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Nigerian Bar Association
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Official Twitter Account of the Nigerian Bar Association.
Feb 6 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING: NBA NEC TAKES DECISIVE ACTION OVER EKITI MAGISTRATE’S CONTROVERSIAL ORDER

Following confirmation that Chief Magistrate Oluwadare T.O. Esq. issued an order barring lawyers from applying to lift a freezing order—and even directing their arrest—

1. the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has taken firm action to address this grave violation of legal ethics and due process.

At its meeting, NEC resolved as follows:

2.
Jul 1, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The attention of the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA) has been drawn to certain information making the rounds that the ECNBA or the NBA commissioned a survey of members as to who their choice of the President of the Association is or should be.
Thread This understandably, has caused some anxiety for some of our members. Nothing can be farther from the truth. The ECNBA states categorically that it did not commission any person or body of persons to conduct any such inquiry or survey.
Dec 6, 2019 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
DESECRATION AND ASSAULT ON THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT BY DSS: NBA URGES ALL NIGERIANS TO DEFEND THE RULE OF LAW.

The Nigerian Bar Association is greatly dismayed at the exhibition of primitivity, thuggery, insane passion for lawlessness, contempt and disrespect for the rule of law by the agents of the Department of State Services (DSS) within the precincts of the Federal High Court, Abuja while attempting to re-arrest Citizens Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare earlier today.
Mar 10, 2019 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
SOCIAL MEDIA REPORTS OF NBA’SQUERY TO ALIYU UMAR, SAN

1. My attention has just been drawn to social media reports of this morning on the purported query issued by the NBA to Aliyu Umar, SAN over his prosecution of the Charge against Honorable Mr. Justice Walter S N Onnoghen the Chief Justice of Nigeria before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. I know nothing of that query, and I did not authorize it. I learnt of it for the first time from the social media reports this morning and promptly called Jonathan Taidi, the NBA General Secretary for
Jan 25, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
COUP AGAINST THE NIGERIAN JUDICIARY AND SUSPENSION OF THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION

1. The news media has been awash this evening with the news of the purported suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Honorable Mr. Justice Walter S C Onnoghen, GCON by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR and the swearing in of Hon Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria. We are told that this was pursuant to an Ex-Parte Order that was issued by the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Wednesday, 23 January 2019.
Jan 13, 2019 • 27 tweets • 6 min read
Assault, Intimidation and Desecration of the Judiciary Must Stop

1. Nigerians have witnessed again the targeted assault of the judiciary by agents of the Federal Government of Nigeria (“FGN”) epitomized by today’s media trial of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Honorable Mr... Justice Walter S N Onnoghen, GCON (“CJN”). According to media reports which have now been validated by the Statement of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (“CCT”) that was released today an application was “filed by the Code of Conduct Bureau to the CCT Chairman yesterday for the