Mohammed Babangida Umar
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Mohammed Babangida Umar
Capital Chambers
Profile
Mohammed Babangida Umar is the founder and Principal Partner, Capital Chambers, Suite B2/3, Ibro Hotel, Michael Okpara Street, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja. Before establishing the law firm in 1995, Mr. Umar was a pioneer legal officer with the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation, Abuja (1989 - 1994). He was also a lecturer on the Law of Contract, Commercial Law, Law of Torts, and the Nigerian Legal System at the College of Law, University of Abuja (1994 - 1998). Mr. Umar has also been involved in a number of National and International Assignments. He was, for instance, a member of the Presidential Committee on the review of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999; delegate, Presidential Retreat on Electoral Process and Violence; Member Committee of experts on the review of the constitution of African Rural and Agricultural Finance Association, (AFRACA), Nairobi, Kenya; Member International Observer Team to the Parliamentary Election in the Republic of SaoTome and Principe.
EDUCATION
- Centre for Energy ,petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee
LLM, Energy Law and Policy (2005) - Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Institute for Energy Law, and Association of
International Petroleum Negotiators
International Energy Law, Contracts, and Negotiations-Upstream Issues and Agreements
(Houston Texas, September 25, to October 1, 2004)
- International Energy Law, Contracts, and Negotiations-Midstream Issues and Agreements
(Houston Texas, October 4, to October 8 2004) - Harvard Law School
Program of Instruction for lawyers (June 2002) (Business Law courses: U.S securities Law, WTO, American Law and Land Law)
Program of Instruction for Lawyers (June 2002) (Negotiation workshop) - International Law Institute, Kampala, Uganda
Public Enterprises, Restructuring & Privatisation seminar,
(September, 2000) - Fourth Pan-African Privatisation & Investment -Summit Abuja - Nigeria.
(November 2000) - Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
7th Course in Legal Drafting (1992) - Nigerian Law School, Lagos, Nigeria. BL (1989)
- 8. Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. LLB (Hons) (1987)