The Dynamic Intersections of Economics, Foreign Relations, Jurisprudence and National Development

Name: The Dynamic Intersections of Economics, Foreign Relations, Jurisprudence and National Development
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In today’s tumultuous world, global dynamics oftentimes have a direct bearing on what happens in the domestic environment as the context determines. That intermestic context may be shaped by the volatilities and unpredictability of the extant political, socio-economic, technological, environmental, and legal milieu, thereby impacting the lives of ordinary people in a positive or negative way. The reasons are not far-fetched: a rules-based legal orthodoxy and global interconnectedness more often than not prevail. This orthodoxy is patently imperfect and the fractures therein, at times, end in deeper complexities, a failure of diplomacy, and, in extremis, serious conflict and war.

These interrelated issues are examined in thematic prisms hence the division of the book into five parts.

Part 1, assesses pertinent themes in foreign affairs, geopolitics, and international jurisprudence.
Part 2, examines options for constitutional reform in Nigeria, including land use reform, parliamentary democracy, rotational presidency, and other contemporary jurisprudential concerns.
Part 3, robustly engages national development and cross-cutting themes including national security and criminal law; effective state craft and the balance of meritocracy and partisanship; electoral reform; and Nigeria’s petroleum subsidy conundrum, whilst advancing pragmatic policy recommendations.
Part 4, deals with corporate law and governance, leadership, and technology. Salient topics here include, but are by no means limited to, the innovatively disruptive impacts of artificial intelligence, adaptive leadership and cultural relativism, boardroom dynamics and protecting minority shareholders, private equity, and circumstances in which board directors may be removed.
Part 5, the final chapter, undertakes a de facto socio-economic evaluation on of trickle-down aviation economics, trickle-down economics, market efficiency and the petroleum regulatory regime in Nigeria, public-private partnerships (PPPs) and digital inclusion; the insurance sector’s contribution to gross domestic product and a comparative analysis of sovereign debt restructuring.
The singular thread that connects all the chapters of this book is a realistic aspiration for a safer, more peaceful, and prosperous global order on which development transpires at the local level.
The international comparisons are intentional as is the reference to Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country (circa 222 million) and largest economy, which the International Monetary Fund estimates will scale USD573 billion in 2023.

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About the Author

‘Femi Desmond Ojumu is a Barrister and Notary Public of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He is an alumnus of The University of Ife, The Nigerian Law School, Victoria Island, Lagos, The London School of Economics & Political Science, UK, and holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Kingston University, UK.
He has advised multi-national organizations, international energy companies, FTSE/NSE listed corporations, governments of developed and developing economies and high-net-worth individuals. His expertise straddles advocacy in domestic and international tribunals, including participation in large cross-border arbitration proceedings at international arbitral tribunals. Femi is an acclaimed writer with a weekly Wednesday column in The Guardian (Nigeria) on national development, business strategy, economics, law, foreign affairs and policy themes with a huge global and local following. His seminal essays have also been cited and or published in leading academic journals notably The US Africa Command’s African Defence Forum Quarterly; The International Bar Association’s Banking and Maritime Law Journals; CQ Researcher; The Chartered Institute of Directors (Nigeria); The Bank Directors’ Association of Nigeria (BDAN); The Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB); The Nigerian Tribune (Tribune Law) and other leading organisations, have published his thought pieces.
Mr Ojumu is a highly experienced and sought-after international public speaker, and has presented seminal law and policy papers to The Judiciary of the Lagos State Government of Nigeria; The Nigeria Bar Association; The Nigerian Maritime Lawyers Association; The African Finance Corporation; The Office of the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State; The European Commission, Brussels, Belgium; The North West Regional Development Agency, Warrington, UK; including regular TV appearances on CNBC, the international business channel; and several radio appearances.
He is a Faculty Member, of The Chartered Institute of Directors (Nigeria); with a significant Board level of experience straddling the Manchester/Salford Market Renewal Partnership Board, UK; Hull & East Riding of Yorkshire (Gateway) Market Renewal Partnership Board, UK; London European Structural Funds Programme Management Board; North West England European Structural Funds Programme Management Board. Femi supports leading non-profit organisations and he is a Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary Foundation, of Rotary International. Femi received a Rotary Club of Lagos Distinguished Service Award for Exceptional and Devoted Service in February 2023.
Outside work, Femi enjoys playing the piano, and saxophone and listening to eclectic music genres. A keen sportsman, Femi still occasionally plays his favourite sport, cricket.