Founding Partner
Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba is the Founding Partner of the Firm. He was Leader of the 7th Senate and Deputy Senate Leader of the 6th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and he was a member of the Senate of the 5th to the 7th Assemblies, from 2003 to 2015. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1978 and started his professional career with Kanu G. Agabi & co in 1979.
He has been Director, Cross River Basin Development Authority [1981-1983), Commissioner for Works & Transport, Cross River State 1984 – 1986, Acting Attorney General, Cross River State 1985 – 1986; Director Chief Executive DFRRI [Cross River State) 1986; Member, London Court of International Arbitration; Member, International Bar Association [Sections on Business Law and Trans- National Litigation); Member, International Legal Practitioners Forum, has been in active private legal practice and was on the Board of Directors of several companies with interests in construction, industrial engineering, banking and finance and was pioneer President of the Institute of Construction Industry Arbitrators of Nigeria.
He has been involved in many privatization exercises. He served as the Chairman of the Cross River State Council of Privatization and President of the Calabar Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the National Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association and a member of the Body of Benchers.
He was elected and sworn into the Senate in 2003 and remained there until 2015. During this eventful period, he held several positions including the following: Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Solid Minerals; Chairman of the newly created Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, making him the official spokesman of the Senate. He was tasked with developing a framework and strategy for engagement with the Media, Civil Society and the public at large. He was also appointed Chair, Ad-hoc Committee to investigate the affairs of the Petroleum Trust Development Fund [PTDF).
He later became Deputy Senate Leader and eventually Senate Leader. He has the distinct and unique privilege of being elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria [SAN) from the National Assembly, giving him the distinction as the first and only person so far, to have been awarded the rank outside legal practice and academia.
Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba was also President of the first ever Africa Legislative Summit held in Abuja in November 201 3; a Summit that brought together the Heads of Legislatures from all over Africa. He was leader of Nigeria’s Delegation to the Association of Senates, Shooras and Equivalent Councils in Africa and the Arab world [ASSECAA) in Sanaa, Yemen in the 6th Senate and Pan African Parliament, Midrand, South Africa in the 7th Senate. He was a delegate to the 50th United Nations General Assembly in the 5th Senate. He was also Special Envoy to President Goodluck Jonathan on Rt.Hon. Bethel Amadi’s Presidency of the Pan African Parliament in Midrand South Africa. Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba is married with a son and two daughters.
Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba during his legislative /parliamentary career, introduced 39 bills including the Freedom of Information Bill, An Act to Provide for the Imposition and Administration of Property Tax in the Federal Capital Territory and an Act to Establish the Federal Capital Territory Authority Board of Internal Revenue [all now Acts of Parliament]; and many more motions. He has attended courses and programmes at the Irish Development Institute, Shannon Ireland, Stanford and Harvard University among others.