Investigations carried out by www.gongnews.net showed that the outgoing Chairman, Mr. John Agada Elachi, who is swimming in a floodgate of allegations bothering on financial maladministration, is also fingered to be behind the subversion of the rules to enable him bring in stooges that may help cover his tracks
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This was contained in a statement signed by Chukwudi Obieze, the Chairman of the NBA, Onitsha Branch and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Onitsha on Sunday
The CJN, who has earlier vowed to continue from where his predecessors stopped in the cleansing of the judiciary, said that the same lawyers, both old and young, who decried the rots on the Bench are the first to jump to seek a court order to stop the National Judicial Council from investigating judges alleged to have acted wrongly
Wali was said to have been abducted by unknown persons at about 9pm in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Saturday
In a congratulatory statement issued in Lagos by Felix Ofou, his Press Secretary, the governor noted that the election of the new NBA executive took place at a time when men of goodwill must be ready to ward off threats to Nigeria’s fledgling democracy
Seasoned journalist and lawyer, Gbolahan Gbadamosi, emerged as the Public Relations Officer of the association
It also observed that senior citizens used to have a hectic time coping with younger people on the queue, even though they were allowed in some instances to have the first go
EWG is one of the 29 Domestic and international Observers accredited by the Independent National Electoral Commission to observe Saturday’s election
The commission equally called on the National Assembly to urgently reconvene plenary in memory of the dead children and all others that died in the ongoing crisis in the North East
The bank said the project was aimed at addressing the gap that prevented key growth centres from expanding and supporting small and medium enterprises to develop new business models
The disaster had since thrown members of the state chapter of the Nigerian Bar Association into sorrow
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Moses Eguavoen, who received the angry lawyers on behalf of the commissioner, promised to bring the perpetrators to book.
The Nigeria Bar Association is the complainant in all the matters
While declaring open the 2013 Law Week of the NBA, Benin Branch, on Monday, the governor said: “Recently, I watched the president of the NBA, saying in Yenogoa, Beyelsa State, that the Governors’ Forum should be discarded
Ukiri, who is alleged to have converted a N35 million judgement sum paid by the Central Bank of Nigeria to his client, Samuel Onowighose, to his personal use, will be docked on Monday on a three-count charge before a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State