A monthly long-form conversation between Richard Jones Onyeneho and a senior counterparty — regulators, founders, investors, jurists — on a question shaping Nigerian business and law.
Each episode runs 40–60 minutes, unhurried and substantive. We avoid the news of the week in favour of the questions that will still matter in a year. New episodes the first Tuesday of each month.
In conversation with [Senior Regulator — placeholder], former Director-General of a principal Nigerian regulator. We discuss why so many cross-border transactions still encounter friction at the capital movement stage, what the CBN's revised framework actually changes in practice, and what serious investors should look for in their counsel.
A conversation about what regulatory durability looks like for a Nigerian fintech. When to over-invest in compliance, when to ask for forgiveness, and the difference between the two in practice.
An unhurried discussion of the Land Use Act's structural impact on Nigerian real estate — and why reform proposals that miss the underlying logic of the Act tend to fail.
The inaugural conversation. An in-house perspective on what serious clients now expect from external Nigerian counsel — and what most law firms still get wrong.
Counsel is an invitation-based programme, but we welcome suggestions from listeners. The most useful guests are senior practitioners with substantive views and the willingness to share them at length.
