{"id":92481,"date":"2026-08-01T08:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92481"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:01:35","slug":"breaking-cjn-bans-nigerian-lawyers-from-using-barrister-title-explains-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/01\/breaking-cjn-bans-nigerian-lawyers-from-using-barrister-title-explains-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: CJN bans Nigerian lawyers from using &#8216;Barrister&#8217; title, explains why"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lindaikejisblog.com\/photos\/shares\/edddsss_1785526598.webp\" alt=\"CJN bars Nigerian lawyers from using \u00e2\u0080\u0098Barrister\u00e2\u0080\u0099 title\" width=\"668\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has ordered lawyers and court officials to stop using the title \u201cBarrister\u201d before their names in all official dealings with the S<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legit.ng\/tags\/supreme-court-nigeria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">upreme Cour<\/a>t,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-xl\/africa\/nigeria\/breaking-cjn-bans-nigerian-lawyers-from-using-barrister-title-explains-why\/ar-AA29be9d\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has ordered lawyers and court officials to stop using the title \u201cBarrister\u201d before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CJ-Kekere-Ekun.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92483,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92481\/revisions\/92483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}