Omono Blessing Omaghomi

Omono Blessing Omaghomi is a member of the Firm’s Dispute Resolution Practice Group and heads the Employment and Labour Law Practice, focusing on Employment Law.

She has dealt extensively with issues of employment and labour law, various arbitration proceedings, banking, aviation claims, debt recovery, real estate, insolvency, family law, enforcement of fundamental human rights, and enforcement of local and foreign judgments. She advises both foreign and local companies on industrial relations, pension reforms, and various forms of terminal benefits as they relate to the employee and employer relationship.

Her representative matters include an employment suit at the National Industrial Court against an indigenous oil company for wrongful termination, where the employee claimed general damages of ₦500,000,000 and special damages of ₦800,000,000 covering terminal benefits, in which judgment was delivered dismissing the claim in its entirety; an arbitration between a retired General and a real estate developer valued at €17,925 and ₦4,650,000; an action for the recovery of a debt in excess of US$10 million and ₦2 billion owed under a Public Private Partnership Management Contract with a state-owned public utility corporation; a claim for damages arising from the unilateral termination of a sole retainer agreement for legal services between the client and a commercial bank, in which judgment was entered in favour of the client in the sum of ₦534,125,351.66; and a civil action instituted by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) against Chevron Nigeria Limited at the National Industrial Court Lagos concerning whether ministerial approval is required before staff reduction or redundancy, in which the claims were dismissed in their entirety.

She is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), Nigeria branch, the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), the International Bar Association, the Michael Imoudu National Institute of Labour Studies (MINILS), and the Employment and Labour Lawyers Association of Nigeria (ELLAN).

She holds an LL.M from the University of Lagos, a BL from the Nigerian Law School, an LL.B and a Dip from the University of Benin. Her publications include Termination of Employment: The Effect of the ILO Convention on Contracts of Employment (November 2022) and co-authorship of the Nigerian chapter on Enforcement of Foreign Judgments published by Lexology.