NBA honours Gani Fawehinmi

Lawyers in the country under the umbrella of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) over the weekend in Lagos gathered to remember the late Chief AbdulGaniyu Oyesola Fawehinmi (SAN). The event was the 18th edition of the Chief Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture which took place at the Lagos Airport Hotel on Saturday, January 15. The Ikeja […]

Lawyers in the country under the umbrella of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) over the weekend in Lagos gathered to remember the late Chief AbdulGaniyu Oyesola Fawehinmi (SAN).

The event was the 18th edition of the Chief Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture which took place at the Lagos Airport Hotel on Saturday, January 15.

The Ikeja Branch of NBA has set aside January 15 of every year to commemorate the life and times of the celebrated social critic and human rights defender. 

The topic for this year’s lecture: “The Imperatives of Good Governance and the Struggles of Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN): Whither Nigeria?”, afforded speakers time to extol the virtues of the legal luminary.

According to the NBA President, Olumide Akpata, “The late Chief Gani Fawehinmi was a man we cannot honour enough. He has written his full names in the sands of time and has left a legacy of an adroit defender of human rights. 

“For us at the NBA, he remains a major resource of knowledge bank with the evergreen analyses and reportage of contemporary cases in the Nigerian Weekly Law Report (NWLR) which, quite commendably, has continued even after his passing.”