Tag: NBA

‘Tinubu is legitimate President as declared by INEC’ – NBA

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) said it was wrong to refer to President Bola Tinubu as an illegal president since no court has set aside his declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC). The body of lawyers submitted that as of today, “there is only one President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in the person of President Bola Tinubu.” President of the NBA, Yakubu Maikyau made the assertion during the weekend, at a public presentation of the communique issued at the 63rd Annual General Conference of the association,…

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“67% of our reports signify that 2023 election was satisfactory – NBA

Aminu Imam

President, Nigeria Bar Association, (NBA), Yakubu Maikyau (SAN), has said that in the NBA report, 20 percent of those who turned in their report said the 2023 election was excellent, and also 67 percent of those who turned in their report said that the election was satisfactory. Yakubu Maikyau made the statement in an interview on a television programme, when he was told that some people question how he is leading the NBA with respect to his comments and assessment of the 2023 election, comparing it with election union observer…

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No Constitutional provision for an Interim Govt. — Ex-NBA President, Agbakoba

Aminu Imam

A former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba, says there is no provision for an interim government in the country’s Constitution. Agbakoba’s comments come a day after the Department of State Services (DSS) alerted the nation to plots by some political actors to bring an interim government into power and stop Bola Ahmed Tinubu from being inaugurated as Nigeria’s president. The DSS said the plot includes embarking on violent protests nationwide to engineer the declaration of a state of emergency as well as securing frivolous court injunctions…

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‘Only 8 percent voters rated Presidential/NASS elections poor’ – NBA report

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has said only eight percent of voters rated the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections as poor. NBA National Publicity Secretary, Akorede Lawal, said in an issued statement on Tuesday, that this was part of the findings contained in the interim report of the NBA Election Working Group. The interim report was based on the reports sent to the NBA 2023 Elections Situation Room by the NBA Election Observers from the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT). Recall that…

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2022 NBA Annual Conference: “Everything negative happening in Nigeria” – Atiku

Aminu Imam

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that every negative thing now happens in the Nigeria of today. The former vice-president, who stated this at the on-going 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA) in Lagos, stated that since the return of democracy in 1998/99, Nigeria had never experienced this level of poverty, insecurity and unemployment. Atiku said, “Nigeria has never found itself in such a very, very critical point in our history. Today, we have had all the negative indices.…

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Electoral Bill: Override Buhari’s veto, – NBA urges NASS

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA), has urged the National Assembly to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the Electoral Amendment Bill. The NBA had issued this statement a few days before President Buhari in a letter to the National Assembly on Tuesday, declined his assent to the Bill. Earlier, rising from its National Executive Committee (NEC) held in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on December 16, the NBA had advised President Buhari to sign the Bill into law. The body, which just released its NEC resolution communiqué on Wednesday, by the NBA’s…

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Justice Odili’s home raid may cost AGF his SAN title, says NBA president

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA), has continued to express its dismay over the invasion of the Abuja home of Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili, by some security operatives of the Federal Government, last week. The President of the NBA, Olumide Akpata, at a special press briefing in Lagos on Friday, described the operation as egregious and the gathering of an ominous cloud over the judiciary. According to him, it was reminiscent of how operatives of the Department of State Services, (DSS), in 2016 raided the homes of seven judges and…

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‘Crushing of secessionists is constitutional’ – 1st NBA Vice-President

Aminu Imam

Nigerian Bar Association’s first Vice-President, John Aikpokpo-Martins has stated that Nigeria’s Constitution allows the crushing of secessionists. Aikpokpo-Martins, who disclosed this in a post on his Facebook page at the weekend, said any elected President of Nigeria is constitutionally bound to crush secessionists like and Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho) and Nnamdi Kanu. He noted that Nigerian law prohibits self-determination agitations, noting that they are “simply unconstitutional”. The Legal Practitioner while stating that Chapter 4 (fundamental human rights guaranteed provisions) of the 1999 Constitution does not include the right to…

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Northern lawyers disown “New NBA”

Ishaku Yohanna
Cross Section of Lawyers

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olumide Akpata, has held a critical interactive session with stakeholders of the Nigerian Bar Association in Northern Nigeria attended by over 40 serving Chairmen of various NBA Branches in the North, including several past and current Bar Chairmen. At the meeting, the attendees appointed Yunus Ustaz Usman, SAN, a respected leader of the Kaduna Bar, as their spokesman. In his speech Mr. Ustaz, SAN speaking on behalf of the other attendees, affirmed their support for the administration of the President and…

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Aggrieved northern lawyers exit NBA, form new association

Ishaku Yohanna
Cross Section of Lawyers

Some aggrieved Northern lawyers have constituted a new association named New Nigerian Bar Association, NNBA, after pulling out of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. The lawyers also accused the NBA of been biased given the controversy that ensued after it invited the Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai following a petition against the governor. In a statement, the new association said the decision of the NBA to dis-invite El-rufai has generated increased concern which necessitated their withdrawal from the association. According to the aggrieved lawyers, the decision of NBA over the…

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