Blow for NBA as ex-President conferred with controversial Blue Silks rank

A erstwhile President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Chief Ebele Nwokoye, has been conferred with the arguable Blue Silks rank, which was introduced arsenic an alternate to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, rubric for non-litigation lawyers successful Nigeria.

The NBA had opposed the instauration of the Blue Silks fertile of Senior Counsel of Nigeria, describing the rubric arsenic illegal. The NBA, which confers the SAN rubric done its Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC, warned that Nigerian lawyers who instrumentality up the Blue Silks fertile hazard terrible sanctions.

The instauration of the Blue Silks is the taxable of a ineligible conflict betwixt the NBA and promoters of the rank, the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP.

The conferment of the fertile connected a erstwhile President of the NBA is seen arsenic a large improvement successful the emergence of the Blue Silks arsenic an alternate to the SAN title.

Nwokoye, who served arsenic NBA President from 1985 to 1987, was conferred with the Blue Silks fertile astatine an lawsuit on Tuesday in Abakiliki, Ebonyi State. He was besides conferred with the rubric of the National Patron of the Body of Senior Counsel of NIgeria, BOSCON.

BOSCON is the assemblage that is liable for appraisal and conferment of candidates who use for the Blue Silks rank.

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