Lead with purpose, not position – NBA president charges young lawyers

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Afam Osigwe, has challenged young ineligible practitioners crossed the state to attack enactment with intention, integrity and a wide consciousness of responsibility, informing that the aboriginal of the assemblage depends mostly connected their readiness.

Osigwe made the telephone connected April 23 2026, portion addressing participants astatine the nationalist acme of the NBA Young Lawyers’ Forum, held to people the Forum’s 20th anniversary.

The gathering drew young lawyers from antithetic parts of Nigeria, creating a level to bespeak connected the Forum’s travel implicit the past 2 decades, peculiarly successful mentoring and shaping early-career practitioners wrong the ineligible space.

Speaking connected the taxable “Rising to Lead,” the NBA president acknowledged the relation the Forum has played successful gathering capableness among young lawyers, describing it arsenic a dependable pipeline for the adjacent procreation of ineligible leaders.

He, however, stressed that enactment wrong the assemblage indispensable spell beyond titles, urging participants to anchor their maturation connected competence, ethical behaviour and service.

“Leadership wrong the Bar indispensable beryllium intentional, guided by integrity and driven by a committedness to service,” helium said.

Osigwe cautioned against viewing enactment arsenic a presumption to occupy, insisting alternatively that it should beryllium earned done consistency, subject and ...