Tag: NBA
Influence peddling: NBA president, Maikyau absent as Olanipekun presides over call to bar ceremony
The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Yakubu Chnonoko Maikyau, SAN, has declined to participate in the ongoing Call to Bar Ceremony.
This [...]
Influence peddling: Again, NBA asks Olanipekun to recuse self, requests Justice Odili preside over call-to-bar ceremony
The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Yakubu Maikyau has written to the Chairman, Body of Benchers, Chief Wole Ol [...]
Influence peddling: Lawyer quits membership of JRP over resignation letter to Olanipekun
A prominent member of the inner bar and former Attorney-General of Ogun State, Mr Oluwemimo Ogunde, SAN, has resigned his membership of Justic [...]
Influence peddling: Lawyer faults Olumide Akpata’s recusal letter to Olanipekun
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Benbella Anachebe has faulted the rationale behind the recusal letter written and signed by the Nigeria Bar Association [...]
Olanipekun slams Akpata, accuse him of using legal instrument to witch-hunt perceived enemies
The Chairman of the Body of Benchers (BOB), Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) has used the Call to bar ceremony on Wednesday to warn lawyers against using a [...]
Influence peddling: Wole Olanipekun reacts to NBA president’s letter asking him to step down as BoB chairman
The Chairman of Body of Benchers (BoB), Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), has said that he is angry with the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
Olanipekun [...]
Trouble in Nigeria’s legal body as NBA president Akpata fail to attend Body of Benchers’ meeting
The outgoing president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata was conspicuously absent on Tuesday at the meeting of the Body of Bencher [...]
NBA begins disciplinary action against partner in Wole Olanipekun’s law firm for trying to steal client
The Nigerian Bar Association has began disciplinary proceedings against Adekunbi Ogunde Esq, a Partner at the Law Firm of Body of Benchers Cha [...]
Yakubu Maikyau takes over as NBA president
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, has emerged as the 36th President of the Nigerian Bar Association NBA.
Maikyau emerged during [...]
Mob chanted secessionist slogans while attacking me, says CCT chairman
The Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, says that not only did a mob assault him at Banex plaza Abuja, but that th [...]