CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE – CITY LAWYER MAGAZINE

EMEKA NWADIOKE
Oct 25, 2022
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FOI COUNSEL HAILS NEW ZAMBIA DPP

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FOI COUNSEL FELICITATES WITH NEWLY APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTION OF ZAMBIA

18th October 2022

GILBERT ANDFORD PHIRI, ESQ
Director of Public Prosecution
Federal Ministry of Justice,
Fairley Road, Lusaka,
Republic of Zambia

My dear friend,

LETTER OF FELICITATION
The above subject matter refers.

I am delighted to hear of your appointment as the Director of Public Prosecution of the Republic of Zambia.

I know you as a discipline, strategic and proactive public interest lawyer and now a senior public officer. I confirm you have whatever positive endowments the institutions of Africa desire of its men. My sincere wish is that this message motivates you to reinvigorate the architecture of criminal investigation and prosecution as it arises in Zambia and position it for a crime free one.

Similarly, I hope you will use this new office to support the enforcement/passage of digital rights and open government legislations (particularly access to information law) in the country. This has a soft influence on criminal investigation and litigation and it can also deter young persons from crimes owing to the avalanche opportunities in these laws.

As you await the ratification of the National Assembly, I wish you the best of tenure as I cannot wait to see your contribution to the government of Zambia under the leadership of President Hakainde Hichilema

Yours faithfully,

President Aigbokhan, LL.B, LLM (AAU), BL, ACI. Arb
Lead
FOI COUNSEL

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EMEKA NWADIOKE
Oct 02, 2022
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MAIKYAU TO NEW SANS: ‘YOU MUST BE ABOVE BOARD’

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Congratulatory message to the 62 successful applicants for the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigerian (SAN), 2022, by the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)

It is my pleasure to congratulate the 62 successful applicants for the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, many of whom I know personally and I have interacted with professionally.

Surely, to attain the lofty rank of SAN is a culmination of years of ambition, passion and sacrifice, and the elation and fanfare that follows the announcement and investiture makes the hard-work worthwhile. What is even more gratifying is the sheer privilege the rank affords the bearer. It is for the sake of such privilege that a bearer, rather than be complacent, must redouble efforts as practitioner and academician, to live up to the high expectation of our professional colleagues and indeed the country.

You must upon your investiture, wear your rank with decorum, dignity and character. You must be above board in all that you do as advocates and as individuals as you become a standard through which our profession is measured. You must never forget this.

Once again I congratulate you and members of your family, many of whom went on this professional journeys with you, on this remarkable attainment and I look forward to working with each of you in the overall interest of the Bar. I look forward to welcoming you to the Inner-Bar.

Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, SAN

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EMEKA NWADIOKE
Sep 08, 2022
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ETI-OSA LAWYERS FORUM HAILS MAIKYAU, SEEKS BRANCH STATUS

The Eti-Osa Lawyers Forum (ELF) has congratulated Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Mr. Yakubu Maikyau SAN and other National Officers on their inauguration as the NBA National Executive Committee.

In a congratulatory letter made available to CITY LAWYER and signed by ELF Chairman, Mr. M. M. A. Sanni, the Forum stated that the newly sworn-in NBA President came “at an auspicious time in our association and the nation,” adding that it is “A time when a man of your figure and character is needed to consolidate the achievements of your predecessor, as well as grapple with the usual issues around the unity of our Association and the country.

“After listening to your inaugural speech, especially the moving story of your childhood and all difficulties you have to surmount to become a lawyer and subsequently a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, we are convinced that our Association is in the right hands.”

Noting that the Forum has a pending application to become a full-fledged NBA Branch, the Forum said: “We cannot end this message without a reminder to you of our pending application to become a branch, and given the fact that the final condition precedent towards the grant of the status has now been duly fulfilled with the creation of Eti-osa Judicial Division from the existing Lagos Judicial Division. We sincerely hope that our branch, NBA Eti-osa Branch, will now be added to the list of other branches of the Nigerian Bar Association timeously.”

Below is the full text of the statement.

* Mr. M. M. A. SANNI, Chairman, Eti-Osa Lawyers Forum

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EMEKA NWADIOKE
Aug 29, 2022
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TINUBU CONGRATULATES MAIKYAU ON HIS ELECTION

The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential flagbearer in the 2023 national elections, Senator Bola Tinubu has congratulated Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Mr. Yakubu Maikyau SAN on his election.

In a statement by the Tinubu Media Office titled “CONGRATULATORY STATEMENT TO YAKUBU CHONOKO MAIKYAU, SAN ON HIS ELECTION AS PRESIDENT OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION,” Tinubu said: “I congratulate Y.C. Maikyau, SAN on his emergence as the 31st President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), following the term expiration of the administration of Olumide Akpata.”

He said: “I, once more, commend and congratulate Y.C. Maikyau and the new executive leadership of the NBA. Their character and reputation have led to this moment of triumph and the absolute trust of their learned peers. I urge them all to maintain a commitment to the values I have espoused above and to the task of carrying the legal profession onto ever greater heights over the course of the next two years.”

The full statement is below:

PRESS STATEMENT

CONGRATULATORY STATEMENT TO YAKUBU CHONOKO MAIKYAU, SAN ON HIS ELECTION AS PRESIDENT OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION

I congratulate Y.C. Maikyau, SAN on his emergence as the 31st President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), following the term expiration of the administration of Olumide Akpata.

The commendations and peer endorsements that informed his election and have since trailed his official swearing-in, underscore Maikyau’s professional success as a legal practitioner and his suitability for the elevated position with which he has been entrusted. Such testimonials inspire absolute confidence in his capacity to fulfil his pledge to take the NBA towards its brightest future.

The Bar is an important institution, central to the growth and sustenance of Nigeria’s democracy, justice and the rule of law. It’s members are the sworn defenders of our entire system of justice; the edifice undergirding our development, government accountability and respect for fundamental human rights. No nation can survive for long in the absence of these essential values or, therefore, without a well-functioning and organised legal profession.

I, once more, commend and congratulate Y.C. Maikyau and the new executive leadership of the NBA. Their character and reputation have led to this moment of triumph and the absolute trust of their learned peers. I urge them all to maintain a commitment to the values I have espoused above and to the task of carrying the legal profession onto ever greater heights over the course of the next two years.

I wish the new NBA administration the very best in all its future endeavours and pray, earnestly, that under their stewardship, the ideal of the legal profession as the last best hope of the common man remains true and alive in our nation.

SIGNED

Tinubu Media Office
August 29, 2022.

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EMEKA NWADIOKE
Jul 17, 2022
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‘MY APPRECIATION AND CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE,’ BY EDE ASENOGUAN

The 2022 national election of the Nigerian Bar Association has come and gone and a new leadership that will pilot the affairs of our great Association for the next two years has been elected. We had offered ourself for service to the Bar in the capacity of General Secretary in the said election which offer was not accepted by majority of the votes of our members. We accept the decision and wish to congratulate all those that emerged as the choice of the majority of our members.

I want to give special gratitude to God Almighty for the grace, privilege and enablement to have participated in the process. It was indeed a daunting, tedious and time sapping venture. However, I must say that it was also a very worthwhile experience for me. It saw me meeting and making new friends and building networks of unquantifiable value both personally and professionally. I therefore have no regrets whatsoever in having been part of the process.

I congratulate very heartily all the newly elected national officers led by the President elect Mr Y.C Maikyau SAN, and especially my good friend and brother Adesina Adegbite the General Secretary elect against whom I ran. I wish you well my brother and do believe that you will deliver on your mandate and take our Secretariat to the next level in positive and progressive terms. Indeed the Bar is the ultimate winner.

I congratulate the Olu Akpata led administration for delivering a seamless transition process and for the enormous achievements the administration has recorded.

As your tenure gradually winds down, it is my sincere wish that the new and incoming leadership consolidates on the outstanding milestones that your administration has achieved and laid.

To my teeming supporters and friends nationwide too numerous to mention here for purposes of brevity, I wish to thank you all so immensely for not only believing in me but for the courage to stand by me through the entire process against all odds. You guys are the real champions.

Your support for me, no doubt, was the booster or tonic that energized us to achieve all that we achieved.

I appreciate you all and want to encourage you that though we didn’t emerge winner, we didn’t loose. Loosing is in not having the courage to dare, We dared!

I therefore want to urge you not to be downcast or sad, but to hold your head up high knowing that we did our best in offering our time and making sacrifices in the service to the Bar.

To those, who I or any of my supporters may have offended in the course of the campaigns, I take absolute responsibility and apologise for same.

They were not deliberate or intended. Please forgive us even as we forgive those who we also perceive may have offended, betrayed or disappointed us.
I thank you all so very much for the love and friendship shown me. Be rest assured that i do not take it lightly. Bigger and better days ahead.

God bless you all.

Osamuede Asenoguan

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EMEKA NWADIOKE
May 18, 2022
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MAXIMUS UGWUOKE CONGRATULATES AKPATA ON NUPTIALS

Maximus Ugwuoke Congratulates Olumide Akpata, the President of NBA on his wedding.

Mr. Ikechukwu Maximus Ugwuoke, aspirant for National Welfare Secretary position of NBA and former social Secretary of NBA Enugu Branch has sent a congratulatory message to the the president of the NBA.

In his message Ugwuoke said: ” I join the legal community and the rest of the world to Congratulate you, our dear President, Olumide Akpata on the occasion of your traditional wedding with the love of your life, Osayamon Michelle Ogbebor at the ancient city of Benin today, 14th day of May 2022.

As the Holy Book says “He that findeth a wife, findeth a good thing and obtains favour from the Lord”. This singular event of your marriage taking place towards the end of your NBA presidency tenure is a demonstration of the the fact that God’s favour that made you the number one bar man in the country had continued to sustain you to attain the greater strides and accomplishment you have so far recorded in your office, the climax of which is your tying the marital knots at this point.

May God bless your marriage and continue to sustain it with love, peace, joy and happiness”.

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