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Chukwuka Ikwuazom, SAN Withdraws from the 2024 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Presidential Election, Citing Electoral Process Integrity Compromise

Chukwuka Ikwuazom, SAN Withdraws from the 2024 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Presidential Election, Citing Electoral Process Integrity Compromise In his announcement dated 20 July and titled “Chukwuka Ikwuazom, SAN: Withdrawal from NBA Presidential Election”, the learned silk stated the reasons for his decision and his position as follows: “It is with a heavy heart that I, Chukwuka Ikwuazom,…

2024 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) National Officers Election Live Update (20 July 2024)

It Is Unconstitutional For Ex-Governors And Their Deputies To Receive Pension From The States In Nigeria

It Is Unconstitutional For Ex-Governors And Their Deputies To Receive Pension From The States In Nigeria Copyright © 24 March 2024 By Yusuf Shehu Usman, Senior Nigerian Lawyer, Former Nasarawa State Attorney-General & Commissioner for Justice All the State Houses of Assembly that enacted Pension Laws, under which they confer life pensions and other outrageous and outlandish benefits for…

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Nigerian Legal Research and Practice Support Initiative

NIGERIAN LEGAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE SUPPORT INITIATIVE (NLRSI) GENERAL INFORMATION AND RULES OF THE WHATSAPP AND TELEGRAM GROUPS* OBJECTIVE OF THE GROUP 1. The goal of the Nigerian Legal Research and Practice Support Initiative (NLRSI) is to function as a collaborative modern legal research and practice platform for licensed Nigerian lawyers (i.e. lawyers in private legal practice, lawyers in…

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Developments in Human Rights Law and the New Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information: The New Human Rights-Advocacy Approach and the Ten Criteria for the Formal Recognition of New Human Rights Book and eBook

This book, Developments in Human Rights Law and the New Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information: The New Human Rights-Advocacy Approach and the Ten Criteria for the Formal Recognition of New Human Rights(Volume 1 of the Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series), offers the first and only comprehensive analysis of the right of every person (including…

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Academic and Literary Discrimination: The Error in Sylvester Udemezue's Insightful Exposition on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) By Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee

Academic and Literary Discrimination: The Error in Sylvester Udemezue’s Insightful Exposition on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) By Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee

Academic and Literary Discrimination: The Error in Sylvester Udemezue’s Insightful Exposition on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)

Copyright © 5 September 2020 By Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee Reproduction of this article is prohibited and actionable, as it violates the moral and intellectual property rights of the author, Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee

Sylvester Udemezue(a Nigerian lawyer and a prolific…

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Nigerian Lawyers Directory Congratulates Mrs Ini Irene Pepple on her Successful Tenure as Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) National Assistant Financial Secretary

The Nigerian Lawyers Directory, Google’s best-ranked directory of Nigerian lawyers and law firms, heartily congratulates Mrs Iniobong Irene Peppleon her successful tenure as Nigerian…

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Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Alleged Election Fraud: EFCC To Arraign Two Persons for Rigging

Below is the full text of a press statement by the Media & Publicity department of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), dated 22 July 2020, on the preparedness of EFCC to arraign two persons in connection with alleged electoral fraud in the conduct of the election into the national…

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Modernisation of an Ailing Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the Challenges for the Next NBA President By Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee

Modernisation of an Ailing Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the Challenges for the Next NBA President

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) must self-reform or we opt for the formation of a parallel Nigerian lawyers association, the way accountants now have parallel associations in Nigeria: Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and…

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Professional Legal Directory For Qualified Nigerian Lawyers Website

Nigerian Lawyers Directory is Nigeria’s free premium professional and comprehensive legal directory for Nigerian law firms; lawyers (legal practitioners, barristers, solicitors, or attorneys); law-related organisations; Nigerian legal information; Nigerian law resources; and the Nigerian legal system.

Every lawyer who intends to…

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A Brief Profile and Manifesto of Orowhuo W. A. Okocha, Esq.

“Only a life lived in service to others is worth living.” By Albert Einstein

I, Orowhuo W. A. Okocha, Esq., fondly called “Oros” by my friends, colleagues and associates, am a proud alumnus of both the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, where I obtained my LLB, and Brunel University, London, United…

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Section 11 of the Legal Practitioners Act: Penalties for Unprofessional Conduct, etc. (Nigeria Lawyers)

Citation: Legal Practitioners Act 1975, Chapter L11 (Cap. L11), Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004

11. Penalties for Unprofessional Conduct, etc.

(1) Where —

(a) a person whose name is on the roll is judged by the Disciplinary Committee to be guilty of infamous conduct in any professional…

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Section 10 of the Legal Practitioners Act: Establishment of Disciplinary Committee (Nigeria Lawyers)

Citation: Legal Practitioners Act 1975, Chapter L11 (Cap. L11), Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004

10. Establishment of Disciplinary Committee

(1) There shall be a committee to be known as the Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee (in this Act referred to as “the Disciplinary Committee”)…

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Section 9 of the Legal Practitioners Act: Liability for Negligence (Nigeria Lawyers)

Citation: Legal Practitioners Act 1975, Chapter L11 (Cap. L11), Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004

9. Liability for Negligence

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person shall not be immune from liability for damage attributable to his negligence while acting in his capacity as a legal…

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Section 8 of the Legal Practitioners Act: Right of Audience, and Precedence (Nigeria Lawyers)

Citation: Legal Practitioners Act 1975, Chapter L11 (Cap. L11), Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004

8. Right of Audience, and Precedence

(1) Subject to the provisions of the next following subsection and of any enactment in force in any part of Nigeria prohibiting or restricting the right of any…

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Section 7 of the Legal Practitioners Act: Enrolment (Nigeria Lawyers)

Citation: Legal Practitioners Act 1975, Chapter L11 (Cap. L11), Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004

7. Enrolment

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person shall be entitled to have his name enrolled if, and only if —

(a) he has been called to the Bar by the Benchers; and

(b) he produces a certificate of his…

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Section 6 of the Legal Practitioners Act: Privilege of Law Officers (Nigeria Lawyers)

Citation: Legal Practitioners Act 1975, Chapter L11 (Cap. L11), Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004

6. Privilege of Law Officers

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act but subject as provided in section 8(4) and the First Schedule hereto, all courts of law in Nigeria before which legal…

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