Background
Wali was born on October 29, 1958 at Obio-Akpor local government area in the metropolis of Portuguese Harcourt, a southern part of Nigeria.
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He attended the Portuguese Harcourt Township School for his primary education but completed it at Saint Paul’s Primary School in Diobu, Portuguese Harcourt. He later attended Baptist High School, Portuguese Harcourt, where he obtained the West African School Certificate in 1973 and proceeded to the University of Buckingham, United Kingdom, where he received a Bachelor of Law degree in 1983.
Career
He returned to Nigeria for professional training at the Nigerian Law School in Lagos State and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1984. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1984. After few years of working experience, he was appointed as secretary of Portuguese Harcourt branch of the National Basketball Association in 1992.
He later served as the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of Rivers State before he was elected as the 26th president of the Nigerian Bar Association, having polled 688 votes to defeat Emeka Ngige (SAN), who had 449 votes.
He was succeeded by Augusustine Alegeh, a senior advocate of Nigeria. On October 2014, it was reported that Wali was abducted in Rivers State by unknown gunmen and released a few days after the abduction.
