# The Sovereign Confrontation: When a Government Publicly Blames Your Company

> For chief executives and boards of African groups. Learn to read a public confrontation with the state, audit your own facts, use proper channels, protect…

- Provider: BrandsClass Executive Academy (a Brands Nexus Network Limited company)
- Format: online lessons, then a live virtual boardroom simulation with AI board members, scored against a published rubric
- Duration: about 240 minutes (9 lessons)
- Access: 365 days from the day you start
- Price: ₦298,000 (NGN)
- Certificate: a certificate that anyone can verify online. It is not a regulated or accredited qualification.
- Level: Boardroom
- Who it is for: Chief executives, chairs, general counsel, government-affairs heads and finance chiefs of African groups that a government body could publicly blame for a shortage, price rise or tax gap.
- Page: https://brandsclass.com/courses/the-sovereign-confrontation-when-a-government-publicly-blames-your-company/
- Last updated: 2026-10-14

## What you will learn

- Read the form, motive and powers behind a public confrontation, and adopt three principles: respect, honesty and lawfulness
- Run an independent facts audit that separates what you got wrong from what you got right
- Use formal channels and a respectful, firm tone, and refuse back-channels that look like influence
- Manage the legal track: notices, deadlines, inspections, rights and consistent statements
- Protect licences, banks, supply and staff while the dispute lasts, and refuse every shortcut
- Keep staff, customers, lenders, development partners and international audiences consistently informed
- Find credible allies within the law, offer off-ramps, and repair the relationship afterwards

## Lessons

1. Reading the confrontation
2. The facts audit: what is true about us
3. Channels and tone: how to speak to the state
4. The legal and regulatory track
5. Operating under pressure
6. Staff, customers and partners
7. Investors, lenders and international audiences
8. Allies and coalitions, within the law
9. De-escalation and the long game

## How to enrol

Open https://brandsclass.com/courses/the-sovereign-confrontation-when-a-government-publicly-blames-your-company/ to create a free account and buy a seat.