Okechukwu Okoro

Lawyer

@LFC proud supporter. Likes & RT ≠ endorsement.

[Okechukwu Okoro @okejinka]

I'm a Commercial Dispute Resolution Attorney with a passion for Capital Markets, and International Trade & Investment Law.
Here to share insights, learn, and connect with professionals shaping law, finance, and global business. ⚖️🌍

[Jack @Jackkk]

Shaquille O’Neal explains why he stopped showing off his money

“When I first bought my house, it was 25,000 square feet. I made it 70,000 square feet to let everybody know this was my house”

“One summer I came back and a guy down the street had a 90,000 square foot house. Another guy around the corner had a 130,000 square foot house. I'm asking everybody, ‘Who are these guys?’ Nobody knows”

“Once I realized that, I stopped talking about what I'm doing and what I'm making cause if they don't do it, why are we doing it?”

“I finally figured out who it was, he’s the owner of Time Shares. I went in his house and he made my crib look like an apartment complex”

“I changed my mentality. I'm just going to go about my business without telling everybody what I'm doing”

[Anna Bjerde @bjerde_anna]

Five years ago, this was a pineapple field. Today, Benin's Glo-Djigbé Industrial Zone employs 25,000 people in textiles, cashews, and ceramics.

The highlight was meeting young workers whose first jobs are already opening doors to bigger opportunities.

[Sir J (J9) @SirJarus]

How opportunities move around circles

Let me cite an example (true life chain of events that happened to me and my circle)

1. In 2008, I got a job in Company X

2. I met a guy there (let's call him A). He was a contract staff. He had been there before me but he was a contract staff, so earning lower than me, a full staff. He taught me some things - raising journal, company ERP use etc

2. In 2009, while in office, I overheard my HR officer say she needed a good chartered accountant to fill a role. I spoke to her that I had a few chartered accountants in my circle. I called them. They sent their CVs to me. One was picked after interviews. Let's call him B.

3. B became my colleague in that company from 2009. He was also my room mate in OAU.

4. A year later, 2010. They needed another accountant. B submitted CV of another guy (let's call him C). He was his classmate in Ife. He was invited for interview. He passed.

5. By 2010, three of us from the same 2006 set in OAU (me, B and C) were in same department in that company. All first class. All chartered accountant.

6. Later in 2010, there was another vacancy in that department. B submitted the CV of D, also an old friend from OAU, but a year our senior. He was invited for interview, passed and got the job. We became 4 OAU guys in that department by 3rd year of first person (me) getting in.

6. In October 2011, while in office, I saw an advert in Guardian for a role in another company (let's call it Company Y). I sought my old buddy A's advice and he encouraged me to apply. If relevant, I got married in same 2011, earlier in the year, and A traveled from Lagos to Ilorin to attend. My childhood friend that was meant to be my bestman got stuck on the road and he stepped in as bestman on that day.

7. Long story short. I got the job and resumed in the new company in 2012.

8. In 2014, an email was sent in my company (Company Y) that they needed to fill some roles and staff were encouraged to refer solid candidates. My buddy - A, still a contract staff in Company X ticked the boxes for one of the roles in terms of experience and qualification. I quickly valled him to send his CV and pushed his CV to HR.

9. He was interviewed and got the job. Permanent staff. 4X his contract staff in Company X.

10. There was another opening in 2017 or thereabouts and I submitted D's CV. He was interviewed but he didn't get the job. Someone else from same Company X - but not within our immediate circle - got it.

11. I quit Company Y in 2022.

12. Founded a real estate company later. B was my 6th customer in my real estate business. The contract staff that was earning less than 150k before 2014. And the guy that taught me how to raise journal.

Everyone here (me, B, C, D) finished from OAU and were friends of sorts from university. Only A, the contract staff I met there, didn't. All five people in this narration are also chartered accountants. 3 of the 5 also made first class.

Solid CVs make things easy.

This is how circles work.

When you see graduates of UNILAG dominating a department or a company, this is how it works - information share. Outside graduate trainee roles, many jobs are not advertised. Information just circulates.

[Márcia Azevedo 🇧🇷 @MarciaOficialBR]

@FabrizioRomano @MickyJnr__

[Sofia khatun @sofia3973]

The only 3 types of cardio you need to lose fat.

1. Walking

[Okechukwu Okoro @okejinka]

@Mazi_Ifenna Jesus Christ,

Please accept my condolences Damizy.

This is painful.

[Tobenna Erojikwe @TobennaErojikwe]

ENDORSEMENT OF LATEEF OMOYEMI AKANGBE, SAN, FOR THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION

Having contested and having seen, from the inside, what the office requires - the clarity of thought, the discipline of execution, the independence of mind, and the sheer stamina to serve almost 200,000 lawyers across over 128 branches - I believe I am in a position to assess, with a candour that only experience permits, who among the current candidates possesses the capacity to lead this Association through its present challenges and into a stronger future.

That person, in my considered opinion, is Lateef Omoyemi Akangbe, SAN.

I have had the privilege of working closely with Yemi over the years. When I served as Chairman of the NBA Lagos Branch Continuing Legal Education and Mentorship Committee, Yemi was a member of the Committee and made invaluable contributions to its work. I also worked closely with him during his tenure as Chairman of the NBA Lagos Branch, serving as a co-opted member of his Executive Committee and as Chairman of the Branch's Continuing Professional Development Committee.

What distinguished Yemi's leadership was his clarity of vision, disciplined execution, and unwavering commitment to service. From the outset of his administration, he established clear timelines for achieving his objectives and remained focused on delivering measurable results. Despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty that accompanied it, he ensured that the Branch remained active by introducing virtual meetings and other innovative engagement platforms. He also mobilised public-spirited members of the Branch to fund a palliative programme through which food supplies and financial assistance were provided to members who required support during that difficult period.

Within his first 100 days in office, Yemi had established an affordable health insurance scheme for members, forged strategic partnerships with several professional bodies to provide training and certification opportunities for lawyers, secured sponsorship for 100 members of the Branch to obtain Associateship of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), and established the Branch's Remuneration Committee, among several other impactful initiatives.

That record matters because the presidency of the NBA is not a learning opportunity. It is a two-year mandate with no room for on-the-job training. The Association needs a president who has already demonstrated, at the institutional level, that he can build systems, deliver programmes, manage crises, and produce results within defined timelines. There are candidates in this election who speak compellingly about what they will do. Yemi is the candidate who has already done it. The difference between a vision and a track record is the difference between a promise and a receipt. Yemi Akangbe comes with receipts.

I have also studied Yemi's manifesto for the national presidency with care. His digital transformation agenda, anchored in the NBA One platform and the e-Remuneration system, reflects the same discipline and practicality that characterised his Branch administration. These are not abstract aspirations. They are phased, costed, and built on existing NBA infrastructure. His commitments on the living wage for young lawyers, the re-introduction of the access-to-finance scheme, the health insurance expansion, and the protection of lawyers' livelihoods against professional encroachment are drawn from the same philosophy that produced the Branch health insurance scheme and the CIArb sponsorships: that the welfare of members is not a talking point but a deliverable. I am satisfied that the manifesto is serious, implementable, and grounded in the real needs of Nigerian lawyers.

[Okechukwu Okoro @okejinka]

@Johapisgrowing_ Welcome back Johap!

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

"In USA, you see names like Mr Stone, Bush, Cricket, etc yet they make progress. But in Africa, Blessing is begging for data, Happiness is suffering from depression, Wisdom has no sense. We bear good names, but we live bad lives."

This one enter o 😭😭😭 https://t.co/ZvNejl2Vn6

[Okechukwu Okoro @okejinka]

@AguigboEsq Too insensitive.

[Lateef Omoyemi Akangbe, SAN @OmoyemiAkangbe]

I took the campaign where it belongs: into some of the rooms where Nigerian law is practised at its highest level.

@kenna_lp. @aluko_oyebode. @BanwoIghodalo. @Strenandblan.

These were not merely campaign visits. They were substantive conversations with lawyers who shape transactions, resolve complex disputes, advise leading institutions, and contribute daily to the development of our legal and commercial landscape.

Our discussions centred on the future of the Nigerian Bar Association: what it owes its members, where it has fallen short, and the practical reforms required to restore confidence, strengthen institutions, and better serve the profession.

The lawyers in these rooms are not persuaded by slogans. They interrogate facts for a living. They distinguish between aspiration and execution, between promises and a demonstrable record of service.

My record speaks for itself.

As Chairman of the NBA Lagos Branch, I convened the Remuneration Committee whose work culminated in the 2023 Legal Practitioners Remuneration Order, now subsidiary legislation under the Legal Practitioners Act. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the welfare fund established by the Branch provided timely support to members when it was needed most. Under my leadership, the Branch also recorded an increase in its net worth of almost 10 per cent within two years, with every kobo transparently accounted for. That was the record I took into those conversations.

I am grateful for the thoughtful engagement, candid feedback, and warm reception. The future of our Association will be shaped by conversations such as these grounded in ideas, informed by experience, and focused on service.

Vote Lateef Omoyemi Akangbe, SAN.

Vote LOA

[Ridwan Oke @RidwanuLlah]

In all of these, Yemi Akangbe SAN is banking on your votes. He’s not asking you to forget his past, he’s not trying to disenfranchise you through the courts, he’s saying, look at my track records, I have done it before and I will do it again.

Vote @OmoyemiAkangbe

[Michael Okoroafor @OkoroaforMicha3]

Invest heavily in your child's early education, and the later stages become much easier to navigate.

I'm not talking about quality formal education alone. Invest in their informal education too. Make time to talk with them. Ask them to explain things, express their thoughts, and patiently listen while you guide and correct them.

Growing up, my mum would ask us to read Bible passages during morning devotions and explain what we had read. That simple practice taught us to think clearly and speak confidently from a very young age.

After school and during holidays, we stayed with her in her shop. That was where we unconsciously developed business sense, communication skills, responsibility, and confidence.

School is important, but the home remains the first and most influential classroom. Many of the qualities we admire in children are formed there long before the world gets to see them.

[Legalpreneur ⚖️ @tonjieama]

Kindly take a look at the reliefs sought in page two of the ruling.

How can a party apply for extension of time to apply to set aside the judgment of the court, and at the same time praying the court to set aside the same judgment for which they are seeking the extension of time for (those are two inconsistent reliefs sought)? And the court went ahead to set aside its judgment without a valid/competent application to do so in the first place, nor granted extension of time within which the party can apply to set aside the judgment of the court.

Firstly, the first relief connotes that the Applicants’ right to apply to set aside the judgment had long being elapsed, hence prayer for EXTENSION OF TIME.

Secondly, there’s no “deeming prayer” to the fact that, after the court had granted relief one for EXTENSION OF TIME, that the application before it was proper to be considered as the right application praying the court to set aside its earlier judgment!

For avoidance of doubt, there’s no where in the judgment where it granted prayer one. By that, the corrupt judge corruptly granted relief two to an Applicant whose right to apply to set aside the judgment had long expired, and as such, can only do so with a proper application after granting extension of time to the party by the court!

Assuming but not conceding that the court granted the first relief for extension of time, without a “deeming prayer” as a third relief, the court lacks the jurisdiction to set aside its judgment, because the instant application, after granting of relief one has been spent, hence the applicant must have to file a fresh application (which is the whole essence of granting prayer/relief one on the face of the motion paper.

This is pure judicial malpractice!

[FESTUS OGUN @mrfestusogun]

The celebrated case of Monehin v UBA (2026) 2 NPLR 07, handled by our Firm, is now reported.

https://t.co/7jpikVSCW9

[Lakshay Mehta @lakshaymehta08]

A boy dropped his sister and another girl at school in an auto-rickshaw. He was paying the driver.

AUTO DRIVER: Are they both your sisters?

BOY: No, only one is my sister. The other girl couldn’t find an auto, so I asked her to come with us.

DRIVER: Then it’s okay. You don’t need to pay. Buy yourself something to eat with this money 😊

BOY: Thank you, Uncle ❤️

[Advocacy For Good Governance @governance_101]

Chinyere Udoma has dropped a hit song for Peter Obi's 2027 Campaign.

Nigeria will be OK ✌️🇳🇬

[FESTUS OGUN @mrfestusogun]

The militarization of the court must stop.

[Gamer_Architect @QHVZYMY]

Welcome to Villa SNOW
A 4-bedroom private residential project
exterior and interior design and animation

Design and visualisation by yours truly.

#interior_design #homeinteriors #architects #architecture_hunter #ᴇxᴘʟᴏʀᴇᴘᴀɢᴇ