Jumoke Lambo
MANAGING PARTNER
Jumoke Lambo is the Managing Partner of Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie’s law firm. She heads the firm’s Telecommunications, Media, and Technology (“TMT”), which also comprises the firm’s data protection practice. She co-heads the firm’s Aviation and Employment Law, which includes the firm’s business establishment and corporate immigration practice and Corporate Advisory teams. She also oversees Alsec Nominees Limited, the firm’s company secretarial practice, which has over 300 companies in its portfolio. Her specialisations include TMT, data protection and cybersecurity, foreign investment, regulatory compliance, aviation, employment law, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate advisory.
Jumoke has over three decades of experience in telecommunications law, data protection, cybersecurity, aviation, employment law, immigration law and general corporate practice with an emphasis on corporate advisory, legislative drafting, mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment, corporate restructuring, regulatory compliance, due diligence and capital markets.
She was a member of the consortium of international experts whose services were retained by the Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Bureau of Public Enterprises (“BPE”), to exhaustively review and modify Nigeria’s legal/regulatory framework for its Telecommunications sector. The team later went on to draft the comprehensive legislation for the sector, the Nigerian Communications Act 2003. She has assisted many companies in her various areas of expertise about establishing and doing business in Nigeria. She also advises a variety of investors with the acquisitions of interests in Nigerian companies and regulatory compliance. In addition, she has assisted clients with generating employment and end of-employment documentation, negotiation and settling of employment-related contractual and trade disputes and advising on employee issues in the context of bankruptcies, company liquidations, mergers, acquisitions, divestments and restructuring. She heads the data protection practice group which is a subset of the TMT practice group and advises widely on data protection issues. She is noted for her data protection expertise. The firm is a licensed Data Protection Compliance Organisation with the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and as a result Jumoke assists many clients with their data protection compliance under the Nigerian Data Protection Regulation 2019.
Jumoke was seconded to both Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services Limited – Etisalat Nigeria (now 9 Mobile) (2009-2010), and Union Bank of Nigeria (2014-2017) to head their legal departments and to restructure the departments by introducing processes and structures to improve their efficiency and optimise output. These secondments also broadened her own experience in the legal sphere through the exposure to in-house legal work.
Jumoke has also assisted the telecommunications sector regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (“NCC”) and the NITDA, in their drive to develop awareness with their various stakeholders within and outside Nigeria. In this regard she has been a member of the NCC’s faculty at a training of judges on cybersecurity. She has assisted the NITDA by reviewing policy document and providing input into proposed draft legislation.
| 2025 – till date | Managing Partner, Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie |
| 2009 | Acting Director, Legal Services, Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services Limited |
| 2000-2025 | Partner, Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie |
| 1998-1999 | Senior Associate, Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie |
| 1988-1998 | Associate, Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie |
| 1989 | BL, Nigerian Law School |
| 1988 | LL. B, University of Bristol |
| 1989 | Nigeria |
Nigerian Bar Association
Immigration Spot-checks and Inspections
Did you know that Regulation 35 of the Immigration Regulations 2017 (the “Regulations”) provides that an immigration officer may, without a warrant, enter and search any premises he/she reasonably believes that an offence under the Immigration Act 2015 (the “Act”) or the Regulations has been, is being or is about to be committed? To access […]
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UUBO Contributes to Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law Practice Note Overview 2024
We are pleased to announce our contribution to the chapter titled “Data Localization Laws: Overview (Nigeria)”, featured in the Practical Law Practice Note Overview by Thomson Reuters. The contribution was authored by our Telecommunications, Media and Technology and Data Protection Partner, Jumoke Lambo, Senior Associates, Babatunde Olayinka and Chisom Okolie and Associate, Opeyemi Adeshina. This […]
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UUBO’s Data Protection Practice Group Contributes to the 2024 International Comparative Legal Guides
We are pleased to announce our contribution of the chapter titled “Data Protection Laws and Regulations, Nigeria, 2024,” published in the International Comparative Legal Guides by Global Legal Group. The contribution was authored by our Telecommunications, Media and Technology and Data Protection Partner, Jumoke Lambo, Senior Associate, Chisom Okolie and Associate , Opeyemi Adeshina. In […]
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Overview of NCC Guidance on the Simplification of Tariffs in the Nigerian Communication Sector
The Nigeria Communication Commission (“NCC”) on 29 July, 2024 released the Guidance on the Simplification of Tariffs in the Nigerian Communication Sector. The document requires all licencees to simplify their tariff plans within the telecommunications sector. The Guidance aims to reduce complexity, ensure transparency in promotional elements, protect consumer interests, and promote fair competition within […]
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Data Privacy Newsletter: Issue 25
Our Telecommunications, Media, Technology, and Data Protection group partner, Jumoke Lambo, senior associate Babatunde Olayinka, senior associate Chisom Okolie, associate Opeyemi Adeshina, and associate Samuel Ngwu contributed to the Slaughter and May’s summer edition of Data Privacy Newsletter which provides a round-up of selected legal and regulatory updates on data privacy and artificial intelligence in various […]
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Review of the Business Facilitation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022
The Business Facilitation Act and its implications for certain corporate matters under the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 The Business Facilitation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023 (“BFA”) was signed by former President Buhari on 8th February 2023 and is applicable throughout Nigeria. The primary objective of the BFA is to promote the ease of doing […]
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Data Protection Compliance: Conducting Annual Data Protection Audits
Did you know that: The Nigeria Data Protection Regulations 2019 (“NDPR”) requires organisations to conduct a detailed audit of their privacy and data protection practices at inception and thereafter on an annual basis where they process the Personal Data of Nigerian citizens and residents utilising the services of a licensed Data Protection Compliance Organisation (“DPCO”).
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Revised COVID-19 Public Health Guidelines for All Aviation Service Providers
On 12th December 2022, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (“NCAA”) issued the ‘Revised COVID-19 Public Health Guidelines for All Aviation Service Providers (Domestic and International Operations)’ (the “Revised Covid-19 Guidelines”). The Revised COVID-19 Guidelines have been issued to correspond with the consistently low numbers of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria and most parts of the world. […]
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THE CLIMATE CHANGE ACT 2021: KEY POINTS FOR CONSIDERATION
In order to protect the Nigerian environment and ecosystem from the ravages associated with climate change and to achieve the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria signed the country’s climate change bill into law on 18th November 2021. We have provided a highlight of some of the key provisions […]
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Data Protection – Do You Know the Principles Governing the Processing of Personal Data Under the NDPR – Series 2
THE PRINCIPLES GOVERNING THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA UNDER THE NIGERIA DATA PROTECTION REGULATION 2019
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Fast Facts – Disability in the Workplace
In honour of this year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities, our Employment Law team have prepared an article on disability in the workplace. The theme for this year’s Persons with Disabilities global observance is “Transformative solutions for inclusive development: the role of innovation in fuelling an accessible and equitable world“. This global observance is […]
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IFLR Africa Market Makers Report
UUBO is pleased to have contributed the Nigerian chapter of the 2022 edition of the IFLR Africa Market Makers report, authored by partners Jumoke Lambo, Folake Elias-Adebowale, Yinka Edu, Ozofu Olatunde Ogiemudia, Nicholas Okafor, Adeola Sunmola, Joseph Odianosen Eimunjeze and Onyinye Okafor. The report highlights and offer perspectives on trends, developments and key regulatory and […]
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Nigerian chapter of the 9th Edition of GLG Group UK’s International Comparative Legal Guide – Data Protection 2022
Jumoke Lambo and Chisom Okolie of our Telecommunications, Media And Technology Team have contributed to the latest Nigerian chapter of the 9th Edition of GLG Group UK’s International Comparative Legal Guide – Data Protection 2022, in which they discussed key privacy and data protection compliance issues under Nigerian law and developments in this sphere. The chapter is free […]
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Impact of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulations (NDPR) Implementation Framework 2020 on the existing provisions of the NDPR
Data protection compliance has become an integral part of every organisation that collects and processes personal data. In order to strengthen consumer confidence, organisations are required to ensure that the personal data of their customers are secured from unauthorised access. Join Jumoke Lambo, a Partner of UUBO, who heads the firm’s data protection team, as well as Babatunde olayinka (a […]
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The International Comparative Legal Guide – Employment & Labour Law 2021
UUBO’s Jumoke Lambo (partner) and Victoria Agomuo (associate) are proud to share their most recent publication, the Nigerian chapter of The International Comparative Legal Guide – Employment & Labour Law 2021. The chapter provides timely and insightful answers to topical questions about employment in Nigeria, and can be accessed for free here: https://lnkd.in/evEemuW
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Data Localisation Laws in Nigeria
UUBO is pleased to share a Q&A authored by Jumoke Lambo (partner), Babatunde Olayinka, Chukwunedum Orabueze, and Bond Eke-Opara (associates), on Data Localisation Laws in Nigeria, for the Thomson Reuters Practical Law Data Privacy Advisory.
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UUBO ADVISES SEPLAT ENERGY PLC ON ITS ACQUISITION OF EXXON MOBIL’S OFFSHORE SHALLOW WATER BUSINESS IN NIGERIA
We congratulate SEPLAT ENERGY on successfully completing its acquisition of the entire...
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What the market says…
“The “excellent” Jumoke Lambo is singled out by market sources as "a brilliant lawyer in the employment space”.”
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“Jumoke Lambo is a highly respected name in the corporate immigration arena thanks to her negotiation skills and regulatory know-how.”
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