Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and Senior Partner at Templars Law Firm, Olumide Akpata, has been honoured by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, PEBEC. Akpata was celebrated at the 2023 PEBEC Award ceremony, which took place in Abuja last week.
PEBEC Award was created to recognise and honour ministries, departments, agencies (MDAs), state governments, and private-sector stakeholders who have contributed significantly to the ease of doing business interventions in Nigeria. Akpata was honoured for his landmark interventions in collaborating with the PEBEC secretariat to work on signature pieces of legislation, including the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), 2020, the Business Facilitation Act, among other initiatives that have contributed to the ease of doing business in Nigeria and Nigeria’s rise in the now rested World Bank Ease of Doing Business.
The legal luminary had served a single two-year tenure as chairman of the NBA-SBL, a special arm of the NBA which engenders the development of commercial law and specialized commercial law practice in Nigeria. While functioning as the chairman of NBA-SBL, he established a partnership between NBA-SBL and PEBEC on the ease of doing business in Nigeria. The partnership reviewed the extant laws and regulations, the monitoring of the productivity and response time of MDAs, including the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).
