Usoros is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission before Justice Rilwan Aikawa on 10 counts bordering on the offence.
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Udom Idongesit, a prosecution witness in the case of an alleged N1.4 billion money laundering involving Paul Usoro, President, Nigerian Bar Association, on Wednesday told Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how N700 million was paid into Usoro’s account on the instruction of Linus Nkan, a former Accountant-General, Akwa Ibom State.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission charged Usoro before Justice Rilwan Aikawa on a 10 counts charge bordering on fraud.
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.
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.
Paul Usoro, National President of the Nigerian Bar Association, has called for the full implementation and domestication of the administration of Criminal Justice Act in the country.
The defence on Monday told a Federal High Court that it applied for an order to direct prosecution to supply it with the summary of evidence it would provide in the trial of Nigerian Bar Association President Paul Usoro.
The EFCC on Friday re-arraigned the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Paul Usoro, in a Federal High Court Lagos, on 10 counts of N1.4 billion fraud.
The Nigerian Bar Association has again called on the executive arm of the Federal Government to discontinue the prosecution of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen.
The trial of President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Paul Usoro, over N1.4 billion fraud, could not proceed on Tuesday before Justice Muslim Hassan of Federal High Court Lagos, following the transfer of the case to a new judge, Prof. Chuka Obiozor.
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.
Activities were stalled at FCT High Court, Apo, as lawyers complied with directive of Nigerian Bar Association to boycott the courts nationwide for two days to protest suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen, Chief Justice of Nigeria.
Lawyers on Tuesday shunned a directive of the Nigerian Bar Association calling on its members to boycott courts nationwide for two days, following suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen, as Chief Judge of Nigeria.
The Nigerian Bar Association after its National Executive Committee meeting on Monday in Abuja, resolved to embark on a `two-day warning boycott’ of courts nationwide.
The Nigerian Bar Association has kicked against the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Federal Government is prosecuting the CJN at the Code of Conduct Tribunal for allegedly failing to declare his assets
EFCC preferred a 10 count charge against the accused, which is pending before Justice Muslim Hassan.
The proposed arraignment of President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Paul Usoro, over alleged N1.4 billion fraud, was on Monday, stalled due to non-service of the criminal charge on the accused.
The EFCC had last week filed an alleged N1.4 billion fraud charge against Usoro before the Federal High Court in Lagos and he is expected to be arraigned on Monday (today).
The Economic and Financial Commission lacks the locus standi to meddle into client-lawyer contractual relationship, the Nigerian Bar Association said.