Admin l Thursday, May 24, 2017
LAGOS, Nigerian – The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC has barred Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB) lawyer, Emeka Ephraim Ngwuonye from practicing his profession in Nigeria.
His offence is not clear ar the moment. But the lawyer was also stopped from practising law in New York and Maryland for professional misconduct in 2013 before he relocated to Nigeria.
Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria on the 23rd of May ordered that his name be removed from lawyers registered to practice in Nigeria.
Emeka Ephraim Ngwuonye was alleged to have failed to disclose his personal interest in the property of a widow wherein he acted as an Administration.
In 2016, he had been listed among others facing disciplinary action before the LPDC over fraudulent activities. The list was published as an advertorial signed by LDPC Secretary H.A. Turaki
J.S. Okutepa (SAN), the Chief Prosecutor of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) at the LPDC is said to have found Ugwuonye liable for fraud and promised to give details of the direction of LPDC in due course. Emeka Ephraim Ugwuonye has 28 days to appeal the ruling of the LPDC.
