The governor of Rivers State, Nyesome Wike has slammed the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) for failing to condemn in strong terms the invasion of the Rivers...
Following their inauguration into elected offices, President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors have been warned against undue interference in the activities of judges engaged in the...
Nigerian Bar Association, Benin Branch, has barred its members from handling cases relating to kidnapping and armed robbery. The NBA made its stand known in a...
A former president of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Olisa Agbakoba has called on presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar not to...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has urged the federal government to suspend the charges against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, before...
Prof Chuka Obiozor is now the new judge to take over from Justice Muslim Hassan of a Federal High Court in Lagos in the N1.4billion alleged...
More than one week after suspending the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Nkanu Onnoghen, and replacing him with his immediate junior, the Presidency seems to...
A Political solution to the Chief Justice of Nigeria Walter Onnoghen crisis of integrity rocking the Judiciary is in the works, The Nation has learnt. A...
An Attempt by the Port Harcourt branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to enforce the decision of the national executive council of the association to...
Popular legal practitioner, Olisa Agbakoba has requested the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to strike out the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Justice Danladi...
In defiance to the boycott order by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Monday, Judges and lawyers on Tuesday reportedly hold proceedings at various courtrooms in...
Nigerian lawyers across the country have been asked to boycott courts from Tuesday over the suspension of the Chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen. The...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has described as an absolute breach of the constitution Friday’s suspension of Walter Onnoghen as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). In...
The umbrella body of lawyers in the country, Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) has advised the federal government to soft pedal in its plan to remove the...
The Federal Government has ordered that restrictions be placed on five bank accounts belonging to the embattled Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. ….But the...
The umbrella body of legal practitioners in the country, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has lamented the disrespect for the rule of law under the present...
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has decried President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent statement that rule of law is secondary when national interest or security is at stake....
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday provided the basis for which individual rights can be suspended by his government. Buhari said the “Rule of Law must be...
THE Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has called on the Federal Government to protect Nigerians in the face of constant and unabated bloodletting going on in parts...
Jordan Nwora says it was due to his love for Nigeria that he opted to represent Nigeria’s national basketball team, D’Tigers, over their USA counterparts. The...
Indiana Pacers Nigerian-born basketball star Victor Oladipo has been named the most improved player at the 2018 NBA Awards staged at the Barker Hangar in Santa...
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, has threatened to arrest and prosecute members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) over their plan to protest the...
There were indications over the weekend that one of the Third Forces, The Nigerian Intervention Movement, (NIM) under the leadership of former president of the Nigeria...
Former governor of Imo State, Dr Ikedi Ohakim has again attacked the incumbent governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha over salaries owed judges in the state....
By Pius Adesanmi…. It appears I am the only one who missed Hijab-gate! I am coming to it late but I have a few random observations....
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer has stated that the National Judicial Council (NJC) and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) could check the scourge of corruption within...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) on Wednesday appointed a former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami (retd), who was controversially suspended from office...
The Constitution and Electoral Reform Committee (CERC) has proposed a massive restructuring of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Ken Nnamani-led committee, set up by...
The common usage of ‘corrupt’ to describe the judicial arm of government by the Presidency has been strongly frowned at by the Nigerian Bar Association, who...
By Azu Ishiekwene… The government of President Muhammadu Buhari just boxed itself into a corner and the National Judicial Council (NJC) is very pleased to beat...
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has finally owned up and accepted that corruption is ravaging the Nigerian judicial system. The body of lawyers in the country...
By Joseph Edgar… This is like a bad movie. The judiciary is crumbling. What has this generation of players done to the judiciary? They have brought...
Lagos lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, has insisted that judges arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS, should be suspended. Falana, in a statement on...
Femi Falana… Two weeks ago, the Nigerian Bar Association had cause to condemn the nocturnal raid on the official quarters of seven judges including two members...
The dust raised by the arrest of some judges by the Department of State Security Services [DSS] is yet to settle as the National Judicial Council...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) on Friday said asking the judges accused of corruption to recuse or proceed on compulsory leave without probe would mean violation...
President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Abubakar Mahmoud, has recommended that the judges accused of corruption should either recuse themselves or embark on compulsory leave...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Barring justice in heaven, judiciary use to be one place in Nigeria where people get relative reprieve. Our lawyers and judges were...
By Sonala Olumhense… Finally, Nigeria last week got around to the touchy subject of taking the filthy wigs off corrupt members of the judiciary and calling...
By Okey Ndibe… Last week, agents of the Department of State Security (DSS) carried out a series of commando-style raids at the residences of numerous justices,...
By Taju Tijani… Talking heads, chattering lawyers and social media highways were set ablaze when it was revealed that judges were ambushed, shocked and awed by...
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Thursday, faulted claims by the Department of State Services that there were complaints or petitions against the judges arrested in a...
Cafter meeting for two days in Abuja. They extended the meeting to a third day — today. The council is one of the federal executive bodies...
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has disagreed with the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, over its call for the unconditional release of the seven judges...
The stage is obviously set for a showdown between the Presidency and the body of lawyers in the country represented by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)....
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has threatened that there will be consequences if the judges arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS, on Friday night...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu has emerged the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the November governorship election in Ondo...
The EFCC is not finding a call by the new president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Abubakar Mahmoud, for reforms in the agency funny. The...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, has declared that policemen have been barred by the Administration of Criminal...
The embattled factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has accused the government of Governor Kashim Shettima of creating and funding Boko...
