Industrial Court President, Adejumo, to Chair Gani Adetola-Kaseem Tribute Lecture

The President of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, the Hon. Justice Babatunde Adejumo, will be the Chairman at the Tribute lecture in honour of the late Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Gani Adetola-Kaseem, SAN, scheduled to hold on Thursday, July 12, 2018.

The Lecture tagged: ‘The Development of the Nigerian Labour Jurisprudence: The Role of Chief Gani Adetola-Kaseem, SAN (1948-2018), which will be held at the Sheba Centre, Mobolaji Bank-Anthony Way, Ikeja at 10.00a.m., is organised by a group identified as the Committee of Friends.

A renowned university Don, Professor Hakeem A. Olaniyan of the University of Lagos, will deliver the Lecture, while the President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Dr. Ayuba Wabba, will be the Special Guest of Honour.

Other Panellists at the Tribute Lecture, are drawn from the Nigeria Labour Congress, National Industrial Court of Nigeria, Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Nigerian Bar Association, and Joint Health Sector Unions.

Chief Gani Adetola-Kaseem, was a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), and a Member of the Nigeria Institute of Management (MNIM). He was also a member of the Nigeria Bar Association, Commonwealth Lawyers Association, and International Bar Association.

He was appointed a Notary Public in 1992, and elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), in 2002.

He participated actively in the Committees on the repositioning of the National Industrial Court between 2005 and 2011, the result of whose activities culminated in the enactment of the National Industrial Court Act 2006, the National Industrial Court Rules 2007, and Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Third Alteration) Act 2010, which made NICN, a Superior Court of Record and expanded its jurisdiction considerably.

He was largely instrumental to the establishment of the Labour and Employment Committee, of the Section on Legal Practice of the Nigerian Bar Association.