LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.) and the Nigeria Bar Association are at logger head over demand by Rivers state Sole Administrator for the refund of N300m paid to the Association for the hosting of their 2025 annual convention in Rivers State. The NBA annual conference was scheduled…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has asked President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency on the issue of insecurity in the country. NBA, which is the umbrella body of legal practitioners in the country, in a state of the nation address it presented in Abuja on Wednesday, maintained that “what…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A video which captured the moment Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi received a rousing welcome while being ushered in at the ongoing Nigeria Bar Association general conference in Lagos, has been shared online. Asides Peter Obi, three other leading presidential candidates, Atiku Abubakar of PDP, Bola Tinubu of APC and Rabiu Kwankwaso…
By Henry Ojelu LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law, NBA-SPIDEL, Dr Monday Ubani have asked the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami to direct the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC to comply with the recent Federal High Court judgment on salaries of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has filed a suit to challenge the extension of the tenure of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu by President Muhammadu Buhari. The suit was filed against Buhari, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Police Service Commission, and Adamu. “The NBA’s position in the Suit is…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Mr Peter Obi, has congratulated Olumide Akpata on his recent election as President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), while urging him to draw on his decades of professional experience to reposition the Association to greater heights. In a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnapped Court of Appeal Justice Chioma Iheme-Nwosu has been released. She was released on Wednesday night. No official statement has been issued by the police or any of the law enforcement agencies but the news of her release was broke in a short messaged by the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The secretariat of Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association was invaded on Wednesday by security men made up police and men of the Department of State Security, DSS. The invasion which was carried out against the backdrop of the NBA’s plan to lead a protest against the new tax regime in…