Rivers CJ Lauds NBA Over Port Harcourt Confab

The Rivers State Chief
Judge, Justice A.I. Iyayi-Lamikanra has lauded the leadership of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) for the choice of Port Harcourt as the venue for this year’s conference.
The state chief judge made this commendation in a good will message she sent to the 2016 NBA conference holding at the Civic Centre in Port Harcourt.
Justice Iyayi Lamikanra recalled that the conference was the fourth time the state was hosting the NBA. If I remember well, Rivers State hosted the Nigerian Bar Association National Conference (NEC meeting) in 1988, 1996 and 2000. These are testimonies or formidable assurances to you all that Rivers State is a home of peace and security where the government and good people of the state treasure her visitors with boundless hospitalities”.
According to her, the conference as a National event, brings together lawyers and all other stakeholders in the legal profession and called on the delegates to strive towards the realisation of the theme of the conference:  “Democracy and Economic Development”
She urged them to use the opportunity provided by the conference to address the strategic needs of Nigeria in the social, political and economic realities of the nation and the realization of the vision and mission of the federal and state governments.
Justice Lamikanra opined that there was urgent need to harness comprehensive and systematic actions for the benefit of Nigeria through the attainment of the goals and objectives of the NBA.
“The promotion and protection of human rights, the rule of law and good governance” which according to her are essential to the theme of the conference.