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We live in a country where there’s systemic failure The day that we see CAC cross the line, we'll sue, but right now they haven’t crossed any legal line The way things are going we’re probably going to have splinter groups at the Bar…A house divided against itself, can’t stand…. We can’t have…
A Comment by Sylvester Udemezue
Gentlemen, I have got a copy of the originating processes from TheNigeriaLawyer. I can confirm that the Registered Trustee of the NBA is sued as the first Defendant in suit number:
FHC/ABJ/CS/1426/2022, challenging the 15 August 2022 suspension of Joyce Oduah as the NBA General Secretary (NBA GS). Temitope Onabanjo…
By Lillian Okenwa
Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Jibrin S. Okutepa has described the ratification of Mrs. Joyce Oduah’s suspension as General Secretary at the weekend by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) as “the worst example of disrespect for the rule of law.”
The ratification came even as a…
By Sonnie Ekwowusi
To affirm that the judiciary is corrupt is an understatement. The judiciary is not just corrupt; the men and women entrusted with the affairs of the judiciary are suffering from a huge character-deficit. It is painful that our judiciary has been constituted into an object of derision by the very people who…
Memory Verse: “… hitting the ground running immediately will not be enough, we also need to hit it flying. Nothing short of that would match the expectations of our members and Nigerians". (Per Olumide Akpata, in his Inaugural Speech on 28 August 2020)
Below are seventeen (17) major promises and covenants Mr. Olumide Akpata, while…
On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, Dr Olu Agunloye, then minister of power and steel, presented a memo to the federal executive council (FEC). He sought its approval to award a build, operate and transfer (BOT) contract for the Mambilla Hydropower Project to Sunrise Power and Transmission Ltd, a company promoted by Chief Leno Adesanya. The…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Nearly 10 years ago, in September 2012, the then president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Okey Wali, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), was at the beginning of his tenure. With the energy of a fresh presidency, he desired to make a mission of changing the way the association did…
By Oyetola Muyiwa Atoyebi, SAN, FCIArb. (UK).
INTRODUCTION
Set to take effect from January 1, 2023, this regulatory guideline is aimed at the Other Financial Institutions (OFIs) (such as microfinance, development banks, etc.), to enhance cybersecurity and strengthen the defense against cyberattacks, targeted at the information and communications system of the financial industry, which is…
I woke up a little after 3am thinking about Nigeria and its future.
Sliced bread is metaphoric for a near perfect and elitist state of existence. It represents ready made situations, it represents an organised state of things, in fact it simply represents the best among the rest.
Nigerians would love their standard of living…
By Lillian Okenwa
It was the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who first began to call Nigeria a zoo. Kanu holds that nothing ever works in the ‘zoo’ and that nothing will ever function properly!
The Zoo Story we must recall is a 1958 one-act play written by an…