Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, has been sworn in as the new president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
He won the elective process that was conducted to produce Mr. Yakubu Maikyau’s successor.

Born in October 25, 1972, Mr. Afam a graduate of the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus was called to the Bar in 1999. He started legal practice with Chike Chigbue and Co, Abuja Office in 1999 and left in 2002 to found his firm, the LAW FORTE (Legal Practitioners, Corporate Consultants and Notary Public).

Osigwe became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) in 2011, obtained a Master of Laws Degree (LL.M) from the University of Jos, has a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration and holds another LL.M in (Transnational Commercial Practice) from the Centre for International Legal Studies, Austria (in collaboration with the Lazarsky University, Poland).

At his swear -in – ceremony in Lagos, which marked his commencement as the 32nd President of the NBA, Osigwe promised that, under his leadership, the NBA would actively hold both federal and state governments accountable. Pledging to work towards the collective interests of the bar.