Bar and Bench Watch ICON: JUSTICE MAHMUD MOHAMMED, GCON
For serving on the bench for 32 straight years without scandal; for his humility, transparency, hard-work, courage and candour on issues; for his powerful reasoning in countless cases and invaluable contributions to the development of jurisprudence in Nigeria; for deploying the instrumentality of the law to save the nation’s democracy before, during More...
Bar and Bench Watch ICON: MIKE ABU AGBEDOR OZEKHOME, SAN
For wrestling poverty to submission with uncommon determination and zealous hard-work; for being in the trenches at the risk of his dear life during fight against military rule in Nigeria for the sake of the ‘conquered’ More...
Bar and Bench Watch ICON: AWA UMA KALU, SAN, FNIALS
For his awesome brilliance, uncommon versatility, phenomenal understanding of the law and sparkling performances during his school days; for his profound contributions to legal education and scholarship through More...
Bar and Bench Watch ICON: OLUWOLE OLADAPO OLANIPEKUN, SAN
For rising from his humble setting without the proverbial golden spoon to become a legal luminary of international repute and for deployment of his deep understanding of the law to handle complex legal issues of More...
Bar and Bench Watch ICON: JUSTICE MARIAM ALOMA MUKHTAR, GCON
For being a woman of many firsts: first female lawyer from Northern Nigeria, first female judge of the High Court in Kano State judiciary, first female justice of the Court of Appeal of Nigeria, first female justice More...
Bar and Bench Watch ICON: JUSTICE MUHAMMADU LAWAL UWAIS, GCON
For his courage, exceptional literary writing style with unimaginable depth and breath of reasoning; for his thoroughness and forthrightness at the upper bench, thereby symbolising judicial excellence; and for his More...
Bar and Bench Watch ICON: EMMANUEL AFE BABALOLA, SAN
For being a legal luminary of repute, locally and internationally and for lighting a candle in the darkness of humanity to drive back enervating ignorance and liberate minds from the shackles of lack and superstition; More...
