PROPERTY DISPUTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Network of African Women
Abiye Tam-George is an accredited Regional Attorney-Mediator with the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) for the International Financial Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank Group. She is a certified Mediator with the Lagos State Multi-Door Courthouse. A member distinguished panel of Neutrals LMDC. She is also an Arbitrator with the Lagos Court of Arbitration. Abiye has a PGD in Peace and Conflict Resolution. She is an astute mediation advocate and a motivational speaker. Her love for education has made her pioneer different seminars and workshops on educational advancement.
Abiye is a member of the Network of African Women in Conflict Prevention and Mediation (FernWise). She is skillful in strengthening the flow of communication between parties in mediation with outcomes that are lastingly impactful.
Abiye is the visionary-in-chief of ATG Legal, a cosmopolitan law firm with consulting legal practitioners, mediators, and Arbitrators. Her acclaimed community legal literacy project titled; Live.better.everyday offers free legal advice and counseling on various legal issues in communities and partners in different locations. It is also a digital program created to make sound, incontestable, accessible, and delightful legal advice and opinions to individuals, institutions, and governments.
Job Titles:
- Managing Solicitor of Trizon Law Chambers
Foluke Akinmoladun is the Managing Solicitor of Trizon Law Chambers, Lagos, Nigeria. She is a lawyer, a mediator, an arbitrator, and an accountant. Her work experience covers both domestic and international commercial legal matters. She is a member of the panel of neutrals of a number of arbitral institutions including the Lagos Multi-Door Court House, Nigeria.
She was once head of the secretariat of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre and participated in the first drafting of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre's Rules on arbitration and mediation. She has acted in various capacities in the arbitration process such as acting legal representative to parties at arbitral proceedings, acting as arbitral registrar, and as arbitrator.
She is a member of a number of professional bodies including the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators(UK), the Young International Arbitrators Group of London Court of International Arbitration (YIAG), a member of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre, and a member of its Panel of neutrals, member of Young ICCA (International Council for Commercial Arbitration) member, YAF-ICC (Young Arbitrators Forum of the International Chamber of Commerce) and Young ICSID (International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes-World Bank).
Foluke has worked as the lead rapporteur and co-rapporteur in international conferences on arbitration, commerce, and maritime. She has written articles on construction and arbitration matters and her articles have been published in both Nigerian and international publications. Some of her papers have been published in the International Chamber of Commerce Dispute Resolution Bulletin and in the Construction Law journal of the International Bar Association.
She is the current and pioneer Director-General of the African Ship-owners Association of Nigeria and is also a peer reviewer for ICSID (International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes-World Bank) journal coordinated by the University of Oxford. She is a member of the Presidential National Action Committee on Nigeria's readiness on the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (Transportation Stream) and was the moderator for the first of the workshop series of the Committee with stakeholders.
The young Sanni completed his secondary education at Community High School Ilado in 1986 and the Higher School Certificate at Federal School of Arts and Science, Victoria Island Lagos in 1989.
He graduated from Nigeria's Premier University, the University of Ibadan with an LL.B (Hons.) in Law, then proceeded to the Nigerian Law School and was called to the Nigerian Bar as a Solicitor and Advocate in October 2000. He is also an alumnus of the University of Lagos Akoka, where he obtained his LL.M in 2012, as well as the Micheal Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies MINILS, Ilorin, where he obtained the Advanced Certificate in Labour Relations ACILR in 2018. He completed his studies for a Masters's degree (M.Sc.) in Political Science with a specialization in International Relations at the University of Ibadan in October 2019.
A Lawyer, Administrator, Alternative Dispute Resolution practitioner, and Community Rights Advocate, Adewale had an opportunity to serve his community through a brief stint as the Secretary to the old Eti-Osa Local Government Council in 2002, a position he held for about seven months. He subsequently went back to active legal practice serving as both Associate, and Head of Chambers in different Law Firms in Lagos before becoming the Principal Attorney in the Law Firm of SANNI M.M.A AND CO (a firm of lawyers and ADR practitioners located in central Lagos) which he established in 2008.
Very passionate about Community affairs, he was involved (as the coordinator of the community's interest) in the agitation against the arbitrary tolling on the Eti-Osa Lekki Epe Expressway a few years ago and participated as a member of the Committee set up by the State Government to resolve the issues. He is the current President, Eti Osa Heritage Organisation, and a member of Eti-Osa Leaders of Thought.
Over the years, M.M.A SANNI has come to recognize and understand the importance and benefits of ADR to the Nigerian Legal System in particular, and the world at large. He, therefore, has developed keen interest in Mediation and Arbitration as veritable tools of conflict resolution locally and internationally. To this end, he has attended many local and international certificate courses and conferences on ADR. He is an active member of the NBA Lagos branch where he has served in various committees, and he is also the current Chairman of the Eti-Osa Lawyers' Forum. An Accredited Mediator of the Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse where he is also a member of the Panel of Neutrals, a member of the Panel of Neutrals of the Lagos Court of Arbitration LCA on Small Claims Arbitration, he is also a Neutral Facilitator of the Federal High Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre (FHCADRC). A member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, (MCIArb UK), and an Associate of the Standing Conference of Mediation Advocates, also in the UK.
Sanni is a Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management, MNIM, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, FCTI, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Loans and Risk Management, FCILRM, a Fellow of The Institute of Management Consultants, Nigeria, FIMC, as well as a Chartered Management Consultant, CMC.
He is a Life Fellow of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation.
He is married with children.
Ogbebor Osaretin Esq is a Barrister at Law, Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and also a registered Surveyor with over a decades experience in both fields.
He is the Managing Partner of Pich Solicitors, a law firm with offices at Ikeja, Lagos State. His area of interest is strictly land matters, which he has been successfully engaged at the High Courts and the Appellate courts in Nigeria.
From his two professional worlds, he has been able to recognize the assets and the liabilities in both professions and how they can complement one another to get better. He has reviewed the curriculum of Surveying and Geo-informatics in Nigeria, to include law courses that are relevant to the study and the practice of Surveying. He is working with the relevant authorities in ensuring that this is adopted in the higher institutions of learning in Nigeria.
He has presented several academic and professional papers in both fields. He is a consultant to several government, corporate, and private institutions on issues bothering on the two fields.
He is a member of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors, the Nigerian Bar Association and the International Bar Association.
He is happily married to Damilola, a Certified National Accountant and they are blessed with lovely children.
His hobbies are researching and traveling.
Job Titles:
- Chief
- Owner
- Founder and Principal Partner of Prince Joel & Associates
Prince Onwenieke Williams-Joel popularly known as Prince Joel is the founder and principal partner of Prince Joel & Associates. The law firm is a digital knowledge-driven, a full business firm with cognitive, global appraisal and utilizes the latest digitalized spheres of business and legislation to promote its clientele needs. His core areas of interest are Commercial Transactions, Real Estate & Infrastructural Development, Immigration & Trade Investment, Advisory Services, Digital law, Cross Border Transactions, Regulatory and Compliance related matters, Expatriate Management Services and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
The firm can best be described as an International Law Firm with a partnership with qualified Attorneys from different jurisdictions: China, US, UK, and Europe and they work outbound and inbound. The firm has a network of 40 Lawyers in Nigeria who work independently from different parts of the country, each specializing in an area of law while retaining some as in house counsels. As a cerebral lawyer, he is currently the Managing Partner at Prince Joel & Associates with Head office situated at Lekki, Lagos State, and offices in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Owerri, Akwa Ibom, and Asaba all in Nigeria. The firm also has correspondent offices in the United Kingdom, China, the United States of America, and Europe.
Prince Joel is the Owner and Chief Editor of the Legal Blog: www.ibejulekkilawyer.com, and the following online platforms: www.immigrationlawyernigeria.com, www.onlinesmelegalsupport.com.ng.
Prince Joel is a Legal Entrepreneur to the core, a coach, and a trainer. He runs 24 hours, 7 days a week online based law services for SME's called 24/7 Online SME Legal Support, (www.onlinesmelegalsupport.com.ng) with a network of over 40 lawyers, each specializing in an area of law. He offers Real Online legal services. He is the initiator and torchbearer of the Nigeria Immigration Clinic, which holds every week in his Lagos office and hopes to extend the same to Port Harcourt and Abuja soon.
Prince Joel is the Owner and Chief Editor of the Legal Blog: www.ibejulekkilawyer.com, and the following online platforms: www.immigrationlawyernigeria.com, www.onlinesmelegalsupport.com.ng.
Prince Joel is a Legal Entrepreneur to the core, a coach, and a trainer. He runs 24 hours, 7 days a week online based law services for SME's called 24/7 Online SME Legal Support, (www.onlinesmelegalsupport.com.ng) with a network of over 40 lawyers, each specializing in an area of law. He offers Real Online legal services. He is the initiator and torchbearer of the Nigeria Immigration Clinic, which holds every week in his Lagos office and hopes to extend the same to Port Harcourt and Abuja soon.
Through his Law firm, he organizes yearly Business/Trade Missions to different parts of the world. He also facilitates Seminars and Round Table Discussions on Evolving investment opportunities in Nigeria and Promotes Ease of Doing Business in Nigeria. This he does across cities in the World. Prince Joel stands out in the legal industry in Nigeria, for his foray and a deep interest in the use of cutting-edge and modern technology in solving the needs of his clients and creating a window for them to access relevant legal information with a click of the button, be it advisory services on genuine land/property acquisition in Nigeria, to Corporate immigration Services and other areas of practice as shown in the firm's website www.princejoelandassociates.com.
Prince Joel has attended several short pieces of training and courses locally and internationally. In November 2018, he received a recognition award from the British Nigeria Law Forum for his INNOVATION IN LAW. He is a member of Nigeria Bar Association, International Bar Association, The Nigeria British Chamber of Commerce, British Nigeria Law Forum, IR Global Professionals, AEA International Lawyers Network, Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce, Lagos Chamber of Commerce, and a Life member of Junior Chamber International. (JCI). He has received several recognition Awards in JCI for his selfless service to Humanity. He is the author of the bestselling Real Estate book: Compilation of Articles on Law and Property in Nigeria: Simplified.
Currently, he is the founder and pioneer of property dispute management services. A specialized property dispute mediation center. The first of its kind in Nigeria. Here he will bring to bear his over a decade experience in property specialization alongside a team of well-versed property mediators to proffer solutions to any kind of dispute arising from any form of a property relationship.