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    Mallam El-Rufai: The Flogging of a Dead Horse

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow For the better part of this and the previous week, Nigeria’s social media space has been agog with arguments for and against the invitation of Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai to speak at the 60thAnnual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association(NBA). […] More

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    NBA Tasks INEC On New Election Date

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to utilize the six weeks period of postponement of the country’s general election to resolve the challenges surrounding the issuance of Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs. There are still about […] More

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    NBA Remembers Gani Fawehinmi

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The 11th Chief Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture/symposium which also doubles as Fawehinmism and the 2nd Nigeria Bar Association, NBA Ikeja Gani Fawehinmi Integrity Award, holds today at the Oranmiyan Hall, Airport Hotel, Lagos. In a mass array of deep coloured suits, lawyers from […] More

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    Women’s Status, Their Hijab and the Law

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow By AMINA SALIHU FIDA, the International Federation of Women Lawyers, now 50 years old in Nigeria, recently held gala and reflection sessions under the theme, 50 Years of Investing in Women and Children. One of the sessions, to which I belonged, was on […] More

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    ‘Corruption Limits Legal Practice In Nigeria’ – NBA

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, section on legal practice, has warned that corruption is a major factor limiting the expansion of the legal practice in Nigeria. The group stated this at the 8th Annual Conference of the NBA- Section on Legal Practice. The […] More

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    NBA Pleads for Release of Former President Wali

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA has pleaded for the release of Okey Wali, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN who is the immediate past President of the association. Wali, the 26th president of NBA, was said to have been abducted in Port Harcourt, Rivers […] More