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The Chairman of the NBA Remuneration Committee, Emeka Obegolu, SAN, has extended warm congratulations to the Nigerian Bar Association Okehi Branch (Anchor Bar) as it marks its 2025 Annual Law…
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The 2025 Law Week of the NBA Okehi Branch presents a timely and well-considered theme, one that resonates deeply with the present realities of legal practice. Barth Aniche Okoye, Immediate…
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Paul Harris Ogbole, SAN, has warmly congratulated the Nigerian Bar Association Okehi Branch (Anchor Bar) as it opens its 2025 Annual Law Week, praising the branch for adopting a theme…
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