… as Aguata Branch of NBA honours her as “Amazon of the Frontline Bar”
The Anambra State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Sylvia Ifemeje, has bagged “Amazon of the Frontline Bar” award; courtesy of the Aguata branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA.
The award, presented during the 2024 Law Week of the association, was in recognition of the Justice Commissioner’s “positive support, hospitality and motivation to the Bar”.
Receiving the honour and dedicating same to Governor Chukwuma Soludo, Professor Ifemeje announced that the end-to-end full automation of the 31 High Courts in Anambra and the Ministry of Justice, when completed by the end of the year, would make the state the first to achieve such feat in the Nigeria justice sector.
She stated that innovative, disruptive and transformative projects going on in the state justice sector are in line with Governor Soludo’s promise of expeditious dispensation of justice.
Other achievements of the state government in the justice sector, according to the Commissioner, include solar installation in all the High Courts, Court of Appeal, Federal High Court and Court of Appeal in Anambra, as well as all four Correctional Service Centres in the state.
She recalled that the Soludo administration has equally deployed virtual hearing facilities in all the High Courts and four Correctional Service Centres in the state, and has also embarked on massive renovation of all the Ministry of Justice Outstations in Nnewi, Awka, Onitsha, and Otuocha.
Earlier while welcoming participants to the event, the Chairman of Aguata Branch of the NBA, Victor Ezeonwumelu Esq., noted that the Law Week, which has been a biennial celebration in the branch, was not held since after that of 2020 due insecurity within and around the Old Aguata Region of the state, reason he commended Governor Chukwuma Soludo administration for doing alot to curb the unfortunate tide through good governance.
Noting that the Aguata Branch has since inception continued its search for a revolutionizing role for the law profession in the seemingly impracticable task of reshaping and re-routing the Nigerian nation through rich and robust indepth lectures, Barrister Ezeonwumelu explained that the 2024 Law Week with the theme, “Interrogating the judicial responses to the application of ICT as a panacea to electoral malpractices in Nigeria”, was yet another modest contribution to the “Nigerian Project”.
He congratulated award recipients at the event, and challenge them to continually justify the honors bestowed on them by further investment in integrity and industry in the years ahead.
