Nigerian is one of Africa’s largest producers of Oil and Gas; how has this impacted Nigeria’s legal sector?

Unarguably, Nigeria is Africa’s largest producer of Oil and the seventh largest producer worldwide; but unfortunately for the greater part of the last four decades the Oil & Gas sector in Nigeria has been dominated by major International Oil companies with large numbers of expatriate personnel and sundry service providers rendering services in respect of the various Oil & Gas projects in the country. However, with the enactment of the Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010, the panorama has tweaked as the policy thrust of the Act is to domesticate a significant portion of economic derivatives of the Oil and Gas Industry, by encouraging the development and deliberate utilization of Nigerian human and material resources in the sector. Thus, the extant legislative regime has positively impacted the legal sector as specific provisions of the Act require operators to utilize local legal services, inter alia, in their project implementation.

Interview with Barr. Ebere Nwokoro

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