Dumo Lulu-Briggs: Accomplished businessman, Legal Practitioner, Philanthropist
Dumo Lulu-Briggs or DLB as he is popularly known is a distinguished Abusite, seasoned legal practitioner, an accomplished businessman, technocrat, politician, and grassroots mobilizer. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of DLB group, a conglomerate of companies with an interest in oil & gas, and marine
Born in 1964 to the family of High Chief O.B. Lulu-Briggs, OON, DCF who was National Vice Chairman, South-South of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in the Second Republic from Abonnema, in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.
He attended Port Harcourt Township primary school from 1970 to 1975, Government Comprehensive Secondary School Port Harcourt, between 1975 – 1980. He graduated with an LLB (Hons) degree from the greatest Faculty of Law, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1985, and got his call to the Nigerian Bar in October 1986.
He further obtained a Masters degree (LLM) in 1987 from the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) before returning home for his National Youth Service at the Institute of Legal Administration, Katsina State Polytechnics, Katsina, from 1988-1989.
Dumo Lulu-Briggs attended various leadership training, both local and international courses, conferences, and seminars in major institutions including the United States-based Ivy League Harvard University and the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Dallas, Texas. He was also at the prestigious University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
Barr Dumo Lulu-Briggs’s Career
Chief (Barr) Dumo Lulu-Briggs has an excellent and distinguished working career in the private and public sectors in Nigeria. He was the legal adviser/company secretary and contributing editor to Associate Media Limited 1990 – 1991.
Solicitor and Notional Head of Chambers, Edu & Mohammed (Solicitor) 1991 – 1992, Principal partner in Nwoka & Lulu-Briggs Law office from 1992 – 1998. He also worked as a Company Secretary/Legal adviser to Moni Pulo Limited (Petroleum Development).
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He later served as the Managing Director, Pioneer Executive Director, and Chief Operating Officer of Moni Pulo Limited; an indigenous, independent oil and gas exploration and Production Company from 1995 to 2004.
He sits atop and/ or chairs several boards of Oil, Gas & Marine companies. He was past Chairman of two Federal Parastatals (Boards) namely, chairman, governing council, Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron, and Chairman, Board of Management, Federal Medical Centre, Owerri.
Chief (Barr) Dumo Lulu-Briggs is currently Chairman, Platform Petroleum Limited, a reputable indigenous oil exploration, and prospecting company and Chairman of DLB GROUP OF COMPANIES.
He is a grassroots politician, mobilizer, and an astute entrepreneur who has bagged several awards. In 2010 he was honored as Best Parastatals Board Chairman of the Year 2010 by the International Publications Limited (Publishers of The International Maritime Digest).
The Distinguished Nation Builders Merit Award (DINBMA); ABR 2015 Leadership and Philanthropy Award; African Achievers Humanitarian Award 2016; Honorary Rotarian Award 2016; Garden City Advancement Award for philanthropy 2016.
Political and Social Life
Chief (Barr) Dumo Lulu-Briggs was a Member- Rivers State Economic Advisory Council for four years (2007-2011); Member – Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorers(NAPE); Member – International Bar Association (IBA); Fellow – Institute of Corporate Managers & Public Administrators of Nigeria (FCMPA).
Barr Dumo Lulu-Brigg’s active political career started in 1992 when he contested for the House of Representative seat for Akuku-Toru Federal Constituency seat on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Thereafter he became the National Assistant Legal Adviser for the Grassroot Democratic Party from 1996 – 1998. He was the Governorship candidate, National Democratic Party, for Rivers State, in 2003, and also in 2015 contested for People’s Democratic Party (PDP) nomination as Governorship candidate at the Party’s primary election.
Philanthropy
Chief (Barr) Dumo Lulu-Briggs has inspired and empowered countless youths into entrepreneurship, equipping them with the tools they need to succeed in this 21st century. He is ever ready to employ benevolence and selfless service to humanity.
He is the founder of the Dumo Lulu – Briggs Youths Foundation (DYF23) whose motto is: REPOSITIONING THE YOUTH FOR A BETTER TOMORROW!
He is a well-acknowledged Giver and Philanthropist of high repute who reached out regularly to the less privileged in places like The Children Home, Home for the Elderly, and The Home For Street Kids in Port Harcourt. He gives grants regularly to women to start small trades and pays for vocational training for young men and women to acquire relevant and marketable skills.
Yearly, he awards scholarships to indigent students from Rivers State across the 23 LGAs. He also gives financial assistance to persons with different health challenges including sponsorship of major surgeries locally and abroad.
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He is very passionate about helping the less-privileged because he believes that ultimately, it is in giving that humanity finds fulfillment. The true worth of a man is in the ways he responds to his environment he often preaches. Most of the beneficiaries of his philanthropy he may never know.
The soft-spoken and down to earth Chief (Barr) Dumo Lulu-Briggs or DLB is married and a father to four beautiful children. He loves administration, sports, writing and philanthropy.
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