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.
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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.
The plan to elevate Lagos to become a smart city is not a mere political rhetoric, but an agenda that is being supported by policies that will make the goal achievable, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said.
The Zamfara Chapter of the Nigeria Bar Association has commended the Supreme Court over the judgment against the All Progressives Congress in the state.
The Benin Branch of the Nigeria Bar Association on Thursday barred its members from handling cases of kidnapping.
Unknown gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday abducted the immediate past Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association, Jalingo branch, Joel Ubandoma.
The Police Command in Kano State on Thursday apologised to the state branch of the Nigerian Bar Association over the alleged attack and maltreatment of some lawyers in the state.
The Nigerian Bar Association Kano State Branch has given the state police command 48 hours to tender public apology to the association for allegedly attacking and maltreating its members while on their lawful duties.
There was mild drama in Ikeja, Lagos State on Monday as operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arrested Yinka Farounbi, a former Chairman of the Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association.
Justice Sherifat Solebo of a Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja on Wednesday objected to an attempt to disrupt proceedings in her courtroom by a task force of the Nigeria Bar Association, Ikeja Branch.
The directive by Nigerian Bar Association calling on its members to boycott the courts for two days stalled the hearing of a suit challenging the trial of Justice Walter Onnoghen.