The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, on March 5, 2025, received a delegation from the United States Embassy, led by Mr. Timothy Smith, at the NBA Secretariat in Abuja. The meeting focused on strengthening legal and security collaborations between the two entities, with an emphasis on transparency, accountability, and ...

    The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Afam Osigwe, has advocated for sweeping judicial reforms to address the increasing backlog of cases in Nigerian courts. He emphasized the need to review the role of the judiciary in pre-election disputes and limit the types of cases that reach the Supreme Court. Speaking in ...

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), under the leadership of Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, has launched the issuance of digital Annual Practice Licenses for all legal practitioners who have duly paid their Annual Bar Practicing Fees for the year 2025. This has been stated in an issue signed by Dr. Mobolaji Ojibara, General Secretary, of the ...

  The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abuja Branch (Unity Bar), has announced that its March 2025 General Meeting will take place on Friday, March 7, 2025, at 4:00 PM (West Central African Time). The meeting will be held at the Auditorium, NBA House, Muhammadu Buhari Way, CBD, Abuja, with a virtual participation option via Zoom. ...

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Remuneration Committee has reiterated its commitment to ensuring that legal practitioners receive fair compensation in line with the Legal Practitioners’ Remuneration Order (LPRO) 2023. The LPRO 2023 establishes minimum fees for legal services, safeguarding lawyers from underpricing while promoting professionalism and financial sustainability within the legal profession. Why This Matters: ...

  In a demonstration of its commitment to upholding the rule of law and protecting human rights, the Human Rights Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abuja Branch (Unity Bar) has successfully secured the release of a senior legal practitioner, Mr. Pius Sunday Okeoma, who was detained by the Force Investigation Department (FID) of ...

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The social media has been awash with stories about the Wigwe family and the ruling by Hon. Adeyemi J. of the Ikeja High Court (Family & Probate), which arose from a motion for interlocutory injunction brought by the claimant/applicants in Suit No. ID/7735FPM/2024. The matter is about the Administration of the Estate of the late ...

A bill aimed at regulating fees payable to rent agents and lawyers in Enugu State has passed its first reading at the State House Assembly. Sponsored by Okey Mbah, representing Nkanu East State Constituency, the proposed legislation seeks to amend the existing “Landlord and Tenant Law, CAP. 101, Laws of Enugu State, 2024.” Key provisions ...

  The African Centre for Good Governance and Human Development has recognized Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, a distinguished human rights lawyer and Principal Partner at I.C. Ejiofor & Co. (UgoChinyere Chambers), with the Outstanding Performance Award for his contributions to good governance and humanitarian development. At an award ceremony held at UgoChinyere Chambers in Lagos, Mujaheed ...

The release of former military ruler General Ibrahim Babangida’s autobiography, A Journey in Service, has reignited controversy, with human rights activists and legal professionals demanding his prosecution for annulling the June 12, 1993, presidential election. Three decades after the historic election—widely considered Nigeria’s freest and fairest—the pain of its annulment remains. Babangida’s public admission of ...

A former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Idemili Branch, Barr. Chike Nonyelum, has raised concerns over alleged extortion by the Anambra State Homeland Security outfit, Agunechemba. Speaking at the first 2025 Bar meeting of the NBA Idemili Branch at Fountain Bar Center, Ogidi High Court, Nonyelum claimed to have personally witnessed Agunechemba operatives ...

  Legal experts in Lagos have attributed the growing involvement of foreigners in criminal activities to weak laws, poor investigations, corruption, and inadequate immigration controls. Their concerns follow a sting operation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in December 2024, which led to the arrest of 792 suspects, including 197 foreigners, for alleged ...

  A legal practitioner, Oladimeji Ekengba, has called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to intervene and stop what he describes as unlawful interference in a fraud case before the Federal High Court, Lagos by a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) attached to the IGP Monitoring Unit. In an open letter to the IGP, ...

  The legal team representing former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, has accused Justice Abdulrahman Oshodi of bias and demanded that he recuse himself from the case. At the resumed trial on Monday, Emefiele’s lead counsel, Olalekan Ojo (SAN), filed an application urging Justice Oshodi to step down from further proceedings, citing ...