Simbi Wabote, Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), has challenged lawyers to get more involved in the ongoing reforms in the oil and gas industry.
Speaking on the topic, ‘Managing Transition and Transformation of the Nigeria’s Oil and Gas Industry’, at the 58th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association in Abuja, Wabote posited that lawyers have a big role to play and that includes getting more involved in the development of the laws and regulations and keeping the emerging legal regime simple for easy implementation and compliance.
In providing legal advisory to their clients, he also appealed to members of the NBA to first explore peaceful resolution of oil and gas disputes, and advise “their clients to default to out of court settlements”, noting that “long drawn legal battles are killers of great…
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