The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Nnewi Branch, marked a significant milestone as it celebrated its 25th Annual Law Week with the theme “Facing the Future.” The bar week drew commendations and goodwill messages from prominent legal minds across the country, underscoring its importance in fostering discourse on the evolution of legal practice in Nigeria.
In a goodwill message, Lateef Omoyemi Akangbe, SAN, FCIArb (UK), former Chairman of the NBA Lagos Branch, praised the Nnewi Branch for its commitment to progress and capacity building within the legal profession. He emphasized the urgency for lawyers to embrace digital transformation, warning that reliance on outdated methods could render practitioners obsolete in the fast-evolving legal landscape.
Read full statement below;
I extend warm felicitations to the Executive Committee, the Planning Committee, and the entire membership of the Nigerian Bar Association, Nnewi Branch, on the occasion of your 25th Annual Law Week, themed “Facing the Future.”
This theme speaks to a defining urgency. The future does not wait for the unprepared. As legal practitioners, we must reimagine practice beyond the analogue age. The digital revolution is not optional—it is existential. Anyone clinging to outdated methods risks extinction in tomorrow’s legal order.
Let us remember: the future is shaped by the choices we make today. Your sacrifice, your dialogue, your planning—these are the seeds that will define the Bar of the future.
I salute your vision.
Congratulations on this landmark event.
Lateef Omoyemi Akangbe, SAN FCIArb (UK)
Former Chairman, NBA Lagos Branch
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