Aelex Legal Practitioners is set to play host to the great Professor Ali Mazrui, Albert Schweitzer Professor of the Humanities and director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, at Binghamton University New York; who will be the Guest Speaker at the 8th Aelex Annual Lecture.

Mazrui, who has been named one of the 100 greatest Africans of all time, as well as one of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals will be speaking on the lecture theme for this year, “This House Must Not Fall: Constitutional Reform and the People’s Will.”

The lecture is expected to open a discourse on this hot topic, to provide the general public the opportunity for education on topical issues of national interest, which is usually handled by experts in relevant fields.

Discussants at this year’s lecture include, former Research Professor, Dr. Haroun Adamu, a renowned academic and veteran journalist and a member of the 1989 Constitutional Conference, Dr. Ayo Teriba, the chief executive officer of Economic Associates and member of National Economic Intelligence Committee, NEIC and Ms. Ann-kio Briggs, a prominent activist from the Niger Delta and Founder/President, Agape Birthrights Organisation.

The annual event which commenced in 2005 is organised to commemorate the formation of AELEX on  July 1, 2004, which was borne out of a merger of four leading law firms with diversified practice areas.

This year’s event holding at the Agip Hall, Muson Centre, Lagos on July 25, 2012 will be Chaired by Justice Kayode Eso; a retired Justice of Supreme Court.