Our Associate Nosa Garrick recently spoke at the Legal Symposium organised by the Section on Business Law Club, Faculty of Law, University of Benin. The event was themed: “Raising the bar: The future of Law Students in the Legal Profession. Nosa spoke on the topic “The what, the why and the how of Intellectual Property […]
Our Senior Associate/ Head of Maritime unit, Dr Oluwole Akinyeye was a guest lecturer at the ABCs of Shipping training programme organised by the Nigerian Chamber of Shipping on the 11th of March 2019. Dr Wole’s lecture was titled: Cabotage: A Review of the challenges and prospects. Also present at the event was our associate, Caroline Tokulah-Oshoma.
Our Senior Associate/ Head of Sports, Entertainment and Technology (SET) Practice, Beverley Agbakoba-Onyejianya was recently honoured and presented with an award by the Friends of the Creator Artistic Foundation for her contributions to sports and intellectual property law in Nigeria. She was among the list of top sports personalities and brands honoured in Lagos at the […]
Health tech in Nigeria, just like the general healthcare sector, is in a precarious state. It is evident that the government’s healthcare plan is not only under-resourced but largely overwhelmed and incapable of meeting the needs of millions of people, not just in the urban areas, but also in the most remote parts of the […]
Olisa Agbakoba Legal(OAL) announced that Bisi Akodu has been appointed Managing Partner. Bisi succeeds Priscilla Ogwemoh, who stepped down as Managing Partner after serving with distinction in that capacity for over 20 years. The Firm also elevated Associate Partners, Babatunde Ogungbamila, Victor Akazue Nwakasi and Adebola Sobowale as Substantive Partners with effect from February 1, […]
The Federal Inland Revenue Service has intensified its drive to recover outstanding tax liabilities from taxpayers in default of tax obligations. To this end, FIRS has been writing to taxpayers’ bankers, appointing the banks’ agent of the banks’ customer, to collect outstanding tax liabilities from the taxpayers’ bank account balance. This is referred to as […]
