ECOWAS court, NICN urged to quash LPPC suspension of Ozekhome’s SAN rank

The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, and the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, NICN, person been asked to quash the suspension of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, fertile of a law lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Commission, LPPC.

The determination to suspend Ozekhome’s SAN fertile was taken astatine the 173rd wide gathering of the LPPC, held connected June 23, 2026.

The LPPC, successful a connection signed by its Secretary and Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Kabir Akanbi, said the determination was taken successful bid to safeguard the integrity, dignity and prestige of the SAN rank. The connection added that the enactment was taken successful enactment with Paragraph 26(6) of the Guidelines for the Conferment of the Rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria and each Matters Pertaining to the Rank, pending the last determination of disciplinary proceedings presently earlier the Disciplinary and Ethics Sub-Committee of the LPPC.

However, an relation of Nigerian lawyers, the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, which had earlier asked the LPPC to wi...