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  • Chartered Arbitrators welcome 233 at investiture, awards

    The Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators (NICArb) has welcomed 233 new Fellows (FCArb), Members (MCArb) and Associates (ACArb) at its yearly investiture and awards.

    The ceremony, which held at the Eko Hotels and Suites in Lagos, also featured the conferment of awards in various categories.

    Guests and speakers at the event included the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen, among other Justices of the Supreme Court (JSC), Court of Appeal (JCA) High Court Judges, magistrates and members of the inner and outer Bar among other non-judicial professionals.

    Onnoghen, who spoke on the theme: Rising cost of arbitration fees: a potential threat to arbitration practice, said the topic was timely because of the rising number of Nigerians are embracing the mechanism as an alternative to court proceedings.

    The CJN urged arbitrators to reduce their fees so as to encourage even more converts.

    He said: “If the cost of arbitration fees is high, the purpose of the institution will be a mirage.

    “The recent paradigm shift from litigation to arbitration is predicated on the impression that arbitration is less costly than litigation and this is one of the economic advantages of the mechanism.”

    The new fellows are: JSC Justice Sidi Bage, JCA Justice Nonyerem Okoronkwo, Oyo State Chief Judge (CJ) Justice Munta Abimbola, Edo State CJ Justice Esohe Ikponmwen, Justice Ada Ehigiamuose, Justice Esther Edigin, Justice Benedict Kanyip, Justice Abba Mohammed, Justice Ohimai Ovbiagele, Justice Udobong Thomas, Justice Stephen Pam, Justice Dalami Senchi, Justice Chukwu Ndukwe, Justice Nsemeke Daniel, Justice Eniola Fabamwo, and Justice Ebele Egumgbe.

    Others are: Prof Joseph Igwe, Dr Bolanle Afolabi, Dr Livy Uzoukwu SAN, Dr Onyechi Ikpeazu SAN, Chief Connie-Jean Aremu SAN, Mr Ndukwe Nnawuchi SAN, Mr Sylvester Elema SAN, Mr Nasser Dangiri SAN,  Mr Adewuyi Adeyemo.

    They also include: Prof Chioma Agomo, Prof Elisabeta Olarinde, Prof Fabamise Thaddeus, Prof Funso Falade, Mr Chukwemeka Ibeziako, Mr Sigismund Joseph, Mr Ejike Ezenwa, Dr Olugbenga Peter Faseluka, Dr Kathleen Ebelechukwu Okafor, Dr Julius A. N. Elukpo, Mrs Funmi Falana and Mrs Shola Oshodi-John.

    NICArb Vice President Prof Fabian Ajogwu expressed delight that  new members had been inducted in different categories.

    Ajogwu said: “We take pride in seeing that ours is a truly indigenous institute in promoting arbitration and ADR in Nigeria, especially homegrown disputes that can be resolved here, to grow capacity.

    “So, you see we are widely drawn from law, engineering, quantity surveying, architecture and across the judiciary who would retire and be practitioners.

    “We try to build this capacity knowing that there’s a lot that this country can offer, instead of just exporting all of our arbitration, doing it in England down to people who sell tea and coffee during arbitration will be not from here. That is not how to create jobs.”

    The event also featured prize conferment on NICArb 2018 training Programme winners.

    NICARB Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, Shola Oshodi-John, urged the media not to relent in spreading the good news of arbitration as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism.

  • CIIN holds investiture tomorrow

    The Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) will tomorrow install Lady Isioma Chukwuma, the Managing Director of Nigeria Re insurance Plc, as its  47th President.

    The investiture will hold at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos at 1 pm.

    It will be chaired by Chief Ade Ojo, Chairman, Elizade Motors and Custodian and Allied Insurance Plc.

    The theme of Lady Chukwuma’s presidency is: Consolidating the gains of the industry for national economic growth.

    Lady Chukwuma, a reinsurer succeed Bola Temowo, a loss adjuster. Chairman of the Presidential Investiture Committee, Fatai Lawal, said the theme is borne out of the need to consolidate on the gains the institute has made during the tenures of  former presidents.

    He said Lady Chukwuma aims to achieve the objectives of her theme by situating the CIIN on the global stage, upscaling collaboration with CII, United Kingdom, promoting insurance awareness by increasing the visibility of insurance through publications in the print medium and pay courtesy visits to the newspaper houses.

    According to him, she also intend to follow-up on the recognition to CIIN Certificate by the Head of Service (HOS) of the Federation, renew pursuit of training of insurance teachers,  achieve wider coverage in the presentation and distribution of the institute’s sponsored insurance textbook for senior secondary schools, completion of institute’s Exams Syllabus Review.

    Other ways she intend to achieve her aim is to commence of work in the institute’s Victoria Island property, pursue extending the institute’s professionals to countries in West and East and Central African sub-regions, including Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Kenya, Uganda, and Zimbabwe and promote members’ benefits.

    Lady Chukwuma is Deputy President of the institute. She has served the institute in various capacities over the years and has remained committed to the institute’s cause since her election into the institute’s Governing Council in 1999.

    Born in her home town of Asaba in Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State and qualified as Associate of Chartered Insurance Institute, London in 1990, Lady Chukwuma joined Nigerian Reinsurance Corporation in 1980. She rose through the ranks till she was appointed helmsman in 2009.

     

     

  • Family celebrates 84-year bond

    Family celebrates 84-year bond

    In a world of increasing individualism and gradual destruction of family values, the celebration of a family reunion is worthy of focus, particularly when it is the 84th edition of the event. The Jibolu-Taiwo Family of Egbaland in Ogun State, on August 2-3 not only held its annual reunion, which is called Ajoyo,  but also installed 87-year-old Mrs. Yewande Orewande Januario as its Olori Ebi, family head.  She succeeded Mrs. Christiana Ibijoke Oladeinde who died in March. Januario was elected by the family’s Central Executive Committee and was formally decorated in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The Jibolu-Taiwo Family of Egbaland has active branches in the UK and the USA, where family members also celebrate Ajoyo in August.

    Januario, whose family background has remarkable historical aspects, stands out as the oldest old girl of the Queen’s College, Lagos, who is still attending alumnae meetings. Her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Winifred Olatokunboh Macaulay, was the daughter of the late Rev R. A. Coker; and she was married to Frank Gurney Venn Macaulay, son of Rev Thomas Babington Macaulay, founder and first principal of CMS Grammar School, Lagos, and grandson of the late Bishop Ajayi Crowther.  Januario’s father was the late Major Akinwande Tom-Jones of the Salvation Army, son of the famous Lagos merchant, the late Tom Jones, and her mother was Mrs. Phillipa Oreoluwa Jones, daughter of Frank Gurney Venn Macaulay, who was the brother of Herbert Macaulay, the illustrious Nigerian nationalist.

    After her secondary education in 1945, she was employed as a cub reporter by the Daily Times and she covered the Courts for the newspaper.  She left journalism to train as a nurse because she felt that female journalists were hardly recognised at the time. She retired as Chief Health Visitor in Lagos in 1982 after 35 years of meritorious service.

    She is respected for her passion for family unity even at the risk of her health, which is demonstrated by the fact that she has maintained links with the various strands of her roots, namely, Jibolu-Taiwo Aderupoko Family of Egbaland, Crowther-Macaulay Family, Tom-Jones Family and Smith/Lambo/Sogbetun Family of Egbaland.  Also, despite her advanced age, she remains an active member of the Cathedral Church of Christ, Marina, Lagos, and the Methodist Church of the Trinity, Tinubu, Lagos.

    At her investiture, she made thought-provoking remarks on the subject of family unity. She said: “Over the ages, love and respect has been the mainstay of the family passed down by practical examples to this celebration of the 84th reunion, Ajoyo, of the family worldwide since 1930. With love and understanding, the family bond will be continually strengthened for generations to come.”

    The theme of this year’s celebration was “I have a goodly heritage (Psalm 16:6)”; and the two-day programme included children’s rally, youth forum, annual general meeting, installation of the new Olori Ebi, business meeting and thanksgiving service.

     

  • Ksm to conduct investiture for 200 knights

    The Lagos Metropolitan Council of the Order of the Knights of St Mulumba (KSM), Nigeria, is hosting the investiture of Knights and Ladies into the third degree of the Order on Sunday 3rd February 2013.

    About 200 men and women of the Order, having been found eligible for the elevation will formally assume the rank after ceremonies during Holy Mass on Sunday 3rd February, at Saints Philip’s and James’ Catholic Church Lekki, under the direction of the Metropolitan Grand Knight Sir Patrick Ikemefuna with Monsignor Professor Francis Ogunmodede, Dean of the Lekki deanery of the Lagos Archdiocese as the Chief Celebrant.

    The Order of Knights of St Mulumba is a Catholic Action group of over 12,000 persons from each part of the 54 Catholic Dioceses in Nigeria and in Uganda and the Cameroons. It was founded in 1953 by the Catholic priest and monk, late Reverend Fr Abraham Ojefua, for the spiritual development of Catholic faithful and the cause of charity in action. They are agents of Hope, Faith and Charity. KSM is a member of the International Alliance of Catholic Knights with affiliations all over the world.’’