Valentino Buoro To Serve As A Panelist At ICMC 2019 ADR Conference

The ICMC 2019 ADR Conference is scheduled to hold on the 3rd of
December, 2019 in Abuja.

The Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC) is
the professional body of practitioners with the mandate to regulate
the practice of Mediation, train prospective candidates, and
encourage organizations and institutions to adopt Mediation and
Conciliation as the primary means for addressing disputes.

Valentino Buoro is an Accredited Mediation Advocacy Trainer,
Mediator and Arbitrator. A Law graduate of the Lagos State
University Ojo, Valentino was a member of the pioneer class of the
Nigerian Law School Bwari, Abuja.

Prior to his legal training, Valentino had had a distinguished
career as a journalist with the defunct Concord Group of
Newspapers. Soon after his call to the Bar, Valentino resigned from
the services of the Concord Group, and ventured into the electronic
media as an Independent producer of maritime and entrepreneurship
radio programmes.

His exploits in this new course of entrepreneurial focus paid
off when in 2006 he clinched the award of the internationally
recognized Fate Foundation as SME JOURNALIST OF THE
YEAR for his independent programme ‘’Business on
Radio’’

In the years 2010 – 2012 Valentino had a stint with the Cargo
Defence Fund, a division of the Nigerian Shippers Council where he
honed his legal skills in Cargo Claims. He has since leaving the
Cargo Defence Fund engaged in the active practice and promotion of
alternative dispute resolution through his boutique law firm
Forwarder Law Partners and other platforms he has established for
the purpose.

Among his many contributions to the ADR Industry are the
introduction of mediation advocacy skills training into the
Nigerian jurisdiction, under the auspices of the UK based Standing
Conference of Mediation Advocates (SCMA) and the fortnightly
publication of an ADR Column in the Saturday Sun Newspaper in the
last six years. He is the Founder of the Landlords and Tenants
Rights Initiative – a public Interest law Organization, established
for the promotion of mediation in the real estate Industry and
Founder, Incorporated Trustees of Attorney-Mediators
Association.

Valentino is listed as Mediator on the Neutrals Panel of the
Federal High Court ADR Centre, the Lagos Court of Arbitration and
the Edo State Multi-Door Courthouse. He has for over three years
offered Pro Bono Services as Mediator at the Lagos State Citizens
Mediation Centre and has been listed as Mediator by the World
Mediation Organization (WMO)

Valentino Buoro is a Director and Associate Convenor of the
Standing Conference of Mediation Advocates (SCMA), an Accredited
Service Provider to the Nigerian Bar Association on Continuing
Legal Education.

To register for the ICMC ADR Conference, kindly visit
https://icmcng.org/portal^[1]

EFCC Recovers Charms, Fake Currencies from Ilorin
Internet Fraudsters

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (
EFCC) Ilorin Zonal Office have recovered charms, smart phones,
Laptop computers and fake currencies from 10 suspected internet
fraudsters. The suspects:Paul Chibuzor, David Daniels, Tolu
Ogundowole, Tosin Ogundowole, Agwu Goodness, Olayiwola Azeez,
Olamide Ijisesan, Chilaka Dickson, Abdullahi Abubakar and Temitope
Bambo, were picked up from their hideout in the Basin area of
Ilorin, Kwara State on Monday, October 21, 2019, following reports
of their alleged involvement in cyber crime.

The suspects have volunteered information to the Commission,
while investigation continues.

They would be charged to court at the end of investigation.

Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
24 October, 2019