The Nigerian Bar Association is just like the Nigerian Medical Association and Nigerian Society of Engineers . By making it compulsory to every lawyer to join they have violated the Nigerian constitution which speaks about freedom of association . to practise as an engineer you need Coren certificate license, stamp and seal as a doctor you need a license from the Nigerian medical and dental council . Over the years alot of lawyers have challenged the legality of the seal issued by NBA because they are not the regulatory body for law in Nigeria they are just an association we need to start asking questions why will government give its power to regulate to an association. The seal should be handled by the regulatory body not by the association as it is in Coren and Nigerian medical and dental council associations can only make suggestion to the regulatory body the final decision comes from the body.

GeneralMarshall:


The motive is to enable the new northern bar members to operate and file cases in court, without the NBA seal. That seal is the barrier that the splinter grout need to overcome.

exactly

The case of NBA is like that of the little bird nza that after a heavy meal called his god out for a wrestling match.

Your rights stop where the rights of another start.

festacman:
Young lawyers came together and elected Mr Olumide Akpata as NBA president. In doing this, they pushed SANs off the track into the bush. It is only foolery to think the SANs won't fight back. This new amendment is geared towards cutting the money available to NBA to operate powerfully.

Obviously you know nothing.

GeneralMarshall:


The motive is to enable the new northern bar members to operate and file cases in court, without the NBA seal. That seal is the barrier that the splinter grout need to overcome.

Prior to this time, can a Lawyer who is not fully registered with NBA without Stamp and Seal operate in Courts? Can a Lawyer who is not a bonafide member of NBA votes or be voted in NBA election?

The fact that an Attorney General unilaterally introduced it means it can also be unilaterally cancelled. During the last NBA election, there were voters who are not bonafide members of NBA but allowed to vote. These groups of voters have no NBA Stamp and Seal but allowed to vote, then, there is no need again for any NBA Stamp and Seal.

simpleseyi:


So, Akpata is saying nonsense because it means the Seal was illegal in the first instance. In Law, you cannot build nothing on top of nothing. The Seal was standing on top of nothing, so it has been pulled down.

. If you are living in a glass house don't throw stones because tomorrow another person will throw stones at your house

Take it to the World Court at the Hague since you people don't know what to do. Meanwhile the cracks in our fragile uniy keeps widening.

Iamdemola:
Earlier thread:

https://www.nairaland.com/6115916/sans-divided-malami-weakens-nba



https://punchng.com/malami-lacks-unilateral-power-to-amend-lawyers-professional-conduct-akpata/

One sad thing about this country called Nigeria is that the northern agenda is superior to the collective national interest.
They create all manner of rubbish and force it on others to accept. Northern agenda created unbalaced states/LGA etc.

Now the want to weaken NBA because they are not in forefront to her leadership.

Imagine .......

I won’t be surprised if the NBA is scrapped under this regime

CilicMarin:
The question should be: Who introduced the NBA Seal as a requirement for filling cases in the Courts?

Was the approval of the General Council Of The Bar Sought Before the introduction in 2007?

A law is a law not because it is good, but because there is right in it

festacman:
Young lawyers came together and elected Mr Olumide Akpata as NBA president. In doing this, they pushed SANs off the track into the bush. It is only foolery to think the SANs won't fight back. This new amendment is geared towards cutting the money available to NBA to operate powerfully.

Was it not an election? So when a group or certain grade of people in a body lose an election then they should fight back? Tf...smh

festacman:
Young lawyers came together and elected Mr Olumide Akpata as NBA president. In doing this, they pushed SANs off the track into the bush. It is only foolery to think the SANs won't fight back. This new amendment is geared towards cutting the money available to NBA to operate powerfully.

You sound like a Democrat. Illegality and corrupt status quo is what you stand for.

emecheboy2:

You sound like a Democrat. Illegality and corrupt status quo is what you stand for.

"Judge not!" says the Holy Book.

dopesidez:

Was it not an election? So when a group or certain grade of people in a body lose an election then they should fight back? Tf...smh

In politics like in war, all is fair.

Racoon:

"Laws become fragile under the influence of dictators."-Wayne Gerard Trotman.AGF Malami is always supporting illegalities.The man is the worst & most corrupt AG the nation has ever had.

Joke of a country. The same AGF that claimed the 7th Senate forged its own rules in the conduct of the election that brought in Saraki and other principal officers of the Senate!!

The contest for the worst AGF in the history of Nigeria is between Malami and Micheal AaondoaKaa. Both men are shameless.

Racoon:

"Laws become fragile under the influence of dictators."-Wayne Gerard Trotman.AGF Malami is always supporting illegalities.The man is the worst & most corrupt AG the nation has ever had.

ignis:
Under this Buhari military government disguised as democracy, everything is possible.

We experienced the 4th candidate in a governorship election appointed as the governor by the cabals in judiciary.

Abi oh

The 2007 amendment followed due process as same was duly approved by the General Council of the Bar.


This is not the case with this 2020 purported amendment.

SLAP44:


By the time this set of wanderers who seized power with lies are through with Nigeria, those who screamed "change" will be living in Niger Republic as refugees.

You gat the gist wella!

Now Saraki, Atiku are permanent residents in Dubai while Obj is restricted to Otta.

Others are on the line.

executive12:
Malami, the quota system AGF at it again. Sometimes I wonder how Malami got through the Law School, and became a SAN.

Funny you. Even the CJN is more of a Chief Imam than a barrister.

festacman:
Young lawyers came together and elected Mr Olumide Akpata as NBA president. In doing this, they pushed SANs off the track into the bush. It is only foolery to think the SANs won't fight back. This new amendment is geared towards cutting the money available to NBA to operate powerfully.

Democracy is a game of numbers not status.