The Nigerian Legal Practitioners Act requires that only lawyers enrolled as solicitors and advocates of the Supreme Court through passing the qualifying bar exams or by special warrant of the Chief Justice of Nigeria or the Attorney General are qualified to practice law or provide legal services in Nigeria. However, this law was first enacted in 1962 and did not contemplate the effect of globalization on law practice or the internationalization of the supply of legal services in modes 1 to 4 as described in this presentation. In some sense one could say that like the United Kingdom, Nigeria practices a full licensing approach because under Sections 2, 4 of the LPA, foreign lawyers are allowed to practice in Nigeria without restrictions as to scope subject to qualification requirements i.e. through examination and admission into the Nigerian Bar