[size=18pt]Bayo Ojo elected 1st Nigerian to UK arbitrators’ institute[/size]


FORMER Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bayo Ojo, has become the first Nigerian to be elected as Africa’s representative to the United Kingdom’s Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Ojo is currently Nigeria’s representative at the International Law Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, an arm of the United Nations.
He is also seeking the ticket of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party {PDP} to run for governor in Kogi State.

The Institute’s Director of Administration, Ms Claire Hughes, in an electronic mail, announced Ojo’s election through a congratulatory message.

News of Ojo’s election as the Trustee for Africa for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK, filtered in in the early hours of Friday, throwing the legal community in the country into jubilation.

Regarded as one of the leading lights of Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution in Nigeria, Ojo defeated Justice Charles Kajimanga of Kenya for the only slot available to Africa.

The former AGF had been the head of the Institute in Nigeria and the West African representative of The Netherland based Foundation For International Commercial Arbitration (SICA/FICA).

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/12228-bayo-ojo-elected-1st-nigerian-to-uk-arbitrators-institute

Now this is what I like to hear.

Congrats.

However, I'd not recommend PDP.

Bayo Ojo was OBJ's boy.I hope he will move to a more progressive Party

Laudable achievement, but I disliked his last days as the attorney general.

Prof. Fidelis Oditah QC SAN was the first Nigerian to be what you all are shouting here about. He is simply a quiet man.  His member of the same institute as well as a member of International Commercial Arbitration body.

Practices commercial and public law in England and Nigeria. He is a Queen’s Counsel in England and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), a Visiting Professor of Corporate Finance and Corporate Insolvency Law at Oxford University, and a member of the Court of the London Court of International Arbitration. He has acted in the past as a consultant to UNCITRAL. He is an experienced arbitrator and acts regularly as arbitrator and counsel in international commercial arbitration under both institutional and ad hoc rules.
Details of his qualifications and experience can be found at www.southsquare.com. and www.oditah.com


Stop blowing hot air jo.