The National Executive Council of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has proposed the 2020 Annual General Conference of the association to hold in Port Harcourt from 21 August 2020 – 27 August 2020 with three (3) full days of technical discourse.
Structure of Activities:
It was suggested that the AGC should feature:
1. keynote addresses and speeches;
2. knowledge exchanges; 3. a debate;
4. breakout sessions;
5. business forum (small forum where lawyers cam meets potential investors)
6. Legal clinics
7. technical training for barristers as well as solicitors; and
8. a platform for fostering bonding and mentoring between business managers and lawyers, corporates and the bar, and leaders and millennials.
These will be delivered through several working sessions tailored to meet the challenges of the 21ST Century and taking Nigeria and Africa, to their rightful place.
PROPOSED PROGRAMME
Registration
There will be provision for online and onsite registration. The TCCP hopes that majority of registrations will be concluded online, with limited onsite registration at the AGC.
Furthermore, to improve the aesthetic value of the NBA Conference and avoid rowdiness, it was proposed that the TCCP adopt a strict mandatory pre-registration approach such that everyone registers online prior to the Conference with an intelligent Conference I.D. card each allocated to a participant to serve as their NBA AGC passes, in addition to the delivery of other conference materials to the participant locations.
However, in view of certain government departments who might be unable to register before the NBA Conference due to late disbursement of funds from the Government, there would be a limited window for on-site registration as premium.
It was also proposed that the TCCP have an on-site security screening machine through which all validly registered participants are granted access to the NBA Conference area by means of their Intelligent I.D card/Conference passes alone.
Programme & Event Planning
For expediency, the TCCP has put in motion, aspects of planning, in order to lock in the Conference dates and proposed speakers and facilitators. Request for proposals (RfPs) to engage a professional event planner who has significant experience in series of high level and high-quality formal events for many years, to commence preliminary work on logistics for the AGC, are in motion. Meetings and working sessions as a Committee and as sub-committees inclusive of heads of sections and for a, have begun towards shaping our proposed event.
Venue: Port Harcourt – Rivers State, Nigeria
In the absence of a world class venue in Port-Harcourt, suitable to accommodate a conference in the magnitude of the AGC, in terms of attendees’ security and access, TCP plans to, through the instrumentality of the Rivers State Government, construct a model International Convention Centre (ICC) in Port-Harcourt worthy of the jubilee celebration. Bespoke tents designed in China, shall be developed for this purpose, the utilisation of which would ultimately translate into increased costs for the AGC.
This would provide for the much-needed breakout sessions, private meetings, training sessions, exhibition stands, banqueting and social hubs, for participants.
Below are the Conference fees as proposed by NBA TCCP;
1-5 Years
N20,000 – Early Bird
N 45,000 – Regular Fee
N 90,000 – Late/Onsite Fee
6-10 Years
N30,000 early bird
N65,000 Regular fee
N130,000 -Late/Onsite Fee
11-15 Years
N45,000 early bird
N80,000 Regular fee
N160,000 – Late/Onsite Fee
16-20 Years
N60,000 early bird
N100,000 Regular fee
N200,000 – Late/Onsite Fee
Above 20 Years
N120,000 early bird
N160,000 Regular fee.
N320,000 – Late/Onsite Fee
SAN, Hon Attorneys General & Benchers
N250,000 early bird
N350,000
N700,000 – Late/Onsite Fee
Magistrates & Other Judicial Officers
N50,000
N50,000
N50,000 – Late/Onsite Fee
Honorable Justices
Honorable Judges Grand Khadis and Khadis.
N75,000
N75,000
N75,000
