…armed forces, police, customs, and immigration services for remarks he made at the Nigerian Bar Association's 66th Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt, Rivers state.In a video released on Friday, September 4, Otse said he had reflected on his conference speech and concluded that it was unfair to security personn…

…as VeryDarkMan (VDM), has walked back a portion of his controversial remarks at the Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference, offering a public apology to military personnel, police officers and other security operatives.In a video shared on his Instagram page on September 4, 2026, VDM admitted that his sweep…

Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Afam Osigwe, SAN, said his administration resisted attempts to undermine the association’s independence and remained firm in defending constitutional democracy and the rule of law. Osigwe made the declaration last Friday while presenting his final annual report at the j…

…donated brand-new buses to the state councils of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Nigerian Bar Association and Nigerian Medical Association, as well as Kaduna State University and the Nigerian Correctional Service. Sani, who presented the vehicles to the beneficiaries in Kaduna, said the gesture was aimed at addressi…

…to provide security at the venue of the just-concluded Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, held at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium, Elekahia, Port Harcourt. The grieving father, while speaking to newsmen, lamented that the officers left their duty post to commit a crime. Mr Obodo stated, “The DPO also t…

…this while reacting to the controversy surrounding VeryDarkMan's invitation to the Nigerian Bar Association's 66th Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt. He opined that VDM and others like him would not have emerged if Nigeria had a functional police and judicial system. He warned that more personalities like Very…

…the negotiations move from general principles to the presidential ticket.Speaking at the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, conference in Port Harcourt, last week, Amaechi said building a strong opposition coalition is difficult because of competing personal ambitions among political leaders who find it difficult to step d…

…Nnamdi Kanu Global Legal Consortium, made the assertion in a petition addressed to the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and the International Bar Association, IBA. He urged the NBA and the IBA to ask the Supreme Court to explain the laws on which it relied on to restore counts in the charge against Kanu that were quashed…

…at highway checkpoints collude with kidnappers. Speaking as a panellist at the recent Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt, VeryDarkMan accused checkpoint officers of monitoring motorists, identifying wealthy travellers, and leaking their movements to criminals for ransom. Reacting to the…

…Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, Dr Chidi Julius Lloyd, has criticised the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) over the invitation of social media personality Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), to speak at its ongoing 66th Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt. Lloyd, a former law…

…ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku’s absence from the Peace Accord signing. The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, had organised a Peace Accord signing for political parties and their candidates in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Faulting their absence, Agada said only the NDC’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi,…

…over the reason for his invitation to the ongoing 2026 Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association. VeryDarkMan stated this on Tuesday while he spoke as a panellist at the conference in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. In his remarks, VeryDarkMan cautioned that while he wasn’t a professional who w…

…proceeds of fuel susidy removal. The ex-governor of Anambra State spoke on Monday at the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) conference in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, while reacting to the debate over whether fuel subsidy should be restored as proposed by Atiku. Atiku, who campaigned for the removal of fuel subsidy during…

…by the court. The incident prompted broad public outrage and drew condemnations from the Nigerian Bar Association and the National Human Rights Commission, both of which said it violated the Child Rights Act, 2003. The case also thrust into the spotlight the plight of children in conflict with the law: the shortage of…

The outgoing President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Afam Osigwe, has decried the rising cases of political killings and violence in Osun State ahead of Saturday’s governorship election and urged security agents to remain professional. Osigwe, while addressing journalists in Osogbo, the state capital, on Wednesday,…

…legal framework, neither the CJN, the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee nor the Nigerian Bar Association could impose requirements on lawyers that were not expressly contained in the Act. The NLS also challenged what it described as inconsistency in the treatment of the controversial “Blue Silks” rank of Senior…

…in Ikorodu and filed a petition to the EFCC on behalf of clients using a forged Nigerian Bar Association sealInvestigations revealed that both the original petition and a later withdrawal letter carried the counterfeit NBA seal. Anoruo admitted obtaining from a business centrePAY ATTENTION: Find it fast with our new se…

…Other members include a director from the Ministry of Justice; representatives of the Nigerian Bar Association; the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Force Criminal Investigation Department, Gombe; and the Department of State Services. The Permanent Secretary, Establishment and Service Matters, Office of the Head…

…the state government addresses the outstanding issues. Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin Branch, Saad Jimoh Muhammad, has appealed to the state government to open negotiations with the striking workers to avert a prolonged disruption in the justice sector. He said the dispute was unfortuna…

…practitioner explained that there is no Nigerian law, legal tradition, or rule of the Nigerian Bar Association requiring lawyers to be buried in a special manner because of their profession. Lawyer dismisses common burial myths According to Stella Justice, one of the most common misconceptions is that lawyers are burie…

…possible time,” the petition read. At the 2026 Legal Education Summit organised by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in May, senior lawyers expressed varied opinions on a proposal to abolish the Nigerian Law School. While the Vice-Chancellor of Imo State University, Prof. Uchefula Chukwumaeze, SAN, cited prevailing re…

THE Nigerian Bar Association recently elected Mrs Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, as its 33rd President, making her only the second woman to lead the Association and the first elected to the office. The post NBA election: Can Nigerian lawyers guard Nigerian democracy? appeared first on Tribune Online.

…As part of the celebration, the organisers announced that former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata, will chair the event, while the Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, will serve as co-chair. They further disclosed that the Director-General of the Nigerian Safety Inve…

…Legal experts demand due process Speaking on the matter, a former Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr Monday Ubani, SAN, said a university could not be run like a secondary school. “An individual cannot be running a university like a secondary school. The university system has established structures, and…

Senior Advocate of Nigeria and former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law, Dr Monday Ubani, on Tuesday formally received his Doctor of Philosophy in Law from Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, emerging as the institution’s best graduating PhD student in Law…