Dr Olisa Agbakoba SAN, Senior Partner, OAL, chaired the Panel discussions on the above theme at the recently concluded 2015 Investment and Securities Tribunal Workshop in Lagos. Highpoints: The Capital market was recognized as an engine of economic development. Government was urged to raise the profile of the capital market. Participants expressed shock that the…
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The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) recently held in Malta. The Senior Partner of Olisa Agbakoba Legal was in attendance. Whilst there, his attention was drawn to the fact that there were several opportunities just waiting to be tapped, for both Nigeria, as a whole, and individual entrepreneurs. Sadly, unlike other countries at the…
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The OAL/NIPC Breakfast Meeting was held at the OAL Mediation Centre, 10a Ilabere Avenue, Ikoyi on 13th October 2015. It had in attendance participants from the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), Olisa Agbakoba Legal (OAL) as well as members of the press. The breakfast meeting was designed to create a strong collaboration with the NIPC…
DetailsINTERVIEW CONDUCTED WITH DR OLISA AGBAKOBA OF OAL ELECTORAL VICTORY Is time to reflect and say where are we going? This is the appropriate time for the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari and the various Governors-Elect to set an agenda. Is one thing to have what you are going to do and is another thing to…
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OLISA AGBAKOBA vs THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION & MINISTER FOR EDUCATION Olisa Agbakoba Legal filed a suit before a Federal High Court, Lagos, asking the court to stop the Federal Government from further using alleged discriminatory cut-off marks for admission into Unity Schools across the nation. Olisa Agbakoba asked the court to declare…
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Press Release Day by Day, hour by hour, there is increasingly a palpable fear, amidst a clash of hate language by the politicians, about the Elections. We feel called upon to warn of the looming dangers and the need to avoid the potential cataclysmic eclipse. Our politicians are exploiting our diversities to satisfy their lust…
DetailsPlease find below a copy of the letter sent to each of the party chairman of the PDP and APC political parties on the above subject. ************************************************************************************* January 8, 2015 Dear Distinguished Party Chairman, SETTING A NATIONAL ORDER FOR NIGERIA INTRODUCTION The 2015 Elections will be critical to the future of Nigeria as a Nation…
DetailsMrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Minister for Finance & Coordinating Minister of the Economy Federal Ministry of Finance Abuja Honourable Minister, GENERATION OF REVENUE FROM NON-OIL SECTOR OF THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY Your welcome statement that Nigerians should henceforth view the country as a non-oil producing nation and explore other sources of revenue as a result of the…
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A Federal High Court in Lagos has entered judgement in favour of an application by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, seeking uniform admission requirements into Federal Government Colleges, otherwise called unity schools. Agbakoba had sued the Minister of Education, Mr. Ibrahim Shekarau, over the disparity in the admission requirements for students seeking…
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Posted on: Oct 31 2014 The Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the Nigerian Army to stay the execution of the death sentence passed by an Army General Court-Martial against 12 Nigerian Soldiers. The Order was made on Tuesday, October 28, 2014, by Honourable Justice Kolawole, in a Fundamental Rights Case filed by Dr.Olisa Agbakoba…
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