It also requests the LRA to delegate to the LNBA its authority to issue a professional license to lawyers and to enable the LNBA to prevent non-lawyers from paying license fees and ensure that only lawyers in good standing with the LNBA are eligible to pay professional license fees to the LRA. “They just come and say they are lawyers, after paying professional license fees of US$100. Nah said, the proposal was in the right direction for the LRA to collect the license fees and the LNBA issued the license to qualified lawyers. According to the document, the LNBA shall furnish the LRA, frequently and periodically, with a listing of lawyers who have been issued their licenses. Meanwhile, the LRA shall issue a tax identification numbers to lawyers desirous to pay for a professional license.

Source: Daily Observer November 27, 2019 03:22 UTC