Occupation Entertainment Lawyer | Name Yahaya Maikori | |
Education Obafemi Awolowo University
Nigerian Law School
University of London Known for Chocolate City, co-founder | ||
Yahaya Maikori is an entertainment lawyer in Nigeria and founder of law firm Law Allianz and record label Chocolate City.
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Education
Yahaya Maikori is a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University. He earned his Bachelor of Laws degree from Nigerian Law School in 1993 and was admitted into the Nigerian Bar Association. Maikori got his Master of Laws from the University of London in 2010.
Career
Maikori started his legal career as the legal advisor to ASO Savings & Loans and later he worked as the company secretary for First Alliance Pension and Benefits. Maikori was one of the founding directors of the record label Chocolate City based in Nigeria in 2005 with his brother Audu Maikori and business partner Paul Okeugo. \. Chocolate City has managed the careers of artists such as M.I, Femi Kuti, Ice Prince, DJ Caise, Pryse, Nosa, Victoria Kimani, Dice Ailes, Koker, Brymo and Jesse Jagz. Yahaya Maikori founded and became Senior Partner of law firm Law Allianz which covers entertainment law.
As an entertainment lawyer, Maikori is on the entertainment committee of Nigerian Bar Association, the copyright law review committee of the Nigerian Copyright Commission, and is an alternate director in Nigeria’s copyrights society.(ice) He spoke at South by Southwest in 2013 on a panel called "CLE 6: International Creative Lawyering and Future Growth." Additionally, Maikori has spoken at other events including the Betting and iGaming BiG Africa Summit and Exhibition in 2014.