The Section recently developed and launched its Competency Framework. This Competency Framework effectively defines roles, responsibilities and expectations of organizational behaviour in a structured and analytical manner. It provides industry-wide standards by which business lawyers can be assessed and developed. It addresses non-legal as well as core legal skills in five different practice areas common …
*President Buhari’s leadership in COVID-19 fight lauded As President Sissoco Embaló of Guinea-Bissau assumes chairmanship of the West African regional body, ECOWAS, alongside a newly composed Commission, there are high expectations regarding the output of the body and the leaders…
Some consultants to the Nigerian Governors Forum on the Paris/London Club Refund; Dr. George Uboh and Panic Alert Security System[PASS] have dragged Five Senior Advocates of Nigeria before the Federal High Court seeking for their imprisonment and disciplinary sanctions from…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday maintained that the 2023 general election will hold despite the security challenges in the country. Speaking at the presentation of INEC 2022 to 2026 strategic Plan and 2023 Election Project Plan, National…
While it is impossible to cover the subject of U.S. bar admission for foreign lawyers[1] in such depth given the different rules and decisions from various U.S. States, for the purposes of this article, what will be presented will be…
Revenue accruals to the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) slumped by N68.055 billion in October as the the three tiers of government shared the sum of N671.910 billion as federation allocation for the month compared to N739.965 billion in September….
The Senate, on Wednesday, confirmed the nominations of Nnamonso Ekanem and Mahmoud Abubakar Magaji as members of the Federal Judicial Service Commission. The nominees who are from Akwa Ibom and Niger states are to represent the south-south and north-central zones…