Idris K. Thany, Esq., the immediate past Chairman of the NBA Ikorodu Branch, Lagos State has been suspended from law practice for two years.
In a direction delivered by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) on September 15, 2025, Idris Thany was suspended from legal practice for two years after being found guilty of infamous professional misconduct. His sister, Khadijah Abolanle Thany, Esq., was also found complicit in the scandal but escaped suspension after admitting she was misled, receiving only a formal admonition.
The case arose from a long-running Ikorodu land dispute in which the Elepe family secured a consent judgment in 2014. When the family moved to enforce the judgment, Idris Thany was accused of frustrating the process. In 2017, a motion seeking to set aside the judgment was filed, bearing the signature, seal, and stamp of his sister Khadijah. While Idris denied responsibility, claiming Khadijah acted independently, the Committee heard her explosive testimony that she had been deceived by her brother into signing a motion she did not prepare, for a client she had never met, and for which she was never paid. She revealed that Idris prepared the process himself, inserted his personal email address, and used her as a front to protect himself from contempt proceedings arising from his role in the case.
In its ruling, the LPDC condemned Idris’s conduct as despicable, selfish, and unbecoming of a legal practitioner. While the allegation that he mobilized thugs to block enforcement of the judgment was dismissed for lack of evidence, the Committee found that his manipulation of court processes was a blatant abuse of privilege and a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct. The panel reminded him that the legal profession is a humble and conservative calling, not a platform for arrogance or the pursuit of selfish ends. Khadijah, though guilty of breaching professional ethics, was spared a harsher sanction due to her candor in admitting the truth.
The Committee directed that Idris Thany’s suspension be noted against his name on the Roll of Legal Practitioners by the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, with notice to be published in the Federal Gazette and in The Punch newspaper. The order will also be communicated to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, heads of all superior courts, Attorneys-General across the country, and the Inspector General of Police.
