The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Bwari Branch, has expressed its concern over what it termed as conflicting and perverse judgements emanating from superior courts of record in the country. The legal body, in a statement it issued to mark its 2024 Law Week, equally identified poor case management, prolonged pre-trial detention, delayed trials...
For the first time, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) will hold its annual conference in Kano, an ancient northern city. NBA President Yakubu Maikyau (SAN) announced this while addressing reporters during the association’s Kano branch’s 2024 Law Week yesterday in Kano, reports The Nation. Another Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Bola Alabi, ...
In a bold stance against what it terms exploitative and anti-people policies, the Ikeja Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the federal government to reverse the hike of electricity bill or face a lawsuit. The move comes amidst widespread public outcry over the drastic increase in electricity costs,...
The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law has urged the court to sack the Minister of Art, Culture and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa, from office for allegedly violating the National Youth Service Corps Act. The organisation also asked the court to compel the NYSC to nullify the certificates given to Musawa...
A high court in the Federal Capital Territory, today, ruled in favour of the Incorporated Trustees of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and against a former Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Tallen in Suit No: CV/816/2016. Consequently, the court declared that the said statement of Tallen was unconstitutional, careless, reckless, disparaging, a...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has expressed worries over the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to prosecute electoral offenders in the country. Speaking today at the post-election assessment and review forum on human rights in the 2023 general elections, organised by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC...
Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Plateau State chapter, Izang Aware, has said that Nigerians have lost confidence in the legal system in the country. He said that there’s therefore the need for introspection by legal practitioners to make the profession responsive to the yearnings and aspirations of the common man as their last ...