Questions To Ask A Birth Injury Lawyer If You’ve Been Affected
Typically, having a baby can be one of the happiest events that can occur in a woman’s life. Women will do everything they can to ensure the welfare of their baby from the formation to delivery. However, you can’t take care of your own flesh and blood at all times, especially in cases when your
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J.B. Daudu SAN: Twenty-Five Years of Excellence
Let me join the multitude of your admirers, seniors, colleagues and juniors alike to say big congratulations to a quintessential Lawyer and a forensic Advocate, on his attainment of Twenty-Five (25) years of conferment with the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) today. In July this year, he would be Forty (40) years
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A Pandemic and Patentee Rights in a Regime of Compulsory License
As much as the Corona Virus pandemic has continually claimed lives around the world, the quest to produce medication and machines to tackle this scourge has been ongoing. Advancement in science and technology has led researchers around the globe to commit themselves to developing vaccines that will prevent people from falling ill in the first
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COVID-19: Impact on the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry
Obsolete legal, fiscal and regulatory frameworks, uncertainty over pending laws, insecurity and bureaucratic inefficiency have all been identified as perennial challenges facing the Nigerian oil and gas industry (“the Industry”). The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and subsequent measures implemented to flatten the curve have resulted in disruptions of epic proportions – the Industry
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Oral Tenancy Agreements are Legal in Nigeria but not Advisable
The purpose of this article is to illuminate on some key aspects of tenancy agreements in general and the position of parties to an oral tenancy agreement in particular.
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FCCPC Update on Operational Priorities and Measures on Consumer Protection during COVID-19 Pandemic
FCCPC UPDATE FCCPC OPERATIONAL PRIORITIES AND MEASURES ON CONSUMER PROTECTION DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC Pursuant to Sections 70 -75; 107, 108, 116, 123 -127; Wednesday, April 22, 2020: This is an update to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission’s Release of February 28, 2020; and Update of March 24, 2020. The Commission’s current operational priorities
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Equity Crowdfunding in Nigeria
THE ISSUERS In simple terms, the issuer is the enterprise that seeks to raise capital through the Crowdfunding portal. A Crowdfund offering by an issuer can only be made on one portal and such offering shall not be open for more than 60 days. The Crowdfunding portal is tasked with the responsibility of setting a
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Employment and Labour Relations Issues Arising from COVID 19
The outbreak of the novel Coronavirus Disease- (COVID-19) – has brought about a global economic downturn and negative impact on global commercial activities with economies at the brink of a recession. Generally, labour relations are governed by the labour legislations in different countries and more specifically by contracts of employment, which spell out the terms
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YLF Hosts Dialogue With NBA Assistant Publicity Secretary on NBA and the Place of Young Lawyers
NBA Young Lawyers Forum invites you to join in on a Chat with the Nigerian Bar Association titled: ”A Dialogue on NBA and the Place of Young Lawyers” This discussion is particularly important and quite timely in view of the numerous challenges being faced by Young Lawyers which include but not limited to unemployment, underemployment,
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Should the ‘Richest Lawyer’ be the NBA President?
If you are a practicing Nigerian lawyer and you have not come across any of the campaign fliers, messages and statements issued by aspirants to the various offices of the NBA come July, 2020, then I wonder how you have been practicing in isolation all this time. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Whatsapp are filled with
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