The just concluded summit of the Nigerian Bar Association-Young Lawyers Forum, Port Harcourt branch, has highlighted potential solutions and opportunities to foster leadership and professional growth in the country.
In a communiqué read at the end of the summit and signed by its chairman, Dr Victor Enebeli, the forum stressed the need for young lawyers to rise up to their full potentials.
The communiqué lauded the gesture of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in appointing young Nigerians into sensitive positions of trust and called on state governments all over the federation to follow suit.
lt said young lawyers are qualified, ready and willing to serve the nation if given the opportunity, adding that young lawyers are grossly underutilised.
The communiqué decried the current state of affairs in the Port Harcourt campus of the Nigerian Law School, which was built by the Rivers state government and handed over to the federal government.
The communiqué commended the young lawyers forum, Port Harcourt branch for putting up the summit and chided senior lawyers in the country to be worthy role models and mentors to the young lawyers.
It called on the young lawyers to partner with the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs to lead the first against sexual harassment in the workplace and gender growth.
The communiqué noted with dismay the recent call for the removal of the current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory,Chief Nyesom Wike by Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, stating that Nigeria’ s socio-economic challenges are partly rooted in the subsisting failure to embrace inclusiveness in all sectors and segments of the fragmented unity of the country.
