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Services Front Page Back Page Advert Rates Subscription News Home National International Business News Abuja Reports Sports Politics Sun Girl Editorial Editorial Issues Letters Opinion Columnists Community Standard Guestbook View Guestbook Sun Chatroom   Features Apettit Arts BlockBuster CEO Magazine Celebrity Fashion City Sun Crime Watch Covert Choice CyberSun Enterprise Everyday Heroes Exquisite Property Fashion & Celebrity Fashion & Beauty Favourite File Health Magazine How I write Life Style Living Mafia Series Man in the street Man in the pulpit Managing a Law Firm Me & My God Media People Money Motoring Power Game Romance Romantic Faction Senior Citizen Showtime Smoking Guns Sun Splash Sunlight of Islam Travels Window of the world Window on widows Woman of the Sun Women in Business Women & Me Videoscope Weekend Sun Saturday Sun Sunday Sun Weekend Sports Weekend Cartoons Company Profile About Us Management Contact Us   Confusion at NBA conference as SANs slump By ADESINA AIYEKOTI, Abuja Thursday, August 26, 2004     National Index The on-going delegates’ conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Abuja was thrown into confusion Wednesday following news that another top member of the association had collapsed. This came barely 24 hours after a legal luminary slumped while delivering a paper at the conference. The spate of collapsing started Tuesday afternoon when the chairman of the NBA Disciplinary Committee, Chief Bamidele Aiku (SAN), slumped while delivering a conference paper. He was speaking on Professional Ethics/Discipline of Lawyers when the incident happened at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers. It took the efforts of a combined team of medical doctors to revive him. In a similar incident, the Chairman, Planning Committee of the conference, Mr. Mamman Mike Osumann, recently appointed a SAN, also collapsed in his room at the Sheraton Hotel at about 11.00pm Tuesday night. Daily Sun investigation revealed that following the incident, a distress call was made to out-going president of the NBA, Chief Wole Olanipekun, who quickly sent for a medical team. The collapsed SAN was revived. The medical team that attended to the two legal luminaries, Daily Sun gathered, identified exhaustion as cause of the incident. Although the two SANs are now in good health, they were asked by doctors to stay in their hotel rooms. Meanwhile, a retired Supreme Court judge, Justice E.O. Ayoola, has urged the NBA to take the issue of professional conduct seriously. "Reputation of a Bar is not built on the high number of lawyers that have been disciplined for misconduct, but on a palpable culture of ethical conduct among the profession. That should be the aspiration of the Nigerian Bar," Ayoola said. He urged the association to help in providing guidance to the profession so that "we not only assist in ensuring that our members do not unwittingly run foul of the provisions of the legislation." The former judge of the apex court submitted that notoriety for unethical conduct among Nigerian lawyers can jeopardise international commerce and national interest.           HOME | ABOUT THE SUN | SPORTS | POLITICS | NEWS | COLUMNISTS | CONTACT US I ADVERT RATE © 2004 THE SUN PUBLISHING LTD. This service is provided on The Sun Newspapers' standard terms and conditions in accordance with our Privacy Policy. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material and other inquiries, Contact Us.

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