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 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 APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A coalition of Nigerian legal practitioners has dragged the People’s Republic of China to court over the effects of the Coronavirus outbreak on the West African giant. The lawyers are demanding $200 billion as damages for the “loss of lives, economic strangulation, trauma, hardship, social disorientation, mental torture and disruption of…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lawyers on Thursday said a Kano Federal High Court ruling setting aside the ruling of the FCT High Court which suspended national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, from office cannot stand. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), a Lagos-based legal practitioner and human rights activist, cautioned judges to be careful not…