Once again, Nigerian Lawyers will converge for their Annual General Conference (AGC). The AGC, which is the flagship event of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), will hold in Lagos from August 23-28, 2024. Over 16,000 Lawyers are already registered for the Conference and prepared to storm Lagos, the nation’s commercial capital.
The theme of this year’s AGC is “Pressing Forward: A National Posture for Rebuilding Nigeria”. Onikepo Braithwaite and Jude Igbanoi engaged the the Chairman of the Annual General Conference Planning Committee (AGCPC), Mrs Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya on their level of preparedness for the Conference, and what Nigerian Lawyers should look forward to at this year’s Conference, which she and her all female team have tagged ‘A Conference Like No Other!’ M adam AGCPC Chairperson, the 2024 Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference (NBA-AGC) which is scheduled to take place in Lagos from August 23 – 28, is themed “Pressing Forward: A National Posture for Rebuilding Nigeria”. This appears to be more or less the same theme as the 2023 NBA-AGC “Getting it Right, Charting the Course for Nigeria’s Nation Building”.
What informed such a similar choice? Is it that the outcome of the 2023 Conference didn’t have the desired effect, hence, the need to focus on it again? Should we not be more concerned about building and reforming our legal profession and the administration of justice sector instead? Thank you very much. This is an in.