Nigerian Bar Association

The Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA) may have split into two, as a new faction with the name, New Nigerian Bar Association, (NNBA) emerged on Thursday. The new group of lawyers is led by lawyers from the core North. A press…

By SAM OMATSEYE.  THIS is not the time to hold grudges against Malam Nasir El-Rufai. It is not the time to say he, like Napoleon, suffers a small man’s syndrome, or that he pulled down the homes of rivals. It is not the time to say his…

The Board of Trustees of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has stated that the elections that produced Olumide Akpata as President cannot be cancelled “in the overall interest of the Bar”. A presidential candidate Dele Adesina…

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has congratulated the newly elected President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata on his election. Lawan also congratulated the newly elected members of the…

AMINA HUSSAINI Barrister Olumide Akpata has won the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) presidential election held Thursday morning. It is the first time in over three decades that the president of the NBA will be emerging from the…

A former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki (rtd), on Thursday, appeared in a Federal High Court, Abuja, for his trial on charges of money laundering and illegal possession of firearms instituted against him by the Office of the…

CONSTANCE JOHNSON. The Lagos high court has granted the immediate past chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Ikeja branch, Adesina Ogunlana, alongside his predecessor,  Yinka Farounbi, and immediate past treasurer of the…

A former Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Monday Ubani, has regained his freedom after being detained for 24 days by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The EFCC detained Ubani along with Senator Christopher…

Former Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Monday Ubani has slumped in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Ubani was reported to have slumped and rushed to an undisclosed hospital in Abuja…

The FCT High Court, Apo, on Tuesday ordered the EFCC to charge two persons standing as sureties for Ms. Ngozi Olejeme, who was the chairman of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund from 2009 to 2015 The court asked the Economic and…