Sayches: A New Social Media Platform Focused on Privacy and Net Anonymity Has Opened for Signups
On Tuesday, August 3, 2021, a new London-based social media platform Sayches opened to the public. The platform aims to provide an uncensored social channel for users to access true freedom of speech while ensuring privacy is protected, a perspective that is missing from existing social media giants.
The Development of a Project by Founding a Management Company, Backed by an Asset Company in West African Countries- Franck Allessie
The implementation of a project through the creation of a management company (société de gestion in French), backed by an asset company (société de patrinoine in French), is a structure that can offer other advantages than those presented by the contractual structures set out in our current regulations (implementation of a project via a public contract, via a long lease (bail emphythéotique), via a PPP).
The main advantage of this type of scheme is to allow different rounds of financing in each of the companies and therefore to gather the maximum number of stakeholders, whose interests may be complementary, to have the debt borne solely by the asset company, to not involve the private operator in the investment by the asset company and to strictly confine the private operator to its role as operator.
Ribin N. Ondwari: Africa’s Legal Millennial
Ribin Ondwari is a Partner and Head of Real Estate, Banking and Financial Services at Ashitiva Advocates LLP in Nairobi, Kenya. Ribin is regarded as one of Kenya’s fastest rising lawyers. Multifaceted logic is Ribin’s thing, hence he is adept at banking & financial services law, real estate, capital markets transactions, insolvency & corporate restructuring and energy law.
The Argument for Privatization of Loss-Making Public Enterprises- Ali Smart
The government has no business doing business. The inherent obligation of the government is to regulate; and ensures the business terrains reflect a fair level playing ground that is transparent enough to absorb healthy competitions and innovations among industry players. The state also must ensure there is constant sanity in the ecosystem that sustains the value chain of economic production. Business can only be business if the utility value of the system remains sacred. The rights of Investors, consumers and all other players in the ecosystem must be well safeguarded in building a fair level playing ground.
Current Trends In Artificial Intelligence And Business Disruption- Oyetola Muyiwa Atoyebi, SAN
One of the most exciting and promising frontiers of technology today is Artificial Intelligence (AI). Any conversation around technology is incomplete without a reference to AI. While the term AI has been around for decades, in recent times, its application across industries, from healthcare, business and education to banking, amongst others, is changing the way we live and work both remotely and in the traditional sense.
Ahmed Ashrf Mshrf: Africa’s Legal Millennial
The Millennial star is Ahmed Ashrf Mshrf who graduated from the Faculty of Law, English Department with honours and academic excellence. He got his LLM in International Commercial Law. He’s a Practicing Lawyer in Egypt and an Associate Partner in Ashrf Mshrf Lawyers and Counsellors which is considered one of the top-tier commercial Law Firms in Egypt and the Middle East.
The Degree of Participation of African Countries in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Dispute Settlement- Joalane Lemao
Dispute Settlement in the WTO serves as one of the organization’s core activities. The aim of the dispute settlement mechanism (DSM) is to secure a positive solution to a dispute, where there has been a violation of a member government against the other. The provisions for formal dispute settlement mechanisms under the understanding of rules and procedures governing the settlement of disputes stands as the art, the crown and the jewel of the WTO.
Bukola Bankole: Africa’s Legal Millennial
Bukola Bankole, our Millennial feature, is a Partner at The New Practice (TNP), an Andersen Global collaborating law firm in Lagos, Nigeria. She leads the firm’s Corporate Finance, Capital Markets and Technology Teams. Her extensive and proven wealth of experience in advising on financing and investment deals cuts across various industries in multiple jurisdictions and aids her ability to provide industry-specific expertise in multiple aspects of commercial transactions at all times.
Sheriff Kumba Jobe: Africa’s Legal Millennial
Sheriff Kumba Jobe Esq. is one of the most notable young private legal practitioners in The Gambia, who has distinguished himself in his professional sphere within the country is our millennial feature. He is the youngest in the country’s history just five years standing at The Gambia Bar to have successfully defended treason charges before the Court of Appeal by securing the acquittal and discharge of military officers charged with treason.
Kenya: Transformation as Kenya Inaugurates First Female Chief Justice Amidst Legal and Socio-Political Hurdles
On Friday 21st May 2021, Honourable Lady Justice Martha Karambu Koome took oath of office as the Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya. In an event witnessed by the Head of State, the Attoney General, Judges of the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court
