The Bauchi and Yobe branches of the Nigerian Bar Association have threatened to boycott the association’s annual general conference over the decision to withdraw Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, as a participant. In separate statements issued Friday, the NBA branches expressed displeasure with the decision of the association’s leadership to withdraw an earlier invitation extended …
The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr Paul Usoro (SAN), has explained why the association withdrew the invitation it once gave to the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, to speak at this year’s edition of the NBA Annual General Conference. Usoro said the decision to withdraw the invitation was because the majority of …
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The world over, there is a push towards providing greater value for services rendered. To this end, the Nigerian Bar Association, the umbrella association of lawyers is keying into this ideology and seeks to bring forward a Unified Multipurpose Identification (UMID) Card to be known as the Bar Card. This card utilizes a microchip embedded …
Further to my update report of 31 May 2020, I am pleased to inform our members that the NBA Welfare Committee submitted its COVID-19 Pandemic Relief Fund Report on Tuesday, 04 August 2020. The Committee raised a total sum of N92,884,505.00 and has recommended in its Report that this amount, given the inelastic size of …
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