The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) has sactioned four legal practitioners; Abikoye Opeyemi Timothy, Jonathan Chinedu Nwagwu, Edward Osaghale and Cyprian Obiora Ifeanyi Agwuna who were found guilty of various professional misconducts.<\/p>\n
By notices issued under on 13 August, 2024, the Committee, announced the\u00a0 sanctions against each of the four lawyers as follows:<\/p>\n
Jonathan Chinedu Nwagwu<\/strong> with Enrolment No. SCN052392<\/strong>, was suspended for three years and ordered to refund \u20a61,947,043.70 (One Million, Nine Hundred and Forty-Seven Thousand, Forty-Three Naira, Seventy Kobo) and an additional \u20a6500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira) to the applicant within 28 days of the directive.<\/p>\n The order followed the resolution of a case against him on April 24, 2024<\/p>\n Edward Oseghale <\/strong>with <\/strong>Enrolment No. SCN073464<\/strong>, <\/strong>was suspended for two years from legal practice following the resolution of a case against him on May 8, 2023<\/p>\n Cyprian Obiora Ifeanyi Agwuna<\/strong> with Enrolment No. SCN005675 was suspended from Legal Practice for two years following the determination of a case against him on\u00a0February 20, 2024<\/p>\n Abikoye Opeyemi Timothy with<\/strong>\u00a0Enrolment No. <\/strong>SCN034372<\/strong> had his name struck off the Roll of Legal Practitioners; Abikoye was in addition ordered to refund N2, 359, 000 to the Petitioner.<\/p>\n A legal notice was issued to key judicial and legal authorities, including the Chief Justice of Nigeria, the President of the\u00a0Court of Appeal, the Honourable\u00a0Attorney-General\u00a0of the Federation, and the Chief Judges of the Federal High Court,\u00a0National Industrial Court, and\u00a0High Court\u00a0of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.<\/p>\n The notice also extended to the\u00a0Grand Khadis of the Sharia Court of Appeal\u00a0and the Presidents of\u00a0Customary Courts of Appeal\u00a0of both the Federal Capital Territory and the states of the Federation.<\/p>\n The Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court has been directed to enforce the suspension of\u00a0Cyprian Obiora Ifeanyi Agwuna, prohibiting him from engaging in legal practice for a period of two years.<\/p>\n The directive was given on August 13, 2024, under the authority of Hon.\u00a0Justice Dr Ishaq Bello,\u00a0OFR, Chairman of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee.<\/p>\n Members of the legal profession were urged to take notice of these directions by the LPDC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) has sactioned four legal practitioners; Abikoye Opeyemi Timothy, Jonathan Chinedu Nwagwu, Edward Osaghale and Cyprian Obiora Ifeanyi Agwuna who were found guilty of various professional misconducts. By notices issued under on 13 August, 2024, the Committee, announced the\u00a0 sanctions against each of the four lawyers as follows: Jonathan Chinedu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":86056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-news","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t