The Chairman of the Council of Legal Education, Chief Emeka Ngige SAN has harped on the need for a review of the existing law which set up the Council of Legal Education as well as other bodies relevant to legal education in…
An alleged breach of constitutional provisions may force the new National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Abdullahi Adamu and his Deputy, Abubakar Kyari, both serving senators, to resign from the Senate.
Experts say their situations foul constitutional provisions as enunciated in…
Leading Legal Practitioner and respected Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Wole Olanipekun, OFR, SAN, LL.D., D.LITT., FCIArb., FNIALS has emerged as the new Chairman of the Body of Benchers.
Olanipekun who was previously the Vice Chairman of the august body, today, assumed office…
Chairman Nigerian Bar Association Welfare Committee, Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau SAN, said as the full details of the carnage unleashed on Nigerians on Tuesday, 28th March 2022 by unidentified Terrorists continue to trickle in, he’s finally able to put his thoughts together regarding…
The Alliance on Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB) led by a human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Femi Falana, has expressed concern that terrorists are not prosecuted in Nigeria.
The statement was a reaction to the Kaduna train bomblast…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, J. S. Okutepa, has reacted to the security situation of the country that has brought about killings and kidnappings.
Okutepa, in a statement made available to The Lawyer, questioned how Nigeria got to this stage where terrorists are…
The former Deputy Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, Enugu Campus, Professor Ernest Ojukwu, SAN has commended the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olumide Akpata, for dragging a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and six other lawyers to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary…
Frontline energy law expert and the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academic, Research, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships (ARISP) of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Professor Damilola S. Olawuyi, SAN has called on stakeholders in public and private sectors to urgently address barriers that hinder…
Oba Nsugbe QC, SAN was called to the bar in 1985 (Gray’s Inn) and was appointed a Crown Court Reader in 1999 – the youngest practitioner ever appointed to the part-time judiciary. He became a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in…
RIGHTS activist Femi Falana, SAN has accused the African Union (AU) leaders of failing to genuinely and effectively implement human rights obligations and commitments in their countries.
Falana stated this yesterday in a paper titled, “The Unconstitutional Change of Government in Africa” delivered…
