Olubor Uyi Esq.

THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY ACT (PIA), A VEHICLE FOR THE REVOLUTION OF THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY (the first series)~  by Olubor Uyi Esq. For the best part of the last two decades. The Nigerian Legislature has tried effortlessly to revitalize the Petroleum industry by trying to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). However, this bill has continually been hindered, either due to legislative filibustering or constitutional impediments on passing of Legislative bills. However, this year the National Assembly passed the PIB which was finally assented by the President. The PIA aims at promoting transparency, good governance and accountability in the administration of petroleum resources in Nigeria. This is one major reason the National Assembly via the PIA decided to unbundle the Nigeria National Petroleum Commission (NNPC) into the Upstream commission which will be responsible for the governance of the upstream Operations and the Midstream and Downstream Authority who would oversee the midstr...

RE-INJECTION OF LOOTED AND REPATRIATED FUNDS: INTERNATIONAL TREATIES VS DOMESTIC LAWS Since Nigeria's return to independence, one issue that has been a recurring decimal is the frequent discovery of looted funds stashed away in offshore accounts by political leaders. The repatriation and utilisation of these funds has always been a serious issue of debate. As most often than not, the repatriating entity during negotiations would always insist on a clause that the funds should be applied on a specific project to ensure transparency and also ensure that the repatriated funds can be monitored in order for it not to be re-looted. Over the years, the Federal Government of Nigeria has entered into these kind of arrangements with repatriating countries. However, these clauses has caused a lot of problems, especially between the Federal Government of Nigeria and its federating units. Some weeks ago, the 36 Attorney-Generals of the federating units brought the Federal Government before the ...

THE RIGHT OF NIGERIAN CITIZENS  TO QUIT THE CORPORATE UNION Following the arrest of Chief Sunday Igboho (the leader of the Yoruba Nation movement) in the République of Bénin and the arrest and continuation of the trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (the leader of of IPOB), an existential discourse as being thrown into the public. Do the citizens of Nigeria have a right to determine their continuous involvement in the corporate existence of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Many lawyers have sighted article 20 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Right ACHPR, claiming it bestows the right on citizens of Nigeria to seek for self-determination. Now, let us analyze the various extant laws that deal with the corporate existence of Nigeria and possible consequences for trying to balkanize it. First of all, let's take a look at the ACHPR. The ACHPR, in its  aboriginal state it's an international treaty, which ordinarily by operation of section 12 of the 1999 Constitution should not b...