UNILAG Don, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi Selected as Member of UN Spotlight Initiative Global Reference Group
Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, a Senior Lecturer at Faculty of Law and Director, Centre for Human Rights, University of Lagos, has been nominated for United Nations Spotlight Initiative Global Reference Group between 2024 and 2026. Following a rigorous evaluation of 140 applications, the UNILAG don and Founder, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC), was selected as one of seventeen (17) members of the Spotlight Initiative Global Reference Group. Her selection is in recognition of her […]
NICN President Advocates Caution in Labour/Work-Related Adjudications
The President of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, Justice Benedict Bawaph Kanyip, OFR has charged stakeholders in the judiciary on the need for caution in adjudications over labour/work-related matters. Delivering the 2024 Annual Lecture in memory of Professor Anthony Adeyemi Adeogun on Thursday, June 27, 2024 at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Justice Kanyip raised concerns over what he termed an identity crisis of the Nigerian Labour Law and its applicability either as […]
Professor Oni Emphasizes Estate Planning Mechanisms as a Panacea to Solving Inheritance Tales
A Professor of Private and Property Law, University of Lagos, Babatunde Adetunji Oni, SAN has emphasized the importance of estate planning as a panacea to modernise and strengthen the trust systems to resolve inheritance issues in Nigeria. He gave the recommendation during the 8th Inaugural Lecture of the University in the 2023/2024 academic as all the stars aligned in front of a fully-packed audience at the J. F Ade-Ajayi Auditorium. The event which was a […]
Legal Experts Advocate Involvement of Antigraft Agencies in Contractual Process
The need to preserve the quality and integrity of public institutions, importance of patriotism and high sense of responsibility among representatives of public institutions; and involvement of antigraft agencies in all contractual processes of government formed the crux of the Dialogue on the Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) versus the Federal Republic of Nigeria case. Organised by the Department of Commercial and Industrial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos (UNILAG), the hybrid Dialogue was […]
Faculty of Law, UNILAG Hosts Final Round of Data Protection Moot Court Competition
It was a day of “Your Excellencies”, and “locus standi” at the final round of the 2nd National Data Protection Moot Court Competition hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Friday, December 15, 2023. According to Dr. Akinola Akintayo, an expert in human rights and emerging technologies regulation & governance and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, UNILAG, seventeen (17) universities across Nigeria registered for the competition. Out of this […]
