speaking to our correspondent, the Executive Director of the Civil Society [&h...
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