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Assault: NBA officers push for CCT chairman’s prosecution in fresh petition The NBA leaders say the CCT chair’s conduct sparked a social media frenzy "that brought the legal profession into public odium, ridicule and disrespect." 4 min read Two national officers of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) have petitioned the Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) over the recent assault visited on a security guard at an Abuja plaza by the chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar. The LPDC is the body established by law to handle disciplinary cases inv...

Spread the love (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I would never have believed that a day would come when a Nigerian judge would engage in street fighting no matter the level of provocation. It was for this reason that I initially thought the video showing a suit-wearing fellow, referred to as a certain powerful judge kicking and slapping a security guard at the Banex Plaza, Abuja last week, was a Nollywood video. But when it was later confirmed that the kick-boxer was actually a serving judge, identified as Justice Danladi Umar, Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, I was shocked. When the Head of P...

Assault: Groups, activists demand prosecution, removal of CCT chairman The various groups intensified their demand for the prosecution and removal of the CCT chairman for assaulting a security guard in Abuja on March 29. 4 min read Demand by activists and civil society groups for an independent probe, prosecution, and removal of the chairman, Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, for assault, intensified on Tuesday. PREMIUM TIMES had reported how Mr Umar was caught on camera physically assaulting a security guard, Clement Sargwak, at Banex Plaza, Wuse 2, Abuja, on Marc...

Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB leader We woke up last Monday to hear that "unknown gunmen" in a guerrilla style operation, had attacked the Imo State Police Command Headquarters and the Owerri Correctional Prison, raized scores of vehicles there, and freed detained inmates in their various facilities numbering about 1,800. We were thrown aback, overawed, surprised, and dumb-founded at such an horrific incident. Who did it, and for what purpose? We had hardly done with our question when, in a supersonic manner, the just sacked Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, jumped to the conclusion that those...

A judge who fights in public cannot earn any respect, writes Sonnie Ekwowusi Last week the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Danladi Umar was found fighting in public. Umar threw decency to the wind and engaged a security guard in an open street brawl at the Banex Plaza, Wuse, Abuja, to the astonishment of the bemused onlookers who could be heard admonishing Umar, “Go away, go away, oga go inside your car, respect yourself, You are not the most powerful person here, they will beat you here”. The video which captured the fight is still making the rounds. Umar fought the ...