ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION, MR. YAKUBU CHONOKO MAIKYAU, OON, SAN, DELIVERED AT THE VALEDICTORY COURT SESSION HELD IN HONOUR OF THE LATE HONOURABLE JUSTICE CHIMA CENTUS NWEZE, JSC, ON THE 10TH OF OCTOBER 2023 AT THE SUPREME COURT COMPLEX, ABUJA.

PROTOCOLS

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time 

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Psalm of Life]

1. My lord, the honourable, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, honourable Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, GCON, and my lords, the justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, it is with a heavy heart that I rise today in this special court session, to pay tribute to one of the very outstanding personalities that ever graced our halls of justice, the honourable justice Chima Centus Nweze, Ph.D., JSC, CFR.

2. Valedictory court sessions, irrespective of the circumstance, are sober and solemn moments; they both speak to the transience of the positions we are privileged to hold in life and the fleetingness of life itself. When it is about death, it comes with an additional feeling of sadness for an irreparable loss.

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