Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia
Human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekohme, SAN, is to present special paper at the 5th annual national conference of Nigerian Association of Law Teachers, NALT, billed to hold in Abia State from July 11 to 15.
According to the National President of NALT, Professor Eze Ngwakwe, Professor Earnest Ojukwu, SAN, will deliver the lead paper at the event to be chaired by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe.
Professor Ngwakwe who addressed newsmen in Umuahia, said Afe Babalola would be a special guests at the annual event.
Professor Ngwakwe who is also the Dean Faculty of Law, Abia State University, said that the conference to be hosted by the Faculty, would hold at the International Conference Centre Umuahia.
Giving the theme of the conference as Law and National Integration, he said that the President, Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Y. C Maikyau, would deliver the Keynote address.
According to him, the event is expected to draw over 1500 participants from across various universities, law schools, and professional law bodies and institutes in the country.
He said that papers presented at the conference would help to address the various challenges of Nigeria’s integration.
“They will help weld us together as a nation by identifying the forces trying to divide us, and the position of law,” he added.
Professor Ngwakwe who said that NALT which was formed in 1962 “is responsible for the publishing of the Nigeria Law Journals,” adding that it has consistently held its national conferences except in 2020 and 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The NALT President who was flanked by ABSU law lecturers including Dr Haglar Okorie, and former Deputy Speaker of the Abia House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Chinedum Elechi, said that a communique would be issued at the end of the conference.
According to him, self determination and national integration; as well as internal security and national integration are some of the boiling national issues that will be discussed at the conference.
The conference would also deliberate on Citizenship and National Integration; Managing Right to Religion and Secularity in National Integration, among others.
