Gabriel Omoniyi, Tsebee Doowuese Win 2021 Edition of Adavize Alao Essay Competition
Gabriel Temitope Omoniyi, an Associate at Lelaw Barristers and Solicitors, and Tsebee Dorcas Doowuese who submitted her entry as a student of the Nigerian Law School, have emerged winners of the Young Lawyers’ and Law Students’ categories of the 2021 Adavize Alao Essay Competition on Privacy and Data Protection respectively.
Omoniyi who practices in Lagos earned the top position for the young lawyers’ category with 42 points out a possible 50 while Doowuese led the law students’ category with 38 points.
The Adavize Alao Essay Competition on Privacy and Data Protection is held annually in honour of Lawyard co-founder, Adavize Alao, who passed on in August 2019 following a brief illness. Fondly remembered by many, Alao was passionate about privacy and data protection as an emerging area of practice and was completing a graduate degree in Data Protection & Intellectual Property at the University of Hertfordshire at the time of his demise. The university post-humously conferred the degree on Alao in December 2019.
The 2021 edition of the essay competition commenced on August 16, 2021 and is the third successive edition of the writing contest organised by Lawyard. Sponsors for the competition include Duale Ovia & Alex-Adedipe (DOA), a Lagos-based law firm where Alao worked as an Associate prior to travelling to the United Kingdom for his Masters’ degree. Other sponsors include TechHive Advisory; Garnet Law Practice; Ikigai; LegalNaija; Dr. Simisola Akintoye, a senior lecturer at De Montfort University; and Ms. Taiwo Akinniyi.
Other winners at this year’s edition of the Adavize Alao Essay Competition include Chidera Emmanuel Chikere, an Associate at Africa Law Practice who emerged the first runner-up in the Young Lawyers’ category having scored 40 points out of a possible 50. Olawoyin Tolani Mustapha, currently a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Associate at T&A Legal emerged the second runner-up in the Young Lawyers’ category with 38 points.
For the Law Students’ category, Lagos State University’s Sina Victor Akinmusire placed second with 34 points while Durueke Clinton Charles of the University of Lagos emerged third with 31 points.
All winners of the essay competition will receive their prizes immediately after the Adavize Alao Symposium on Privacy and Data Protection on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 at which they would be recognised. The Symposium is themed ‘Consumer Protection in the Digital Age’ and will be held virtually in line with public health safety measures.
The Executive Vice Chairman, Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, Mr. Babatunde Irukera is billed to deliver the keynote address at the Symposium and will be ably represented by Ms. Morayo Adebayo (Adisa), Technical Consultant to Executive Vice Chairman & CEO, Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, Nigeria. Interested participants at the Symposium can join same via Zoom or through Lawyard’s Facebook page.
Other speakers for the event include Victoria Oloni (winner of the Law Students’ category of the first edition of the competition); Francis Monyango, Ifedayo Adekeye and Gbeminiyi Ojedokun.
