Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo will be speaking at the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Annual General Conference.
The NBA 62nd Annual General Conference with the theme: “Bold Transitions” will be holding from 19th to 26th August, 2022 at the Eko Atlantic City, Victoria Island, Lagos.
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 NBA for the first time in its history has invited the presidential candidates of the major political parties to speak on “Democratic Transitions in 21st Century Nigeria: 2023 and Beyond”. The session, which comes after the conference opening ceremony, will afford participants a rare opportunity to interact with the presidential candidates.
Part of the letter, captioned, ‘INVITATION TO THE 2022 ANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION’, and signed by Tobenna Erojikwe, Chairman, Technical Committee on Conference Planning, reads: “On behalf of the National Executive Council and members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), I write to formally invite you, as a guest, to the 62nd Edition of the Annual General Conference of the NBA, scheduled to hold from 19th to 26th August 2022 in Lagos State.
“The NBA Conference is the leading event of the NBA and a main feature of the annual calendar of the Nigerian legal profession.
“It 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 individuals from different sectors, technocrats as well as political leaders from within and outside Nigeria.
“The theme for this year’s Conference is ‘Bold Transitions’. The core objective of the 2022 NBA Conference will be to host a world-class conference, with an in-depth discourse on critical issues affecting the legal profession and the country in general, facilitated by the most eminently qualified resource persons.”
The letter added, “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 and expressions of technology and the historic coronavirus pandemic.
Prince Adebayo, the SDP presidential candidate is a successful international lawyer and businessman with interest in pharmaceutical, media, agriculture, green energy.
