•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...
•Police spokeman, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) today insisted that the motor vehicle tinted glass permit policy is lawful and meant to safeguard the public. NPF described moves by the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mazi Afam Osigwe, concerning the Motor Vehicle Tinted Glass Permit Policy as misleading....
The operatives of the Delta State Police Command have impounded 26 vehicles over their non-compliance with the tinted glass directives. The Nigeria Police announced that the enforcement of the Tinted Glass Permit that was issued following directives from the Office of the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, reports Daily Independent...
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has taken the Nigeria Police Force to court over the controversial tinted glass permit policy introduced earlier this year by the Inspector-General of Police. At its pre-conference National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held on August 23 in Enugu, the NBA resolved to challenge the legality of the policy, which ...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has vowed to provide pro bono legal support to the passenger of Ibom Air, Comfort Emmanson, who was remanded for alleged assault on the airline’s crew members. In a statement signed by the NBA President Afam Osigwe and the General Secretary, Mobolaji Ojibara today, the association said it would ensure [&helli...
•Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.) The Nigerian Bar Association has clarified that the N300 million it received from the Rivers State Government was a non-refundable gift, not a payment for hosting rights to its Annual General Conference. The NBA had earlier relocated the forthcoming conference to Enugu State ...
•Rivers Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd) The Rivers State Government has expressed disappointment over the decision of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to relocate its 2025 Annual General Conference from Port Harcourt to Enugu and is demanding ₦300m from the body. The government described the reasons given by the associat...
The eight branches of the Nigerian Bar Association, Rivers State chapter, has called on the state House of Assembly to desist from any attempt to drag the judiciary into the ongoing political crisis in the state. The NBA in a statement it issued in Port Harcourt was reacting to the recent resolution of the House […]
The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) said it has set up an adjudicative review committee to look into conflicting judgments from judges. It said the committee would try to identify where the courts got it wrong and suggested a position that best reflects the position of the law, reports The Nation. National President of NBA, Afam […]
•Yakubu Dogara A group known as the Concerned Lawyers Of Integrity and Justice has petitioned the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to investigate and sanction former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, over an allegation of electoral malpractice in the 2019 gubernatorial election in Bauchi State. This was contained in a lette...

