Lawyer’s Right Of Audience And Punitive Costs
My view on the Supreme Court ruling in the Gwandu emirate matter having read the Decision of the Supreme Court. On 15 May 2026 the Supreme Court, sitting as a…
PDP Urges NBA, LPDC to Sanction Lawyers for allegedly Twisting Court Verdict
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) to investigate and sanction lawyers accused of deliberately misrepresenting a…
LPDC disclosed 70 names disciplinary directions
Issues Caveat that Appeals operate as Stay of Execution pending Supreme Court decision The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has published the Directions of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) on…
Only LPPC backed by rules to confer SAN rank, Blue Silk rank illegal — Abuja Court
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed a suit seeking judicial backing for the conferment of a “Blue Silk” rank on Nigerian legal practitioners as an alternative to…
Blue Silks: ‘How CJN, NBA, LPPC silence conferred tacit approval’
Amid ongoing legal battle and controversy over the introduction of the Blue Silks rank of Senior Counsel of Nigeria, SCN, as an alternative to the title of Senior Advocate of…
Kalu’s lawyers charges CLE to dismiss petition seeking withdrawal of legal qualification
Solicitors to the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, have urged the Council of Legal Education to dismiss a petition seeking the withdrawal of…
Don’t wear Robes at Court-Martial proceedings or risk LPDC sanctions — Falana tells lawyers
*Says directive breaches professional rules Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, has warned that lawyers appearing before the General Court-Martial set up to try 36 military officers over an…
In defence of due process: Why the current NBA boss petition against counsel is a dangerous precedent
By Ibrahim Lawal, Esq, MCIArb UK I am Ibrahim Lawal, the First Claimant in the case in which an ex parte order was obtained restraining the Electoral Committee of the…
2027: NBA caution lawyers against frivolous political party affairs cases
Raises alarm over ‘judicial interference’ in party affairs. The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has raised concerns over what it described as growing judicial interference in the internal affairs of political…
It is an issue of accountability, not witch-hunt – Afam Osigwe
Dear Chief Jibrin Samuel Okutepa, SAN, I read your write up with more amusement than anger. In other to portray yourself as a victim of political oppression and witch-hunt, you…