NACL Ibadan Provincial Summit begins, Sept. 17

By Adewale Kupoluyi I Friday, August 02, 2024

 

IBADAN, Nigeria – The National Association of Catholic Lawyers (NACL), Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province would hold the Provincial Summit from Friday, September 27 to Saturday, September 28, 2024, tagged ‘Ede 2024’, at St.

Augustine Regional Pastoral Institute (SARPI), Ede, Osun State. Each diocese in the province is expected to send three delegates, chaplain inclusive to the summit with the theme, ‘Legal Profession in a Distressed Economy: The Catholic Lawyer in Perspective’.

Registration fee is N25,000 per participant while the payment deadline is Saturday, August 31, 2024. According to the Protem President of NACL, Ibadan Province, Michael Agbolade, the body is the platform that brings practitioners of law, who are Catholic members under one body with a view to operating within the umbrella body of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).

He said NACL enhances the desire of the church at promoting rule of law to all, who are denied of their inalienable rights since law is a vital tool for liberation, which humanity requires to enhance human development that cuts across economic, intellectual property, healthcare, formal education, human rights, care of for the physically-challenged, orphans and destitute persons, widows, child’s rights enforcement, social communication and family law advocacy, among others.

The aim and objectives of the association include cooperating with the ecclesiastical authorities of the province and is dedicated to the ideals of the Catholic church in the promotion of the gospel message of salvation.

The group also renders advisory, advocacy and/or legal services through any of its established institutions such as hospitals, schools and colleges, and seminaries’ adhoc committees, and partners with relevant agencies in government or individuals in the promotion of ideals of legal profession and scholarship in law and journal publications. The body was initially named as the Catholic Lawyers’ Forum (CLF), but later changed to the National Association of Catholic Lawyers (NACL), Agbolade stated further.