PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT: LPDC Should Recommend Immediate Review of Notable Cases won by Wole Olanipekun SAN and Co

With the laudable decision by the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, to Charge Ms Adekunbi Ogunde, a partner in the law firm of Wole Olanipekun SAN, Chairman of the Body of Benchers, before the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee LPDC, for professional misconduct arising from an email she sent to SAIPEM Contracting Nigeria Ltd on behalf of…

July 26, 20220Comments

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CJN, Falana, Ozekhome, Maikyau, Gadzama, set for NBA SPIDEL Annual Confab

The Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola is set to declare open the eagerly awaited Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL) Annual Conference. The Annual Conference will hold from August 3 to August 5, 2022, at the NBA Headquarters in Abuja. Meanwhile, another Supreme Court jurist, Justice…

July 25, 20220Comments

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Opinion

Does Buhari understand these difficult times?

Inside Stuff With Martins Oloja This is a time to be cynical and censorious about the state of the nation. It is also a defining moment to counsel crisis merchants who live by the temple of sycophancy that they should sheathe their swords at this perilous time. We need to tell them that…

July 25, 20220Comments

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The task before new NBA President: Agbakoba, Adekoya, Ozekhome, Akaraiwe, others speak

Public confidence in the Judiciary is at a very low point. This must therefore receive the highest priority - Agbakoba Ensure the updating of Legal Practitioners Act… Ethical behaviour and integrity of lawyers will restore public confidence - Adekoya I don’t believe that any part of NBA should be higher than the body. It…

July 25, 20220Comments

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Opinion

Five takeaways from #NBADecides2022

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The story is told of a former governor of a state in north-central Nigeria who approached his friend, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), for advice on a very pressing matter. The governor wanted this senior lawyer to advise him on whom among the candidates running to be president of the…

July 24, 20220Comments

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Judiciary

Appeal Court President loses another son!

By Lillian Okenwa The President of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem has lost another son. Sources close to the family told Law & Society Magazine that the young man who was in his thirties died in his sleep yesterday morning (Saturday). According to the source, “he was not sick. He went to…

July 24, 20220Comments

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ECNBA responds to Gadzama’s proxy over alleged irregularities and non-compliance in 2022 NBA Election

Dear Sir, Re: Your Complaints against alleged Fundamental Irregularities and alleged Non-compliance in the NBA Election We write further to our emails of 18 and 20 July 2022 acknowledging receipt of your letters of the 16 and 20 July 2022 in respect of the above. As you are aware, the election of National Officers of…

July 23, 20220Comments

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There is now a tyranny of a provincial, artisanal mindset that treats SAN as a nativity rite – says Odinkalu, as senior lawyers call for sanction against Yomi Alliyu, SAN

By Lillian Okenwa Reactions have continued to trail the letter written by the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA), Mr. Olumide Akpata which requested Chief Wole Olanipekun, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), to recuse himself from office as chairman of the Body of Benchers (BoB). But as the legal community was still digesting…

July 23, 20220Comments

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Opinion

How to end ASUU strikes and fund our varsities -Peter Obi

IKENNA EMEWU The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi has given a hint to what will end the incessant strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and stabilise the nation’s university system. Obi dropped the code when he spoke at the reunion dinner of the products of the Nnamdi…

July 20, 20220Comments

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Law Report

Company law – Part 3: Directors’ removal, Nigerian and UK perspectives

By ‘Femi D. Ojumu This analysis examines the rationale for the removal of directors of public limited companies in two common law jurisdictions; Nigeria and the United Kingdom. It assesses case law and policy considerations in both countries, and further afield. It is pertinent to first establish the preliminary foundations. Section 4 (2) (a) and (b)of…

July 20, 20220Comments

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