Nigeria, April 16 -- The Rivers State Administrator, Ibok-Ete Ibas, has asked the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to immediately refund the N300 million the state government paid the association as "hosting rights" for the NBA 2025 Annual General Conference or face legal action.

"Failure of the NBA to immediately refund the N300 million to the Rivers State Government will compel the implementation of all legal means to recover the property of the good people of Rivers State," Mr Ibas' spokesperson, Hector Igbikiowubo, said in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday.

The NBA moved its 2025 annual conference earlier scheduled for Port Harcourt to Enugu in Enugu State in protest against the declaration of a state of emergency in the oi...