#7 items on the senate president’s ‘TO-DO’ list for lawyers

To see new tools for better commercial contract development and enforcement, conflict management, private property protection and judicial protection and security of enterprise.

To see the NBA develop a new legal culture that will help promote new laws for effectiveness.

To have the NBA-SBL to actively engage with the legislature to provide cutting edge and comprehensive legislative review on all legislative issues and much more.

With the National Assembly taking another look at the issue of expansive discretionary powers under Nigerian laws, the Senate President would therefore want the NBA and indeed all lawyers to ponder on this and work with NASS on amendments and new legislative proposals which will limit opportunities for corruption to the barest minimum.

To have the NBA and its business law section join hands with the legislature to form a new partnership that will make the Nigerian economy great again.

To see greater participation and broader stakeholder engagement, deliberation and transparency from the legal community.

More training and strategy for the prosecution of cases, which in turn will ensure better prosecution culture; where thorough investigation will take precedence over media sensation. Lawyers are urged to work with law makers to chart a legislative path for this
The Senate President Bukola Saraki made this ‘charge list’ at the just concluded annual business law conference of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law where he was Keynote Speaker.