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As the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) holds its 19th Annual International Business Law Conference in Lagos from 2nd to 5th July 2025, former NBA National Officer, Okey Leo Ohagba, Esq., has extended a warm note of felicitation to the section, hailing its leadership and commitment to legal innovation. In a message titled “A Note of Felicitation,” Ohagba commended the Ozofu ’Latunde Ogiemudia-led Council and the Conference Planning Committee for curating a forward-thinking agenda. “This year’s conference theme, ‘The Future of Business Law in an Intelligence Age’, encapsulates today’s rapidly evolving legal business landscape,” he wrote. He…

In a sweeping and searing address that cut to the core of Nigeria’s democratic struggles, L.U.N. Nwakaeti, Esq., former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Owerri Branch (2016–2018), delivered the keynote lecture today at the launch of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Workstation in Owerri. In his paper titled “Judiciary and the Role of the Media in Deepening Nigerian Democracy,” Nwakaeti painted a grim picture of two pillars of democracy—the judiciary and the media—buckling under the weight of corruption, political manipulation, and loss of independence. The judiciary is in Revers “Very recently in Nigeria, it is sad to…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Owerri Branch, has released the much-anticipated report of its Fact-Finding Committee constituted to investigate the alleged physical assault of Anosike Madona Olachi, Esq. by Mrs. Emenike Chinwe Augustina, Assistant Registrar at the Magistrate Court, Awaka. The three-member committee—comprising Chetachi Success Udeh, Esq. (Chairperson), Chief Kelechi Ogugbuaja, Esq. (Member), and Godwin Iyke Umah, Esq. (Secretary)—submitted its report to the Branch Executive Committee on 28th June 2025, affirming that the lawyer was “verbally and physically assaulted during the lawful performance of her professional duties.” “The act was both unjustified and in violation of her rights as a…

The simmering tension within the Osun State judiciary has escalated into a full-blown constitutional standoff, as the Honourable Chief Judge of the State, Justice Oyebola Adepele Ojo, has filed a formal petition against the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Wole Jimi-Bada, Esq., alleging professional misconduct and grave constitutional infractions. In the petition, marked BB/LPDC/1672/2025 and addressed to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC), Justice Ojo accuses the Attorney General of unlawfully assuming the title and exercising the functions of Acting Chairman of the Osun State Judicial Service Commission (JSC)—a position which, by constitutional mandate, belongs solely to the Chief…

A member of the Nigerian Bar Association, Owerri Branch, Chigozie Victor Ezekiel, Esq., has fired a blistering open letter to the Chairman and Executive Committee of the branch, delivering a vote of no confidence in the Remuneration Order (Implementation and Enforcement) Committee and demanding its immediate dissolution. In the strongly-worded letter titled “Vote of No Confidence in the Remuneration Committee and Demand for Its Immediate Dissolution,” Ezekiel did not mince words in expressing his “grave disappointment” over the Committee’s consistent failure to fulfill its mandate — nearly two years after it was inaugurated. “I write this letter as a member…

Recently, President Bola Tinubu signed into law four radical tax reform bills that are expected to transform Nigeria’s fiscal and revenue framework. This is highly commendable as these Nigerian tax laws bring together many existing tax laws into one simplified and accessible document, making compliance easier for people and businesses. The four laws are the Nigeria Tax Act, 2025, the Nigeria Tax Administration Act, 2025, the Nigeria Revenue Service (Establishment) Act, 2025, and the Joint Revenue Board (Establishment) Act, 2025. Notwithstanding initial controversies, misconceptions and misunderstandings, these revolutionary tax legislations were passed by the National Assembly after extensive consultations with…

 It is common for people to Stand as Guarantors for Loans and also for Employees in a Company. It is also rife to see that there are cases where those loans are unpaid and the Employees engage in Stealing and the Guarantors are arrested albeit illegally. This Treatise Examines the Legality or otherwise of Guarantors being arrested and the nature of a Guaratorship. “A person who pledges payment or performance of a contract of another, but separately, as part of an independent contract with the obligee of the original contract.” In other words a Guarantor is a person who guarantees…

“On matters of security, the bulk (sic) stops at the President’s table.” Bola Ahmed Tinubu April 2014 On 26 January 2009, the Mamman Bello Ali died. He was the governor of Yobe State in north-east Nigeria. At around the same time, an anti-terrorism campaign by the government of Nigeria in Yobe State and its neighbour, Borno State, was about to make a murderous transition into a full-blown insurgency. As Governor Mamman Ali made his earthly transition in a Florida hospital, his deputy, Ibrahim Gaidam assumed office on the same day as the new governor of Yobe State. Today, as Minister…

Nigerians are reacting with a mix of outrage, sarcasm, and disbelief following revelations of alleged age falsification within the Imo State Judiciary—a scandal now drawing national attention and calling the integrity of judicial appointments into question. Prominent human rights advocate and former Chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, ignited the conversation on this morning with a scathing post on X (formerly Twitter): “The @njcNig has acted firmly on the allegations of age racketeering in the judiciary in Imo State, but Imo State is only an example. The #NJC has a duty to act more systemically. If…

Following the decisive outcome of the National Judicial Council (NJC) meeting held on 26 June 2025, where the Council compulsorily retired Hon. Justice T.N. Nzeukwu for presenting himself for swearing-in as Acting Chief Judge of Imo State despite being only the fourth most senior judge, reactions have poured in from legal practitioners within and beyond Imo State, reigniting the debate on accountability in judicial governance. Justice Nzeukwu’s removal came after months of legal and civic outcry against what was widely described as a constitutional aberration and executive hijack of the Imo Judiciary. The NJC found his conduct in flagrant violation…