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The Nigerian Bar Association has demanded the immediate suspension of the Director-General of Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi, over the style used in rearresting Omoyele Sowore in court premises. Operatives of the DSS had stormed the Federal High Court on Friday to arrest Sowore...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Paul Usoro, yesterday emerged the new President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) after a keenly contested election. Usoro, who was a major member of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki’s legal team at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), polled 4,509 votes...

The Nigeria Intervention Movement, being spearheaded by a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), and others, says it has finalised plans to coalesce with 15 political parties and groups ahead of the 2019 general elections. In a statement on Tuesday by its …...

Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, has disbarred seven lawyers and suspended 12 others over alleged involvement in various acts of professional misconduct....... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2L65DsZ Get More Nigeria Metro News

Human rights lawyer, Dr. Kayode Ajulo, has called on the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) to boycott the courts if the Buhari government fails to honour the latest court order granting.... Read more via Daily Post Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2Noc4sQ Get More Nigeria Political News

A human rights lawyer, Olisa Agbakoba, says declaring June 12 as the new date for the celebration of Democracy Day in Nigeria was illegal but he would not... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2JOV0hy Get More Nigeria Political News

Senior Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Sen Ita Enang, yesterday, said President Muhammadu Buhari’s government is the most transparent. Enang stated this when lawyers from Akwa Ibom, under the... Read more via Leadership Newspaper –...