68 new SANs sworn in by CJN as Nigeria begins new legal year (Full list)

Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, Chief Justice of Nigeria has on Monday sworn in 68 legal practitioners as Senior Advocates of Nigeria at the 2026-2027 Legal Year ceremony. The swearing-in ceremony took place at the event marking the new legal year. Nigeria’s Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) had approved the elevation of the 68 legal practitioners at […]

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2026: The year before the election, By Abimbola Adelakun

In Nigeria, and in many countries with underdeveloped economies, the most important periods are the year right before a general election, the year of that election (when the winners emerge), and two years after that election (all the time the losers need to seethe over their losses as they await another opportunity). Elections are, of […]

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2023, our year of election, By Abimbola Adelakun

The ushering in of the new year has hastened the countdown for Nigeria as it hobbles towards the biggest event that ever happens in respective African countries: elections. In terms of the high expectations that precede it and even its ability to momentarily remind people fragmented of their shared identity, elections in Africa are equivalent […]

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