QUOTES
OPENING PLENARY SESSION
Topic: “The Glass is Shattered: Insights from Nigeria’s Female Banking Leaders on Achieving Career Success and Staying Relevant.”
Mrs. Yetunde Oni
📌Seven Fs that helped her journey:
Family
-Friendships: Mentors, sponsors, coaches
-Food
-Fix
-Feedbacks
-Fun
-Faith
Mrs. Oluwatomi Somefun
📌Keep abreast of technology and changes in our organisation.
📌After the glass ceilings have been removed, only friends and family will come back to you.
Ijeoma Bassey
📌Have a tribe! Your tribe members can call you to order.
Bukola Smith
📌 Be accountable on your actions. Be strong on integrity.
📌A mentor speaks to you
A coach speaks with you
A sponsor speaks for you
Mrs. Kafilat Araoye
📌The glass was not shattered but was rather carefully replaced with tact, competence and great confidence.
📌If you don’t have an agenda, you become the agenda.
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“President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Maikyau, In declaring the Break out session V on the topic “Is State Police Solution to National Insecurity”, under the Arakurin Rotimi Akeredolu Leadership series, said the session is an important one in memory of the former NBA President and Governor of Ondo state, Arakurin Akeredolu.
He said Akeredolu was at the forefront of agitation for the decentralisation of the Nigerian Police and the creation of States policing architecture geared towards developing a formidable local police force.
“He drafted the Amotekun law, which we all want to emulate all over the country.”
Maikyau added that without relative security, we are enjoying qe will mor be here .”
“The dynamics of criminalities and complexities of our communities have thrown up new security challenges which require local and community-based initiatives to combat them effectively. “
GOVERNOR LUCKY AIYEDATIWA
“Times were when the centralised conventional police tried to manage our internal security system. The advent of kidnappings, banditry, cattle-rustlings, farmers-herdsmen clashes and terrorism is an evolution in security threats that calls for new approaches to security architectures and crime prevention in our country.
“We require a decentralised security system that takes into account our diverse socio-cultural, terrains and environmental peculiarities in the management of crimes.”
GOVERNOR LUCKY AIYEDATIWA
QUOTES
Breakout Session 1
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law. What are the issues the NBA should be addressing right now, and how?
Hon. Justice Kashim Zannah
AI is more than automation. AI thinks.
There are AI tools to enhance legal drafting.
Akintunde Agunbiade.
There is a feature on LinkedIn to generate captions.
Experiment with AI tools. Know their advantages and features.
Obele Akinniranye
Think about an idea and automate it.
We focus on traditional access to justice but we need transformative access to justice which would involve the Internet.
There is a prediction that we can have online Court systems.
Court systems should come up with solutions that would work.
To major in AI as a lawyer, you will need to do a lot of reading to get the foundational knowledge.
AI is so broad. It could be consent, ethics, governance, or compliance.
Breakout Session 3
📌AI helps us to detect who is using AI -Prof. Gbenga Oduntan
📌Modern lawyers should not be left behind on emerging technologies-Prof. Gbenga Oduntan
📌Virtual hearing is not unconstitutional-Hon. Justice Josephine Obanor
📌The World is becoming “E” – Ibrahim Sule Esq.
📌AI will not replace lawyers rather it is lawyers that use AI that will replace lawyers that do not know how to use AI -Ope Olugasa
📌Never put the real details of your clients (such as names and addresses) when using AI-Ope Olugasa
NNEKA OBIAGOR ESQ.
Inemesit Dike
We should imbibe technology learning in our education.
It should be embedded in our regulations that lawyers should align with the rules of technical competence.
We need to stop playing the catch up game and start using technology in our curriculum.
Study simple courses on AI on Coursera and other online education platforms.
When you get the first results on AI, edit it, and give it back to AI. Do the process again until you get satisfied results. It would give you a refined agreement.
Lawyers should think about how they can contribute to the tech space.
Law is not just solving problems it is preventing problems.
Lawyers are the easiest targets for data breach because they have important client information. So we need to be vast in cybersecurity regulations.
Raise funding for Research and Development at the Branch and National level of the NBA to solve legal and technology problems.
Come up with an idea, make it workable, and the NBA can reserve funds for it.
Platforms to learn about AI
-Coursera
-AWS learning
-Google learning
-Udemy
AI tools
-ChatGPT
-Gemini
-Claude AI