Nigeria, March 25 -- It was timely, even if a mere coincidence. The audience was princely and the discourse quite robust. The Uyo Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association had previously scheduled its Annual Week for March 2020. It had to be postponed when COVID-19 surfaced; a situation that resulted in a global lockdown. Since then, every attempt to have it failed, until March 16, when the organisers believed the atmosphere was, health-wise, conducive enough to host the event.
The theme of the Week was: Akwa Ibom State, the Legal Profession and the Emerging Global Economy. A few days to the event, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released a stunning report to the effect that Nigeria's unemployment rate has hit 33.3 per cent. This impl...