Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)
16 Mar
Despite criticism, president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Yakubu Maikyua, has defended his position on the February 25 presidential and National Assembly election.
8 Mar
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to fix all glitches in the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines before the March 11 governorship and state assembly elections. The association also asked INEC to exclude all its collation and returning officers with proven cases of misconduct in the February…
2 Jan
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has constituted a nine-member ad hoc committee to probe murder of female lawyer, Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem and Gafaru Buraimoh, killed by police officers in Lagos. A statement by National Publicity Secretary, Akorede Habeeb Lawal, reads in part: “We start by acknowledging that nothing we do will ever be enough to…
28 Dec
The House of Representatives has called for a ban on police officers from consuming alcohol and other hard substances capable of inhibiting their sense of reasoning. Adopting the motion, the lawmakers while agreeing that the Nigerian police act on the general conduct of the police officers should be reviewed, observed a minute silence for the…
27 Dec
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has demanded full disclosures about the cold blooded murder of their member, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem, allegedly by an officer of the Nigeria Police Force attached to Ajiwe Police Station in Ajah, Lagos State on Christmas day. The incident was reported to have occurred when Mrs Raheem was returning from a…
27 Dec
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Monday requested the police to come up with more details of the alleged murder of a Lagos-based female lawyer, Mrs Bolanle Raheem. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Raheem was allegedly shot dead on Christmas Day by a police officer attached to the Ajiwe Police Station in…
24 Mar 2022
The Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB) has asked the 9th National Assembly to lay to rest the decade-long advocacy for the passage of the National Building Code, a regulatory document that has been before the National Assembly for over ten years. NIOB also urged government and relevant stakeholders to rise up to the challenge and…
28 Mar 2015
TO ensure that sanity prevails in the polity after the general elections, the national intervention group of Project Nigeria Movement (PNM), led by two elder statesmen, Professor Ben Nwabueze (SAN) and Alhaji Maitama Sule said it has commenced nationwide mobilization of leaders of conscience to secure Nigeria's hard won civil rule.
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