As the countdown to the 2023 Annual Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association’s Section on Legal Practice (NBA-SLP) enters its homestretch, the Conference Planning Committee has reeled out a distingushed faculty of panelists and resource persons who would be sharing the benefit of their expertise, experience and insights with conferees.
Among the expected panelists are active Bar leaders who have, over the years, shown exemplary commitment to the ideals and mandate of the NBA and the good of its members. One of them is Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN . A former national general secretary of the Association, and former chairman of the NBA Abuja Branch, he currently serves as the chair of the Conference Planning Committee of the 2023 Annual General Conference (also to be held in Abuja in late August). A graduate of law from the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, and was called to the Bar in 1999. He also holds two Master of Laws degrees, from the University of Jos, and from Lazarsky University in Poland, as well as a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from Keble College, Oxford, in the United Kingdom. The learned silk is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK). After a short stint with the Abuja-based law firm of Chike Chigbue and Co., Osigwe founded THE LAW FORTE (a firm of legal practitioners, corporate consultants and notary publics) in 2002. A Notary Public of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Osigwe has displayed special intellectual and professional dexterity in the areas of banking, telecommunications, commercial and financial practice, litigation and services, and has also appeared as counsel or arbitrator in many arbitral proceedings and commercial disputes. He is a member of many legal, professional and business associations.
Chukwuka Ikwuazom, SAN is also billed to offer his perspectives at the Abuja confab. Known throughout the Nigerian legal ecosystem as the dynamic former chairman of the NBA Lagos Bar, Chukwuka Ikwuazom is a Partner at the law firm of Aluko & Oyebode, where he heads the taxation practice, in addition to being a key member in the firm’s litigation and arbitration practice. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, and a Master of Laws degree from the Columbia University School of Law in New York, USA. His sector specializations lie in the areas of banking, energy, oil and gas, technology, telecoms and transport. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, among other professional associations.
The current chairman of the NBA’s Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE), Tobenna Erojikwe is also billed to offer his thoughts at the SLP Conference. A law graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Erojikwe holds an LLM in corporate finance law from the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom. A partner at The Law Crest LLP, where he leads its finance and energy practice group, Tobenna (as he’s universally known) is admitted to practise law in Nigeria, England and Wales, and boasts some practice experience in both jurisdictions. His core areas of practice are energy and natural resources; corporate finance; project finance; public-private partnerships; and mergers and acquisitions.
Other lumiraries expected to grace the Abuja SLP Conference are Mrs. Funke Adekoya, SAN; Mrs. Boma Alabi, CON, SAN; Prof. Ernest Ojukwu, SAN; Prof. Wahab Egbewole, SAN, and Mr. Tonye Krukrubo, SAN, along with many others.
The Conference, to hold at the NBA National Secretariat in the federal capital from July 16 through July 19, 2923, will be examining the topic: Legal Practice Without Borders.
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