Paul Usoro is one of Nigeria’s leading lawyers, with industry-leading expertise in commercial and telecommunications law. In the fourth part of a series of articles, he tackles the issue of welfare for young practitioners in the legal profession, the structural problems fuelling it and set out a range of proposals the Nigerian Bar Association should consider […]
Paul Usoro is one of Nigeria’s leading lawyers, with industry-leading expertise in commercial and telecommunications law. In the third part of a series of articles, he tackles the issue of welfare for young practitioners in the legal profession, the structural problems fuelling it and sets out a range of proposals the Nigerian Bar Association should […]
Paul Usoro is one of Nigeria’s leading lawyers, with industry-leading expertise in commercial and telecommunications law. In the second of a series of articles, he tackles the issue of welfare for young practitioners in the legal profession, the structural problems fuelling it and sets out a range of proposals the Nigerian Bar Association should consider in […]
Paul Usoro is one of Nigeria’s leading lawyers, with industry-leading expertise in commercial and telecommunications law. In the first of a series of articles, he tackles the issue of welfare for young practitioners in the legal profession, the structural problems fuelling it and sets out a range of proposals the Nigerian Bar Association should consider […]
A lot has been said and written recently about Paul Usoro as The Man, The Lawyer, The Candidate. Some have however called for reflections from a time more distant into the past. I am in a position to offer this; so I will start with a glimpse of Paul from earlier days and from my […]
The Nigerian Bar as an Entity is in need of a leader who knows the purpose of being an instrument of change and influence. A man who understands that philanthropy and service go hand in hand, a man who knows that as much as the rule of law seeks to engender order and compliance in […]
Paul Usoro is one of Nigeria’s leading lawyers, with industry-leading expertise in commercial and telecommunications law. The following is an excerpt from a lecture in Kano to commemorate the NBA Kano Branch 2018 Law Week. It is titled “Good Governance, Corruption and Economic Development: Nigeria’s Experience and the Journey So Far.” Excerpts from Mr Usoro’s […]
Members of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA; National Conscience Party, NCP; Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, and Joint Action Committee, JAC, in apparent disapproval of the 2018 Land Use Charge Law in Lagos state, stormed the Lagos House in Alausa, Ikeja, on Tuesday to protest against the hike in levies charged by […]
Last Saturday, the Eastern Bar Forum (the EBF) held its quarterly meeting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. Amongst other things, it resolved to reject the proposed amendment of the Constitution for the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and subsequently issued directives to all branches of the NBA in the East to withdraw any memoranda they must have […]
Professor Chidi Anselm Odinkalu rudely woke the legal community Thursday morning, with a vitriol diatribe against Mr Paul Usoro, SAN in what has to be considered as an unfair and unwarranted onslaught against his person. READ: NBA election passions heat up as Odinkalu revives debunked Usoro allegations While Odinkalu is within his right as a concerned […]
The race for the presidency of the Nigerian Bar Association looks set to take a nasty turn as Senior Managing Legal Officer for the Africa Program at the Open Society Justice Initiative and former chairman of the Governing Council of the National Human Rights Commission, Professor Chidi Odinkalu alleged that leading commercial lawyer and Senior […]
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has stressed the need for capacity building and regular updating for its members, especially the young lawyers practicing in Rivers State. Speaking at the formal opening ceremony of the NBA branch in Okehi, Eche Local Government Area of Rivers State, Mr. Felix Amadi, the branch NBA chairman, emphasised the importance […]
Chief Olisa Agbakoba, a Senior Advocate and former President, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in this interview with PETER FOWOYO, took a swipe at the members of the National Assembly for the outrageous salaries being paid to the lawmakers by the Revenue Fiscal and Mobilization Committee and quickly call on the President-elect to revert same without […]
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, on Wednesday, said the prevalence of fake lawyers in the country was adversely eroding the integrity of the legal profession. He also said fake lawyers were casting a shadow of disrepute upon legal practitioners. Mohammed, who said this in an address he delivered at […]
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Warri branch, on Thursday dragged President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to a Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, over alleged attempts to stop the use of Card Readers for the general elections scheduled for the 28th of March and April 11th, 2015. Also joined in […]