Many State Governors across the country have asked Nigerians to be Christ-like as Christians across the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on Saturday. Most of the messages were communicated via official statements obtained by Lawyard. In his statement,…
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and one of the most notable advocates against apartheid in South Africa, is dead. A BBC report early on Sunday stated that the revered cleric died at the age of 90. The…
Notice is hereby given that voting for all CLA members to vote for their new Council will open at 12 midnight GMT on Wednesday 18th January 2022. Further to the Constitutional changes to expand the representation on Council for the…
This will be the final newsletter of 2021 and provides an opportunity for me to share some reflections of the year and to wish all CLA colleagues a happy, prosperous, and healthy new year. One undoubted highlight of 2021 was…
Justice Charles Agbaza of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Jabi, Abuja on Thursday, issued a warrant for the arrest of the Deputy Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Hon. Amarachi Iwuanyanwu, over his alleged…
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Federal Ministry of Finance to pay withheld salaries of resident doctors for the month of September and October 2021. The Minister of Labour, Dr Chris Ngige, disclosed this to State House correspondents after a…
The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, Justice John Tsoho, says about 30,197 criminal cases were filed between September 2020 and June 2021. Justice Tsoho disclosed this, on Thursday, while delivering a speech to formally declare the…
The Nigerian Bar Association has constituted Committee for the 2022 general election. The Electoral Committee was constituted on Thursday at the NEC meeting of the NBA, held at Abeokuta the State Capital of Ogun State and Richard Ayodele Akintunde SAN….
Democracy remains the best system of establishing governments because it guarantees respect for the fundamental rights of individuals to choose their leaders, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo stated this yesterday in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, where…
The Nigeria Bar (NBA), National Executive Council (NEC), at its on going meeting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, the Nigerian Bar Association National Executive Council (NBA-NEC) has equivocally condemned attacks by Gboyega Awomolo SAN directed at the NBA President, Olumide Akpata….