Modernisation of an Ailing Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the Challenges for the Next NBA President By Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee

Modernisation of an Ailing Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the Challenges for the Next NBA President

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) must self-reform or we opt for the formation of a parallel Nigerian lawyers association, the way accountants now have parallel associations in Nigeria: Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN). And that nuclear choice or option is inherent in every lawyer’s exercise of his / her human right to freedom of association. It borders on the human-right issue of personal self-determination.

We need a President of the NBA that will modernise the Association, make it worthy of membership, cause it to be member-friendly and not exploitative in any manner whatsoever, and address the critical issue of the holistic WELFARE of Nigerian lawyers.

We need a President of the NBA that will address the critical issue of legal scholarship (research and publication) in the Nigerian legal profession.

I’m happy that the Paul Usoro, SAN-led administration addressed the critical issue of an online payment gateway for NBA products and services, which I did my best to highlight in the 2018 NBA election process. Congratulations to Paul Usoro, SAN and his 2018–2020 National Executive Committee on this historic achievement.

I intend to publish critical aspects of overdue modernisation of the NBA that any responsible NBA President should address in the next administration that is expected to be inaugurated this year (2020), for which the spirited preparations for NBA national elections are already underway.

Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee
Legal Information Technologist (Legal Informaticist) & Pioneer Global Advocate of the Universal Recognition of the Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information as a Substantive Human Right

Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of the FREE online Nigerian Legal Information and Lawyers in Nigeria Directory (Nigerian Lawyers Directory): https://nigerianlawyersdirectory.com

2 July 2020

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Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee holds a multidisciplinary PhD in international human rights law, legal information technology (aspects of legal informatics), indigenous customary law, and indigenous rights and LLM in transborder comparative analysis of free access to public legal information. He is an associate professor of law and a former legal research national consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the 1998 PCASED project that provided the juridical foundations for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) 1998 Moratorium which culminated in a regional multilateral treaty: ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons, their Ammunition and other Related Matters 2006. He devised the <.officiallaws) official public legal information generic top-level domain (gTLD) system for easy identification of the reliable versions of the laws published online worldwide; developed the system of nationally networked one-stop official public legal information websites (the NOPLIW system) for the optimal findability and management of online law databases; invented the human rights-based public access-adequate huricompatisation model of ascertainment of indigenous customary law (huricompatisation); formulated the new human rights-advocacy approach (NHRAA) that consists of a set of ten onerous criteria for the formal universal recognition of new human rights; and pioneered the global advocacy of the formal universal recognition of the right of free access to public legal information as a substantive or stand-alone human right in 2017 (https://publiclegalinformation.com).
His Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series consists of 22 (twenty-two) modern academic article-style independent but interconnected chapters of the following four books:
• Developments in Human Rights Law and the Proposed Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information: The New Human Rights-Advocacy Approach and the Ten Criteria for the Formal Recognition of New Human Rights (Volume 1) — ISBN 9789083108520 (eBook) and 9789083108506 (paperback);
• The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access (Volume 2) — ISBN 9789083108568 (eBook) and 9789083108544 (paperback);
• Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information (Volume 3) — ISBN 9789083108513 (eBook) and 9789083108582 (paperback); and
• A Model Empirical Study of the State of Free Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information (Volume 4) — ISBN 9789083108551 (eBook) and 9789083108537 (paperback).
Koinonia Legal Research and Book Publishing website (https://koinonialegal.com) contains details of the availability of these books and valuable legal information resources.
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Modernisation of an Ailing Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the Challenges for the Next NBA President By Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee