A statement signed by the Assistant Secretary of the Association, Yahaya Alajo, after the meeting, said the removal of the chairman was approved at a general meeting attended by over 50 members
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But the group urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to “move towards the use of Electronic Voting Machines, EVM, for future elections, in order to ensure more credibility as it has indicated that it has the capacity to use such process, which it used to collate results in the collating centers”
Ahmed said such programmes would complement the efforts of the Legal Aid Council in providing free legal services to indigent Nigerians
He urged the offices of Attorneys-General and Commissioners for Justice to appropriately advice their respective governments
The planned boycott is contained in a statement issued by the Benin NBA Chairman, Oriane Akere, on Friday in Benin
The plaintiffs said prior to the review, lawyers with less than five years standing at the bar paid a practising fee of N2,000 while those above five years, but less than 10 years, paid N4,000
The NGF broke up into two factions on Friday after the forum’s secretariat declared Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State reelected as chairman of the group by 19 votes to Plateau State’s Governor Jonah Jang’s 16
Okey Wali, the President of the association, told the News Agency of Nigeria in a telephone interview that the decision was a further resolve by the Federal Government to protect the country and its people from further aggression by undesirable elements