A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) to approve the registration of Nigerian Law Society (NLS), a new professional body of lawyers. NLS is a rival association to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) which has existed as the sole law association since 1933. The plaintiffs in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/482/2023 contended that they had submitted two separate applications to the CAC for registration as an incorporated trustee but the commission refused to approve any of the names proposed. According to them, the CAC claimed…
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