Prof Abiola Sanni
Abiola Sanni is a highly accomplished legal professional and esteemed academic who specializes in
Arbitration, Taxation, and Commercial Law. As a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and a Professor of
Commercial Law at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), his expertise and experience in providing
consultancy services in these areas are unparalleled.
With a career spanning over two decades, Abiola Sanni has made significant contributions to the
field of law and academia. He began his teaching career at Obafemi Awolowo University in 1991
before transferring to UNILAG in 1999. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious Fulbright
Fellowship, during which he conducted research as a Research Fellow of the Institute of International
Law and Policy at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.
Abiola Sanni holds a Doctorate degree in Commercial Law (Taxation) from the University of Lagos
and was appointed as an Associate Professor in 2013. In 2016, he achieved the remarkable distinction of being appointed as a Professor of Commercial Law and the occupier of a Professorial Chair endowed by Lagos State in the University of Lagos for the Advancement of Taxation and Fiscal Matters. This remarkable accomplishment has earned him the title of "a Double Professor."
In addition to his academic contributions, Abiola Sanni has authored and edited several influential publications in the field of law. He is the editor of
Introduction to Nigerian Legal Methods, widely known as "The Blue Bible" in Nigerian universities and the West African subregion. He is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Nigerian Revenue Law Reports (NRLR) and African Tax Law Reports (ATLR), the first law reports on tax cases in Nigeria and Africa, respectively.
Abiola Sanni's expertise and influence extend beyond the academic sphere. He is actively involved in professional organizations and committees, serving in various capacities for the Federal Government of Nigeria. He has been a member of the Tax Advisory Committee (TAC) "Think-Tank" Group for the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Chairman of the National Tax Policy Review Committee (NTPRC), and Chairman of the National Tax Policy Implementation Committee (NTPIC). He has also been a member of the Federal Government Fiscal Reform Committee and Tax
Advisory Committee, playing a key role in shaping tax policies and annual Finance Acts.
Beyond his professional achievements, Abiola Sanni is committed to sound corporate governance and holds positions as Chairman of the Board of Directors in several companies. He is actively engaged in social and sporting activities, maintaining a healthy work-life balance. With his extensive knowledge, academic excellence, and practical experience, Abiola Sanni is a thought leader and valuable asset for the consultancy outfit. His
expertise in Arbitration, Taxation, and Commercial Law, combined with his broad professional network and commitment to excellence, make him
an exceptional consultant for businesses seeking strategic legal advice and solutions.
Prof. Lukumon Adeoti
Lukumon Adeoti, Ph.D. is a Professor of Applied Geophysics with bias in Petroleum, Groundwater, Environmental, Engineering, Forensic, Agricultural, and Mining Activities. He is a staff of the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Science, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos. He has more than twenty years of working experience in both the public and private sectors. He has more than 70 publications in both national and international journals. He is a consultant to several Oil and Gas Companies. He has supervised successfully several BSc, MSc, and Ph. D. students who are now captains of the industries and renowned academicians in national and foreign Universities. He is a member of various academic and professional organisations such as American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Society of Exploration Geophysicist (SEG), Nigeria Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS), National Association Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE), Council Nigerian Mining Engineers and Geoscientists (COMEG), Society of Petrophysicists and Well Logging Analysts (SPWLA), Nigerian Environment Society (NES), Nigerian Geophysical Union(NGU), Nigerian Association of Exploration Geophysicist (NAEG) and Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Oil and Gas Research (FIOGR). He has presented his technical and research findings at various conferences mostly in the US, South Africa, Spain, Dubai, Nigeria, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia etc. He used to be a Regional Expert on Toolkit Training Applications to United Nations Industrial Development Organizations (UNIDO).
Prof. Adeoti has won many awards and honours. He has partaken in more than two hundred (200) Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) consultancy projects for many companies in Nigeria. He is the lead in Domestication of Building Codes in LAGOS.
Prof. Sunday Adebisi
Professor Sunday Abayomi Adebisi is a Professor of Entrepreneurship Hub and Strategic Management in the Department of Business Administration., University of Lagos, Nigeria. His research interests span through Entrepreneurship Hub Management, Innovation and Startup Enablement, Youth Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Employment Strategies, International Entrepreneurship and Business, as well as Sustainable Strategic Management and Comparative Strategy.
Over time, he has risen organically through the ranks from the post of a Graduate Assistant to his present status of becoming a double Professor in the Department of Business Administration,
University of Lagos. He recently emerged as the First Occupier-Professor of the Dr. Mike Adenuga (Jnr) Professorial Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies, the first of its kind in any Nigerian University, and also serves as the Director, of the Entrepreneurship and Skills Development Centre, University of Lagos, Nigeria in the last five years. This is in addition to the role he plays as Director, of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence for Unemployment and Skills Development (ARUA, CoE-USD) having won the hosting right for the center of excellence in 2019, thereby, making the University of Lagos to emerge as a Leader and Hub for research in Youth Unemployment and Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Africa. As a Director of the ARUA-CoE-USD, he was saddled with the task of implementing the Partnership, Research and Capacity Building for Youth Unemployment Solutions in Africa (PRAC-4-YUSA), a UKRIGCRF ARUA Capacity Building project supported with a Grant of GBP600, 000. The project, almost nearing completion, has made a
remarkable impact in creating sustainable solutions to the menace of youth unemployment in the Continent of Africa.
Professor ADEBISI has also led several innovative projects and research at the local and global stage. He was the Lead Researcher (Rocket Data Star) of the Regional Entrepreneurship Accelerated Program (REAP); an Entrepreneurship project of the University of Lagos in partnership with MIT, United States of America. He has about 50 journal articles in revered academic journals across the world. He also served as Project Manager and Research Advisor for the $500,000 Commercial Pilot of M(E)thanol Clean Cookstoves Project of the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) in Lagos, Nigeria, the first of its kind project in West Africa. He is a Scholar of the Soochow University China, and the 2014 British Academy of Management (BAM) Best Full Paper in Performance Management Award Winner. He also received the prestigious Award of the EFMD 2016 Best African Case in Berlin, Germany.
Prof. Franca Attoh
Prof. Franca Attoh is a specialist in irregular migration, Crime and Delinquency, Gender studies, Sociology of the family, Social Change, and Culture and heritage. Prof. Franca Attoh had a decade of experience in the private sector prior to joining the services of the University of Lagos in 2007. She has 67 publications in both national and international Journals and has co-edited three textbooks in sociology and terrorism. Her research spans the areas of human trafficking, intra-African migration, and spatial incidences of crime in-built and external environments. Prof. Attoh is a laureate of the Ford Foundation and CODESRIA in Dakar Senegal. She is an alumnus of the CODESRIA Gender
Institute, a member of the ASIS research committee, and a fellow of the Institute of Security Nigeria.
She has extensive experience in research and consultancy and has consulted for several organizations including the Early Warning System in ECOWAS, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the National Agency for the Prohibition of Human Trafficking and other related matters (NAPTIP), National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and Nigeria Police Force (NPF).
She is currently a Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Lagos, and the Ag. Head, Department of Sociology, University of Lagos, Nigeria.
Prof. Attoh pioneered the very essence of interdisciplinarity in her Department even as a junior faculty through her collaborations with Professor Olatunde Makanju, a psychologist, and former Dean Faculty of Social Sciences. She has collaborated and co-authored peer-reviewed articles with colleagues in Political Science, Economics and Social work. She is currently partnering with two colleagues in Engineering on a RESBEN Project on Urban Water Pollution.
Prof. Attoh's foray into the field of research has seen her working with colleagues at the University of Texas in Austin, and the University of Bayreuth in Germany which funded her recently concluded research on Migration and Xenophobia: Imperatives for African Integration. The need for internationalization of knowledge and co-creation of knowledge culminated in her working with colleagues at Joseph Kizebo University in Ouagadougou on terrorism in West Africa.
Prof. Franca Attoh, a former Editor of “Construction in Nigeria” has wide networks in the media space to aid the dissemination of research results with the hope that such would engender policy to create a better space for humanity.
