The Nigerian Bar Association has condemned the recent agreement to allow United Kingdom Attorneys to practice in Nigeria. The NBA President, Yakubu Maikyau (SAN), in an email to lawyers of the Nigerian Bar ...

NBA-SBL urges legal community’s participation at yearly conference

The Nigerian Bar Association, Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) has called on the legal community and others to register to participate in its 18th yearly law conference. According to the group, legal professionals ...

Ojukwu’s sons apply to join suit against OTL

The late Biafra leader, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu sons, Afamefuna and Nwachukwu have applied to be joined as “interested parties” in a 2011 suit filed by Ogbonna Ojukwu and others against the Ojukwu ...

A consortium of lawyers under the aegis of Guardians of Democracy and Rule of Law, on Friday, urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to follow due process in its bid to prosecute the immediate ...

Experts task FG on tech policies, legislations

Participants at the Duale Ovia & Alex-Adedipe TMT Business Law Breakfast Series 2024, Adeniyi Duale (left); Kola Aina; Adesuwa Okunbo-Rhodes; Kyari Abba Bukar; Tosin Eniolorunda; Femi Ogunjimi and Olatubosun ...

As the Nigerian Bar Association prepares for its forthcoming 64th Annual General Conference, lawyers are calling for a reduction in the conference’s registration fees, while some have planned to boycott the ...

Lawyers urged to embrace AI, innovation

Legal practitioners have been urged to embrace the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their practices to meet up with current realities and to avoid being obsolete. This was said at the fifth edition of the ...

The lawyer accused Richards of sundry acts of cyberbullying and libelling Olukoya. Ayotunde Richards, a gospel singer and former member of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) and a 23-year-old blogger ...

The Supreme Court has dismissed the two appeals filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last governorship election in Benue State, Uba Titus, seeking to void the victory of Governor ...

A Magistrate’s Court sitting in the Yaba area of Lagos State has remanded two friends, Noah Tovohome and Rajay Zannu, to a correctional centre for allegedly plotting and killing their friend, Segun Zusu, over 36 ...

The family of a seven-year-old girl (name withheld) has demanded justice over the alleged sexual abuse of the girl by one of their neighbours in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.  The aunt of the victim, Adeola ...

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria, sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, has restrained the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, from removing the State Chief Judge, Adepele Ojo and Michael Obidiya, as the secretary ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission to transmit the election results on the INEC Result Viewing Portal did not affect the outcome of the presidential ...

An Enugu State High Court sitting in Enugu has ordered the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to replace Senator Samuel Anyanwu as the party’s National Secretary. Anyanwu is also the PDP governorship ...

The United States District Court of the District of Columbia has refused a request by one Aaron Greenspan seeking to compel US security agencies  to promptly release information, including documents to him ...

A section of the Supreme Court Premises in Abuja is on fire.   The cause of the fire incident which started this morning is yet to be ascertained as of press time. THE NATION

The Kano Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has sacked Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf as the governor of Kano state, declaring the All Progressives Congress winner of the March 18 election. Yusuf, who ...

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA on Sunday released a special notice to guide lawyers in updating their information on the NBA new portal. Below is the Notice by the Association’s general Secretary Distinguished ...

In this interview with FRIDAY OLOKOR, a former Commissioner for Education in Ondo State, Dr. Remi Olatubora(SAN), analyses the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal and how it will enrich the ...

The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja on Monday sentenced a 59-year-old artisan, Eze Chukwuma, who defiled his two daughters for nine years to double life imprisonment. Justice ...