Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chris Okeke Headlines Obiama Uboma Home Coming. – by Godson Ikoro
The highly esteemed Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Christopher Ehumadu Okeke, will be the Keynote speaker at the 2024 edition of Obiama Uboma Foundation Home Coming.
The annual event is slated to hold on Sunday December 29th, 2024 at Mbarara Erueru, Ihitte- Uboma Local Government Area, IMO State.
The event will be chaired by his Lordship,Hon.Justice Lambert Azuama while other very illustrious sons will throng the event .
Chief Okeke will be speaking on the topic : AHAM EFULE.
Translated to English to mean “My Name Will Not Miss “
Expectedly, the learned speaker will try to capture and situation Uboma Clan in the trajectory of modernisation and stridently point out the way forward to all the eminent Uboma citizens to collate their influences to champion the Development of Uboma; if the name Uboma will not be missing in the comity of towns and nations.
He is the Managing Partner of Chris Okeke & Co, a Firm of Legal Practitioners, registered in Nigeria in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
He also served ,prominently , on Committees that reformed some important laws in Nigeria, including the Administration of Criminal Justice ACT(ACJA). This is in addition to being the official Biographer of the legendary late Honourable Justice Chukwudifu Akunne Oputa, CFR, D.Litt, K.t.C, SGG, Kt.CSS, KSM, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, whose reputation and contributions to the development of our jurisprudence has remained as the point of reference.
Okeke’s areas of interest are oil, gas and Environmental Law, Insolvency, Intellectual Property, and Commercial practice , among others. He has his major practice office in Lagos, with branch offices in Abuja and Port Harcourt.
Over the past three decades, he has acquired an unbroken experience in critical areas of the Nigerian law and practice, such as court room litigations in all the appellate courts of Nigeria.
The reverred speaker ,
Chris Okeke SAN, is also a Legal Practitioner, Notary Public and Economist.
Born on Tuesday, April 27, 1965, at Obeama, Oyigbo Local Government Area of River state, Chris Okeke attended Government Secondary School, umuagbai, Ndoki, also in Rivers State.
He is an alumnus of the Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree of laws in 1992. He was subsequently called to the Nigerian Bar in 1993.
He thereafter attended ESUT(Enugu State University of Technology), Business School, Enugu, Nigeria, where he earned a Post Graduate Diploma in Economics in 2022.
He has his major practice office in Lagos, with branch offices in Abuja and Port Harcourt.
He is happily married to Adline, and they are blessed with children.
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