This New Year, our heart goes out to the victims of the Haiti Disaster, what a way to begin the year. The death toll is said to be unimaginable and aid is barely trickling in. Haiti needs your help and your prayers. Read this for more information.
There has been a general outcry from Nigerians all [...]

You are known as the foremost Insolvency and Bankruptcy practitioner in Nigeria. What got you interested in this area of practice? And what did you do to become the expert that you are today?
I got in by coincidence. I have always thought about buying businesses, adding value and selling for profit; for some reason I [...]

In the past two decades, blogs have almost completely taken over the World Wide Web. Most internet users find themselves going to blogs for information and articles on practically any topic as there are niche blogs in virtually every field. This explosive revolution has swept through every region of the world from Addis Ababa to [...]

No More Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN)That was the hue and cry at the Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association. It was a proposition that was slipped in at every opportunity. To understand the depth and intensity of this cry and the resulting reaction, an appreciation of the rank of Senior Advocate of [...]

Goodbye House of Lords | News | The Lawyer. As of today, 30th July, 2009, the UK House of Lords ceases to exist as we know it. This was published by The Lawyer.com.
For those who trained in Common Law jurisdictions (like I did), the House of Lord is sacrosanct; or at least, we were taught [...]

I came to Transcorp Hilton for the 4th Business Law Conference of the Nigerian Bar Associations’ Section on Business Law full of expectations; secure in the knowledge that I would get the opportunity to network in a big way and also learn new ways of making the marriage between Law and Technology more seamless and [...]

After years of talking with a wide variety of lawyers, I have found that many practitioners have one thing in common: they seem to want to deny that they are, well, lawyers. They downplay the legal content of their jobs.Private client lawyers (for example, those who advise on divorces or draft wills) tell me that [...]

A wiki is a software which allows a group of users to freely add and edit articles on any subject. Wiki.Org defines a wiki as “a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser.” Wikipedia is probably the most successful wiki on the web.
One [...]

One of the problems with being an author who makes predictions is that, eventually, you can be called to account. With the benefit of hindsight, critics can expose the misconceptions and the naiveties. Or, much less likely, they can confirm that the vision has been fully realised.In my book, The Future of Law, published in [...]

The recent years have witnessed the near complete arrogation of traditional ways of conducting business, by the rapid metamorphosing of Information Technology (IT). In Nigeria, the giant leap has been made from the long queues synonymic with the bureaucratic process to online filings and registrations. The times are rapidly changing.
In view of this, it is [...]