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Dr Lanre Fagbohun, is an Associate Professor of Law. He started his career with the law Firm of Bayo Kehinde & Co., (SAN) from where he moved to Yomi Oshikoya & Co., where he rose to become Head of Chambers. He also lectures (undergraduate and post-graduate students) at the Faculty of Law, Lagos State University (LASU).
His areas of specialization include Oil & Gas, drafting of EPIC Contracts, |
Environmental Law, Company and Commercial Law, Foreign Investment Law and International Tax Law.He has co-edited several books amongst which is a 25 Chapter book on “Environmental Law and Policy” and another 31 Chapter book on “Development and Reforms, Nigeria’s Commercial Laws.” He has published topical and contemporary articles in learned journals in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, South Africa, India and Nigeria. He has also facilitated projects for the British Council and acted as Resource Person for the United Nations Development Programme and the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Dr. Fagbohun is a member of Nigerian Bar Association, Nigerian Association of Law Teachers, International Bar Association, Association of International Petroleum Negotiators and a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminars, Austria. |
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Professor Bababunmi Enitan PhD, DSc (London), FRCPath (UK), President, ENHICA international & Director, ENHICA- Research (USA). He is the Inventor of two United States patents and consultant to the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. Bababunmi is well-known and established investigator who has worked |
| successfully on cancer research activities in highly-rated laboratories including, the National Cancer institute (Rockefeller Foundation Fellow) and, as a UICC-ICRETT Fellow at the laboratory of DR Charles Heidelberger at Kenneth Norris cancer center, University of Southern California. A major scientific contribution of Dr Bababunmi has been the provision of evidence that P-Type ion-Motive ATPases, such as SERCA is a useful marker and diagnostic tool in TUMOR PROMOTION. This fact is currently being exploited for the design of candidate drugs for novel treatment in Childhood Cancers, especially LEUKEMIA. This particular discovery was accomplished during his tenure as “America Cancer Society-Eleanor Roosevelt – UICC Professional Fellow to the University of Liverpool (UK) Department of Tropical Pediatrics. |
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NDIDI BOWEI, is a female law graduate; she was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1991 and has practiced law (civil litigation) for over eight years before she became a human rights lawyer in the year 2000. She has since then been working in the non-governmental sector undertaking proposal development and project implementation, research projects, human rights litigation, programs coordination, |
supervision and implementation on women’s rights, issues of health, HIV/AIDS and environmental health.
She has worked with Social and Economic Rights Action Center (SERAC) Ilupeju, Lagos, Nigeria as Senior Legal Officer for over three years undertaking human rights litigation, HIV/AIDS community and capacity building programs, and coordinating their Legal Action Program Network (LAPNET) and Environment for Life Project. With SERAC she also undertook a fact-finding mission to the Niger Delta in Nigeria under which she undertook a Research on Oil and the Niger Delta- perpetuating Poverty Consolidating Powerlessness in June 2003.
She has also worked in conjunction with the Human Rights Centre of the University of Pretoria, South Africa on a research project on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, as country representative for Nigeria – a study conducted in collaboration with the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)..
She is conversant with African and International human rights instruments and mechanism and participated in sessions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. She has partnered with INTERIGHTS, London, and U.K to support the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights’ promotional activity to promote and protect economic and social rights under the African Charter. Her study of the status of the right to health/HIV/AIDS and access to life saving medications in Africa culminated in her collaborative effort to support the organization of the African Commission’s Seminar on social and economic rights held in Pretoria, South Africa on September 13-17, 2004, where she presented a paper on “HIV/AIDS & the Right of Access to Treatment in Africa.
The Institute for Human Rights Development in Africa [IHRDA] in the Gambia partnered with her on issues of human rights litigation, and she has participated severally at the institute’s Human Rights Litigation workshops as participant and resource person between 2002 and 2005.
She has attended and facilitated training programs, seminars, press conferences and workshops in Nigeria, Africa and Europe on issues such as human rights, HIV/AIDS, Malaria/Vector control and women’s rights. She was also a human rights intern for three months with INTERIGHTS, London, U.K where she worked on, women’s rights, HIV/AIDS, European social charter, Human Rights Training/Advocacy/Litigation and Environmental rights in 2005.
She also worked with Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), based in Geneva Switzerland as Coordinator of its COHRE -Africa housing rights Project for one year, undertaking fact-finding missions in four West African countries (Nigeria, the Gambia, Senegal, and Sierra-Leone) and also in Morocco and Western Sahara where she implemented the project. She has written series of papers on the rights of the child, human rights, HIV/AIDS, women’s rights, health and environmental rights.
She has also written monitoring and evaluation reports on various projects.
She currently works as the Executive Director of International Center for Environmental Health and Development a Non-Governmental Organization that undertakes health and environmental education, research, HIV/AIDS programs(education, research, empowerment, support and mitigation), advocacy for healthy environment and community development, provision of clean drinking water (bore-hole projects) for communities, vocational training for the development of women, and capacity building for the over-all development of children. She coordinates all programs and defends the rights of the vulnerable and marginalized sections of the Nigerian society such as women, children and people living positively. |
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Professor Ademola Popoola, Professor of International Law and Dean, Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ile. |
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Huzi Mshelia, Partner in Huzi & Associates and Executive Director Clean Energy Initiative.
He is presently leading the team for the development of policy framework in respect of climate change in Nigeria. |
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Oludayo Amokaye, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law and Policy Development, University of Lagos.
A former UN Research Fellow on Climate Change and author of Environmental Law and Practice in Nigeria. |
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Prof. Chidi Oguamanam, is the Managing Editor, Nigeria Journal of Environmental Law & Policy (NJELP) Environmental Law Research Institute’s journal.
Prof. Oguamanam is an Associate Professor of Law. He started his career with the law Firm of Chris Ogunbanjo & Co., (SAN) from where he rose to Acting Head, |
Intellectual property Unit before he moved to Canada in 1999.
He is presently The Director, Law and Technology Institute, Dalhousie Law School and Assistant Professor, Dalhousie Law School, Canada.
His area of specialization include international law, indigenous law, intellectual property, plant diversity and traditional medicine, Genetic Contamination and Intellectual property rights, patents and traditional medicine and dialectics of knowledge transformation. He edited and co-edited several books amongst which is International Law and Indigenous Knowledge: Intellectual Property, plant biodiversity and traditional medicine (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006). He has published topical and contemporary articles in learned journals in USA, Nigeria, United Kingdom and Canada.
Prof, Oguamanam is a member of Nigerian Bar Association, Nova Scotia Barrister’s Society, Canada Association of Law Teachers and fellow Canada Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethics of Health Research & Policy. |
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