The Presidential Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo has been invited to speak in this year’s edition of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) annual conference.
According to the letter addressed to the Presidential hopeful as obtained by the Nigerianpost Newspaper, revealed that the NBA Conference is the leading event of the NBA and a main feature of the annual calendar of the Nigerian legal profession.
The conference presents legal practitioners in
Nigeria with a unique opportunity to interrogate issues affecting the profession and
society and to continue to seek innovative ways of advancing justice delivery and providing value-adding legal solutions to their clients and the environment within
which members of the Association operate.
“The NBA Conference is the largest gathering of business, political and thought leaders on the African continent and will congregate thought leaders in the areas of justice delivery, technology, the economy, politics, judicial reforms, and the rule of law.
This year’s Conference is anticipated to have approximately 13,000
delegates from the Bar and Bench in attendance. Also expected are business
persons from different sectors, technocrats as well as political leaders from within and outside Nigeria, the letter further read.
The theme for this year’s Conference is “Bold Transitions” and the core objective of
the 2022 NBA Conference will be to host a world class conference, with in-depth discourse on critical issues affecting the legal profession and the country in general, facilitated by the most eminently qualified resource persons.
Discussions at the Conference will focus on the need for the legal profession to engage boldly with global evolutionary trends and will comprise over 30 technical sessions where experts will lead conversations primarily aimed at envisioning the future of the legal
profession within the context of a rapidly transiting world and business environment, triggered in part, by the revolutionary exploits.
The conference which is the 62nd in it’s series is scheduled between 18th-26th August, 2022 to be held in Lagos State.