A Federal High Court in Abuja has approved the creation of another association for Nigerian lawyers different from the existing Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
Justice Gladys Olotu, in a judgment, ordered the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) to register any of the three names suggested by the promoters of the new association.
The names, put forward by those behind the new group, are: “The Nigerian Law Society,” “Nigerian Bar Society,” “Nigerian Lawyers’ Society” and “The Association of Legal Practitioners of Nigeria.”
Justice Olotu, in the judgment given on December 15, 2023, a copy of which The Nation saw on Monday, faulted the refusal of the CAC to register any of the names when they were earlier presented to it by those behind the new body.