ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION (NBA), ABUBAKAR BALARABE MAHMOUD, OON, SAN, FCIARB (UK), SFNLI AT THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (NEC) MEETING HOLDING IN LOKOJA, KOGI STATE ON 1st Day Of JUNE , 2017 IN LOKOJA, KOGI STATE
1. PROTOCOLS Your Excellency, the Executive Governor of Kogi State, Alh. Yahaya Bello, the Hon. Chief Judge of Kogi State, Hon. Justice Nasir .A. Ajana ,CON, Judges of the Kogi State High Court and Judges of the Customary Court of Appeal, the Honourable Attorney General of Kogi State and Commissioner for Justice, members of the Kogi State Executive Council, National Officers of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), Honourable Benchers, Eminent Bar Leaders, Distinguished members of NBA-National Executive Committee (NEC), Ladies and Gentlemen. 2. PREFACE It is my pleasure to welcome you to this quarterly regular meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of Nigerian Bar Association. I salute our distinguished members of NEC who have continued to travel across the country at great personal risk and expense to attend these meetings. Our regular NEC meetings have become an essential means by which the NBA connects to ordin