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Sunday, August 29 2004 Search : Vol 17 No.30

News Opinion Features Sports Chic Columnists Faith Personage Magazine Interview Business Week Sunday Politics Ecowas Report Family Line Foreign News Lawyers to get car loans ACHILLEUS UCHEGBU THE 2004 delegates conference of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) ended in Abuja, yesterday, with New President, Chief Bayo Ojo (SAN) promising to, establish a car-loan scheme for lawyers within some days. In his acceptance speech before over 5000 lawyers, a highly elated Chief Ojo, said, enhancement of lawyers welfare, will form the bulwark of his administration. Receiving the mantle of leadership from Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), whom he handed over chairmanship of the Ilorin branch of NBA years back, Chief Ojo said, lawyers will now have access to loans that will enable them improve on their welfare. The new president, who polled 506 votes to beat Mr. Joseph Daudu (SAN), Alhaji Abubakar Mahmond and Chief Philip Umeh, said some banks have put loan facilities at the disposal of the association to achieve the objective. Chief Ojo, who at the 2002 delegate conference at Ibadan, Oyo State, stepped down for Chief Olanipekun, urged his co-contestants for the office to join hands with him in order to "lift the association to another horizon". Lauding the outgone executive for efforts at giving the associate a sense of direction, Chief Ojo urged lawyers to be more committed so as to help NBA play its role in a democratic Nigeria. The five-day event featured several papers aimed at enhancing continued legal education, even as it attracted over 5000 lawyers from all 88 branches of the association. Star of the event was former Chief of Army Staff, (COAS) General Victor Malu (rtd) who held lawyers spell bound with his paper, which detailed his experienced as ECOWAS monitoring Group (ECOMOG) field commander in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Several lawyers who spoke to Saturday Champion lauded organization of the event.

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