NBA commissioner Adam Silver informed the Board of Governors the league is looking at a July 31 start date, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic.
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The Jigawa State branch of the Nigerian Bar Association on Thursday said the body has expended N300,000 to provide palliative measures for some of its members and members of the National Youth Service Corps serving with them.
Kobe Bryant has been remembered as an amazing husband and a passionate advocate for women’s basketball at a memorial service for the NBA star and his daughter Gianna.
The towel that Kobe Bryant wore over his shoulders during his farewell speech after his final National Basketball League game has fetched over $33,000 at auction, the US media said on Sunday.
Four members of the Brooklyn Nets basketball team, including superstar Kevin Durant, have tested positive for the coronavirus, just days after the NBA halted play to help contain the outbreak.
The NBA has put its season on hold after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for COVID-19.
Utah’s game against the Thunder in Oklahoma City was called off moments before tip-off due to the confirmation of the positive test.
Djokovic had spoken fondly of his relationship with the former Los Angeles Laker in an interview at the weekend and the 16-time Grand Slam champion signed off his Tweet of condolence with the words: “RIP my friend.”
Usoros is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission before Justice Rilwan Aikawa on 10 counts bordering on the offence.
The NBBF described the death of the 77-year-old who revolutionised the NBA as a sad event, which was not the perfect way to usher in the new decade.
Bayo Akinlade, the Chairman of the Ikorodu Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association on Monday frowned at the continued prosecution of cases in the magistrates courts by the police.
The Nigerian Bar Association in Edo has stressed the need for security agencies to provide adequate protection of lives and property of residents of the state.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission charged Usoro before Justice Rilwan Aikawa on a 10 counts charge bordering on fraud.
The Chairman of the association, Muhammad Maigana, described the detention of one of its members as “unconstitutional, unlawful and illegal”.
Following the outburst, even the Nigerian Bar Association, through its National Publicity Secretary, Kunle Edun, issued a statement commending the conduct of Justice AbdulMalik while upbraiding the EFCC as one of the agents of state trying to destroy the judiciary.
The Nigerian Bar Association has risen from its 59th Annual General Conference with a call on the Supreme Court to clarify whether the Code of Conduct Tribunal is an organ of the executive arm or a quasi-judicial tribunal capable of being vested with criminal jurisdiction.
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mia Essien, on Tuesday decried sexual harassment of female lawyers by their senior colleagues, urging that lawyers’ Rules of Professional Conduct should condemn sexual assault and bullying.
Speaking at the ground breaking ceremony for the Lagos Bar Center in Lekki Phase 1 on Monday, Babalakin, who is the Chairman of the Project Committee, said: “Everybody in Nigeria needs to be more equipped and more educated.
The lecture, according to a statement signed by the Publicity Secretary of the branch, Taofik Lawal, will hold at the Chris Ogunbanjo Centre, Eruwon-Ijebu, with the theme” “Towards a better Administration of Justice in Nigeria, Case for Systemic, Structural and Attitudinal Transformation.”
In a statement jointly signed by the convener and Secretary of OSAF, Prince Hameed Oyegbade and Muftau Abiodun Adediran respectively, the group congratulated Okunade and prayed Almighty God to grant him more wisdom to succeed in his new responsibility.
A prosecution witness, Daniel Okoye, on Wednesday narrated before an Ikeja Special Offences Court how the executive members of the Ikeja Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association allegedly defrauded the body of N20.1 million.