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NBA Identifies 12 Ring Leaders Over Vandalisation Of Conference Materials

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Conference Incident Investigation Committee set up to investigate the vandalisation and looting of the accreditation centre and conference materials during the 62nd Annual General Conference in Lagos, has identified 12 persons who were shown to have actively…

28/03/2023

BOSAN Slams NBA President Maikyau Over Comments on Recognition For AGF Malami

The Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, BOSAN, has called on the President of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr Yakubu Maikyau, SAN, to retract a statement he made accusing it of breaching its own rules by failing to accord the Attorney General…

27/03/2023

Army Chief Dismisses Report Of Alleged Massacre Of Children By Soldiers

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, has dismissed a report indicting soldiers of allegedly killing children in the fight against terrorism in the North-East. Last December, Reuters in an investigative report alleged that the Nigerian military operated a secret programme,…

26/03/2023

Bus-Train Collision: Lagos Govt To File Charge Against Staff Bus Driver

The Lagos State Government is to file a six-count charge of manslaughter and 10 counts of grievous body harm against the driver of the staff bus which collided with a train at the PWD railway crossing on March 9. Both offences are contrary…

25/03/2023

BREAKING: Appeal Court Upholds Governorship Of Senator Adeleke

The Court of Appeal Abuja has set aside the decision of the Osun State Governorship tribunal, and has upheld the Governorship of senator Ademola Adeleke. The tribunal had annulled Adeleke’s victory and affirmed Gboyega Oyetola of All Progressives Congress as the authentic winner…

24/03/2023

NBA-NEC Meeting Holds in Kebbi

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Yakubu Maikyau, OON, SAN, has asked that the NBA Employment Bureau be notified by members of the Bar who have successfully submitted applications for employment to various Law Enforcement Agencies Maikyau who made this…

24/03/2023

Ekweremadu, Wife, Doctor Found Guilty Of Organ Trafficking

A former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; his wife Beatrice and their doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act. Ekweremadu, 60; his wife, Beatrice, 56; and Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, were…

23/03/2023

Tunde Ayeni Speaks On Paternity Tussle With Female Lawyer

Nigerian businessman and former chairman of defunct Skye Bank, Tunde Ayeni has reacted to the paternity tussle involving him and a female lawyer in Abuja identified as Adaobi Alagwu. Ayeni is alleged to have fathered a child, a baby girl, with Adaobi, a…

23/03/2023

APC Suspends SGF Boss Mustapha Indefinitely, SWC Kicks

The All Progressives Congress in Adamawa State has suspended the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, for losing his polling unit to the Peoples Democratic Party at the presidential and governorship polls. The party disclosed that the SGF did not…

23/03/2023

Naira Crunch: NLC Directs Workers To Protest At CBN Offices Nationwide

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has directed all workers to protest at all the offices of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) nationwide starting next week over the current cash crunch in the country. NLC President, Joe Ajaero, who briefed journalists in Abuja,…

22/03/2023

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