The Chairman, Body of Benchers, Justice Mary Peter Odili has charged the newly called to bar lawyers in Nigeria to use the law profession as a sword to fight all forms of injustices in the country to make it more peaceful and habitable. Justice Odili specifically asked the new wigs to fight for what is
right and for the downtrodden Nigerians who cannot fend for their own rights. At a call to bar ceremony for a batch of 1,097 new legal practitioners, the former Supreme Court Justice said as lawyers, they are uniquely positioned to provide not just random acts of service but world-changing, life-changing and view-shaping service.
'In your service as a legal practitioner, you must not forget to put into practice the ethical and moral obligations of a lawyer that have been imbibed in you by being civil and ethical.
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