Welcome to NJ Ayuk Profile

Most Decorated Professional Career

As a renowned industry professional, NJ Ayuk was highly involved in the core processes of structuring, conciliation and execution of major work processes for major industrial sectors like petroleum, mining, LNG, and other natural resource projects. Moreover, if we count upon his big clientele base, the list includes some of the biggest industrial giants like Equatorial Guinea, South Sudan, Uganda, and Angola, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria, Senegal, and other sub-Saharan countries. This is where Nj Ayuk Guardian is coming with all the right expertise and some big experience in negotiating and supporting  PSCs, EPSAs, JOAs, service agreements, concessions, oilfield service, and drilling contracts, while also managing other aspects like licensing, pipeline and marine transportation issues. It must be mentioned that his firm was actively involved in the sale and transportation of LNG to more than 15 African countries.

Nj Ayuk Centurion Law Group

If we talk about his most recent works in the specific domains, he has helped the Ministry of Petroleum and Energies of Senegal, the Ministry of Petroleum of South Sudan and the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons of Equatorial Guinea in the best implementation of their local policies and business strategies.  Mr. NJ Ayuk has always ensured his involvement in major functions like strategic investments and projects that have been rightly designed and developed to better serve Africa’s energy sector in recent years. Moreover, he has also ensured his active involvement in the drafting process of South Sudan’s first exploration and manufacture sharing agreement, along with the launch of the famous Equatorial Guinea’s offshore gas mega-hub in 2019 that grabbed all the news for being one of its kind projects around the whole African continent.

Career Achievement

NJ Ayuk has also served the United Nations a few years back and now he is using the same expertise and experience in supervising various legal advancement issues, rule of law issues. Besides this, he is also pushing the training process of African judges, lawyers, and prosecutors on a Pro Bono basis. Mr. NJ Ayuk further participated in various domain-specific seminars and conferences and grabbed all the appreciation and accolades as an active speaker and moderator.

 He has enlisted himself into the category of one of the best African legal professionals who have driven the African legal industry into the 21 century with the launch of Centurion Plus, a firm that has come up as Africa's first lawyers and Advisors on-demand service to facilitate businesses and firms to equip their legal teams as per the given required projects and challenges.

NJ Ayuk has also featured in numerals blogs and journals and one of his recent mentions did come in Chambers, Who's who legal and the very famous Forbes magazine. Additionally, he has also been the author to some of the most recognized industry best-sellers like Big Barrels: African Oil and Gas and the Quest for Prosperity. There he talked about Africa’s oil and gas structure while quoting a better and clearer picture of African entrepreneurs and economies.

Looking into his academics, NJ Ayuk has finished up his graduation from one of the most recognized University of Maryland College Park and further secured a  JD from William Mitchell College of Law in the United States. He has also secured an MBA degree from the New York Institute of Technology while also serving over as an active member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN), the Institute for Energy Law (IEL) and the Petroleum Joint Venture Association (PJVA).