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Nigerian Bar Association
TypeProfessional Association
PurposePromote legal professionalism
Location
  • Federal Capital Territory, Abuja
Official language
English
President
Y.C Maikyau, SAN
General Secretary
Adesina Adegbite
Websitewww.nigerianbar.org.ng
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The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is a non-profit, umbrella professional association of lawyers admitted to the Bar by Counsil of Legal Education in Nigeria. It is engaged in the promotion and protection of human rights, the rule of law and good governance in Nigeria.[1] The NBA has an observer status with the African Commission on Human and People's Rights, and a working partnership with many national and international non-governmental organizations concerned with similar goals in Nigeria and in Africa.[2]

The NBA is made up of 125 branches, three professional sections, two specialized institutes, six practice-cadre forums, and high-level leverage in the political society in Nigeria.

Its National Secretariat is managed from Abuja. Its organizational structure comprises a National Executive Committee, a National Officers/Management Board, sections, forums, committees, working groups and a National Secretariat with a manpower strengthening of 34 staff as at June 2010.

The current president of the Nigerian Bar Association is Yakubu Maikyau. and the current General Secretary is Adesina Adegbite.[3]

  1. ^ "Nigerian Bar Association". Namati. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  2. ^ "About NBA". Nigerian Bar Association. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
  3. ^ ahuchaoguizu (8 August 2020). "NBA General Secretary Elect Joyce Oduah(FICMC), Visits NBA First Female General Secretary". Nigeria News Today | True Tells Nigeria. Archived from the original on 15 January 2021. Retrieved 2 September 2020.

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