Gowon A female legal practitioner, Ms Stella Oyiogu, has been dragged before the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) over alleged willful misconduct. Nigeria’s leading statesmen, including General Yakubu Gowon, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad Abubakar III, and the Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Barkindo Aliyu Mustafa, dragged the lawyer before the disciplinary committee. Already, Oyiogu…
A police inspector has been arrested alongside three others in connection with the murder of Barrister Chinedu Nwowu in Imo State. The officer, identified as Augustine Odidika, was taken into custody last Thursday, a day after Nwowu was killed in Mgbidi Town. Reports indicate that the lawyer had previously petitioned the police over threats to…
The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Barrister Benjamin Chukwuemeka Nwobodo before Justice F. O. Giwa-Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court sitting in Independence Layout, Enugu State on a five-count charge bordering on forgery and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N12m Count three of…
The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) has condemned the murder of its member, Mr Chinedu Nwowu, by unknown assailants. Barrister Nwowu was murdered in cold blood on Wednesday evening, in Mgbidi, Imo State. Meanwhile, courts in Mgbidi, Oguta, and Omumma areas of Imo State were closed on Thursday following the tragic killing. Nwowu was shot while…
