KEYNOTE SPEAKER

GADZAMA IS KEYNOTE SPEAKER, MENTORS PREMIERE ACADEMY GRADUANDS

The President of Vox Populi Foundation, Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama SAN, was privileged to be invited as the Keynote Speaker at the 13th Graduation Ceremony of Premiere Academy at Lugbe, Abuja.

While delivering his speech on the theme, “Managing my Success”, Gadzama stated that he felt very honoured to have the rare privilege of not just lending his voice to the theme of this year’s graduation ceremony, but also sharing his personal success story with young minds and prospects beaming with life’s vigour.

Gadzama stated that beyond words, the theme, “Managing My Success” evokes a great deal of reflection on the life patterns, principles, relationships, strategies and focus needed to attain a certain level of success, maintain same and grow exponentially over some time.

He stated that in defining success, there are a few things an individual must know which he outlined as follows: The person one aspires to be? Feasible steps to take towards becoming that person?

Gadzama stated that to achieve and maintain success, one needs passion, hard work, determination, self-discipline, planning and faith in God. Further, he stated that one thing which kept him through his life’s journey was his resilience to never give up on the visions he had. Today, he is grateful to God that He has in his infinite mercy allowed him to attain his current level of success.

He stated that he would like to think that this stage of his career is synonymous with the icing on the cake and that managing success is more difficult than its attainment.

For him, the same virtues that are responsible for the attainment of success are the same virtues which help in the management of these successes. This is why he has continued to work relentlessly to maintain excellence in the legal profession.

He noted that other than the factors earlier highlighted, good professional and personal relationships are very much instrumental in managing success.

In his concluding remarks, Gadzama admonished young persons by stating that “Young persons must know that even after applying these principles and doing all that should be done, they ought to be patient with themselves and the process before the desired goals come to fruition”.

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‘WHY WE CHOSE CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE AS AGC 2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKER’ – TCCP

AGC 2022 Keynote Speaker: Our Bold Choice

It is no longer news that renowned author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the Keynote Speaker at the 62nd Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference coming up in Lagos in August.

The choice of Adichie as Keynote Speaker at a conference themed “Bold Transitions”, which connotes a transition to a more vibrant, dynamic, and vivacious future, is apt.

It is even more so coming during an NBA administration that has shown leadership in a dynamic and fast-changing world. Ms Adichie, author of many books, is a world renowned thought leader whose opinions on key global issues are highly respected.

Her novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun” published in 2006, made it to New York Times’s “100 Most Notable Books of the Year” in 2007 and has since sold over 5 million copies. While her 2012 TEDx Euston talk, sparked a worldwide conversation, was published as a book in 2014 and featured in Beyonce’s song “Flawless”.

The choice of Ms Adichie also fits into the aspiration of the NBA President to make the 2022 AGC a legacy conference that sets a standard that will become a benchmark for subsequent conferences of the NBA.

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NBA AGC 2022: CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE IS KEYNOTE SPEAKER

The Nigerian Bar Association has announced Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as Keynote Speaker at its forthcoming Annual General Conference in Lagos.

Adichie, author of Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, and several other works, will be speaking at the opening ceremony of the conference in August.

The conference, themed “Bold Transitions”, will take place at the Eko Atlantic City, Victoria Island, Lagos from 19th to 26th August, 2022. Registration for the conference is ongoing at www.nbaconference.com, with and early bird window which will run until 17th July.

Chimamanda Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977 and grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a Professor and her mother was the first female Registrar.

She started out as a medical student at Nsukka before departing for the US where she took a different path, graduating summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science. She has a Master’s Degree in African Studies from Yale University, and a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University.

Ms. Adichie was awarded a Hodder fellowship at Princeton University for the 2005-2006 academic year, a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008, and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University for the 2011-2012 academic year.

She has received honorary doctorate degrees from Eastern Connecticut State University, Johns Hopkins University, Haverford College, Williams College, the University of Edinburgh, Duke University, Amherst College, Bowdoin College, SOAS University of London, American University, Georgetown University, Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, Northwestern University, and University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Adichie has delivered two landmark TED talks – her 2009 TED Talk ”The Danger of A Single Story” and her 2012 TEDx Euston Talk ”We Should All Be Feminists”, which was published as a book in 2014.

Adichie’s work has been translated into over 30 languages. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), won the Orange Prize; and her 2013 novel, Americanah, won the US National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. A story from her collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, was awarded the O Henry Prize.

Her other works include Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, published in March 2017, and Notes On Grief, an essay about losing her father, published in 2021.

A member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ms. Adichie was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2015, and in 2017, Fortune Magazine named her one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.

The 2022 NBA Annual General Conference is expected to bring together thought leaders in the areas of justice delivery, technology, economy, politics, judicial reforms, human rights, and rule of law, said Tobenna Erojikwe, Chairman, Technical Committee on Conference Planning (TCCP).

“The aim is to have leading lawyers and thought leaders in the various fields to discuss and harmonise positions on the way forward on building a more effective Bar and a resilient country able to thrive amidst changing global dynamics,” Erojikwe said.

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