Career Highlights

Career Highlights

Entreprneurial

 

  • Organized several investment forums for more than twenty (20) African countries.
  • Facilitated transactions between the United States Department of Commerce and African countries.
  • International Consulting: SME Development, Value Chain Development, Contract Review/Development, Project Financing, Project Management, and Monitoring and Evaluation.
  • Supervised an average of 60-member team staff, depending on the project.
  • Facilitation of vessel procurement, financing, and documentation.

Legal

  • At the Centre for U.S. Immigration Services, I have been the director since 2014 till date, expert on a wide range of immigration issues, from labor certification to deportation defense, to employment and business visas.
  • Legal Adviser, International Multiracial Shared Cultural Organization (IMSCO), Category II NGO under the United Nations: 1994 to 2001
  • Focus on Millennium Development Goals.
  • Representation of clients at the port of New Orleans.
  • Expert Opinion on U.S. Maritime Law before Panama Maritime Court.

Corporate

  • Provided consultancy services at the UN Economic and Social Council, New York.
  • Managing Director, African Chamber of Commerce: 1994 to 1997.
  • Liaised with the World Trade Centre on African-related trade interests.
  • Liaised with African missions in the United States.
  • Principal Consultant to Northern Tanker Oy of Helsinki, Finland.
  • Participated in the design of the proposed Port of Southeast Louisiana.

Technocratic

  • Board member of the Imudia Foundation, a non-profit organization that focuses on bringing sustainable healthcare and education to the most vulnerable people in Africa.
  • Worked with the U.S. Congress on the Development of African Growth and Opportunity Act during President Bill Clinton’s era.
  • Advise investors on Vessel Financing through the U.S. Maritime Administration.

Professional Associations

  • Member, Louisiana State Bar Association.
  • Member, Project Management Institute
  • Member, Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.
  • Member, Institute for Supply Chain Management, Tempe, AZ, United States.
  • Member, American Maritime Law Association.
  • Member, American Bar Association.
  • Member, World Trade Center.
  • Member, Board of Directors of African Chamber of Commerce, U.S.A.
  • Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association.
  • Member, American Collectors Association.
  • Member, American Arbitration Association.
  • Secretary, Organization of Nigerian Professionals, U.S.A.
  • Member, Louisiana Solar Energy Society.

Recognitions

  • Selected and Participated in Governor of Louisiana State Trade Missions to Panama and Costa Rica: 2005 & 2006.
  • Outstanding Nigerian Award – African Chamber of Commerce/World Trade Center: 1998.
  • Best Student Award (Legal Research & Writing) – Tulane LLM Program: 1995.
  • Tulane Maritime Law Canter Award, 1994.
  • Graduate Representative to the Students Bar Association: 1994.
  • Best Overall Graduating Student – Abo Akademi: 1993.