Uto Ukpanah, a high-profile Nigerian lawyer (a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria who was called to the Nigerian Bar more than three decades ago), today 23 April 2024, emerged as the First (Pioneer) Winner of the prestigious global CSIA Corporate Secretary of the Year Award which held in Kuala Lumpur, the Capital City of Malaysia.
CSIA (Corporate Secretaries International Association), headquartered in Hong Kong, is structured as an international federation of 15 national professional bodies, representing more than 100,000 corporate secretaries and governance professionals in more than 70 countries throughout the world. Uto Ukpanah is the Vice President of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN).
Uto Ukpanah is the distinguished Company Secretary at MTN Nigeria (Africa’s most populous country), a multinational company and the largest mobile network service provider in Nigeria. She is a corporate lawyer with extensive experience in company and commercial law, actively involved in developing sustainable corporate governance structures in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in Nigeria. Uto’s professional specialties include developing sustainable corporate governance systems, ethics and corporate social responsibility advisory services.
CSIA’s official congratulatory message on Uto Ukpanah’s sterling Award reads:
🌟Congratulations to the first winner of the CSIA Corporate Secretary of the Year Award, Uto Ukpanah!🌟
This award celebrates her visionary leadership, dedication to advancing sound governance practices in business and for being the embodiment of excellence and innovation as a Corporate Secretary in the field of corporate governance.
Uto, your dedication, and commitment to excellence in corporate governance practices have not gone unnoticed. You are truly a shining example in our profession, embodying the values of integrity, collaboration, and innovation.
Congratulations once again on this well-deserved honour!
The Human Right of Free Access to Law Advocacy proudly felicitates and congratulates Uto Ukpanah on her remarkable achievements all over the years that, today, culminated in her being the First (Pioneer) Winner of the prestigious global CSIA Corporate Secretary of the Year Award!
We wish her the best and more national and international awards and recognition in the corporate world and other areas of human endeavour.
Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee
Director, Human Right of Free Access to Law Advocacy
23 April 2024
The Netherlands
Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee is an Associate Professor of Law. He holds a multidisciplinary PhD in international human rights law, legal information technology (aspects of legal informatics), indigenous customary law, and indigenous rights and LLM in transborder comparative analysis of free access to public legal information. He is a former legal research national consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the 1998 PCASED project that provided the juridical foundations for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) 1998 Moratorium which culminated in a regional multilateral treaty: ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons, their Ammunition and other Related Matters 2006. He devised the <.officiallaws) official public legal information generic top-level domain (gTLD) system for easy identification of the reliable versions of the laws published online worldwide; developed the system of nationally networked one-stop official public legal information websites (the NOPLIW system) for the optimal findability and management of online law databases; invented the human rights-based public access-adequate huricompatisation model of ascertainment of indigenous customary law (huricompatisation); formulated the new human rights-advocacy approach (NHRAA) that consists of a set of ten onerous criteria for the formal universal recognition of new human rights; and pioneered the global advocacy of the formal universal recognition of the right of free access to public legal information as a substantive or stand-alone human right in 2017 (https://publiclegalinformation.com). His New Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series consists of 22 (twenty-two) modern academic article-style independent but interconnected chapters of the following four books:
Developments in Human Rights Law and the Proposed Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information: The New Human Rights-Advocacy Approach and the Ten Criteria for the Formal Recognition of New Human Rights (Volume 1) — ISBN 9789083108520 (eBook) and 9789083108506 (paperback);
The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access (Volume 2) — ISBN 9789083108568 (eBook) and 9789083108544 (paperback);
Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information (Volume 3) — ISBN 9789083108513 (eBook) and 9789083108582 (paperback); and
A Model Empirical Study of the Current State of Governmental Provision of Free Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information (Volume 4) — ISBN 9789083108551 (eBook) and 9789083108537 (paperback).
The Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Advocacy (HURAPLA) website (https://publiclegalinformation.com) contains details of the availability of these books and valuable legal information resources.
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