Institute, NJI hold annual judges’ workshop on petroleum, power sectors

The third annual Judges’ workshop aimed at capacity building on petroleum, gas and power sectors holds in Abuja at the National Judicial Institute (NJI).

The event, which is organized by the International Institute for Petroleum, Energy Law and Policy (IIPELP), in collaboration with NJI, comes up between June 19 and 20.

The founder of IIPELP and visiting Professor of Energy Law and Policy, Niyi Ayoola-Daniels, disclosed this last week when he led members of IIPELP advisory board on a courtesy visit to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), in Abuja.

Ayoola-Daniels also received the Administrator of NJI, Justice Roseline Bozimo, on familiarization tour of IIPELP facility in Abuja in preparation for the forthcoming workshop.

According to Ayoola-Daniels, the workshop with the theme Law and the Changing Face of Petroleum, Gas and Power Sectors in Nigeria, has become imperative considering series of reforms that the Petroleum, Gas and Power sectors is currently going through.

The Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, President, Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa and Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, would grace the event among others.