POST-JUDGMENT INTERESTS IN NIGERIA
Introduction It is common knowledge that the Nigerian Courts will not award a relief that was not expressly claimed by a party at trial because the Courts are prevented from doling out unsolicited gifts like Father Christmas. However, it appears that many companies are unaware of an exception to this rule, which exists in the
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Corporate and Commercial Business Meet: The New Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, 7th of August 2020 in Abuja assented to the Companies and Allied Matters Bill, 2020 recently passed by the National Assembly. The new Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) is Nigeria’s most central and significant business legislation in three decades that affects the corporate and commercial business industry environment in
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#WOCJusticeSummit:Developing an Institutional Concept of Justice in Nigeria | Bode Olanipekun, SAN
Within and outside the Nigerian legal space, there are few words that get more constant reference than the word ’Justice.’ The consistency of its recurrence in our lexicon is indicative of the fact that, almost, if not, everyone with a capacity to reason has a perspective of what ‘Justice’ entails. There is also a natural
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AARE AFE BABALOLA, SAN CONGRATULATES AKPATA ON ELECTION WIN, SAYS AKPATA WILL MAKE AN EXCELLENT PRESIDENT
With almost three weeks gone after Olumide Akpata’s landmark victory at the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) elections, the President-Elect has received goodwill and show of support from various leading lawyers, and national leaders; traditional and political. In a significant show of support earlier today, Nigeria’s foremost legal luminary and Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Aare
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Revised Operational Guidelines for Bureau De Change 2016
On the 30th of November, 2015 the Central Bank of Nigeria released a circular containing revised operational Guidelines for Bureau De Change (BDC) in Nigeria which was to take effect from the 1st of January 2016 and supersede the 2002 BDC operational Guidelines. These Guidelines were aimed at reducing and possibly putting an end to
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Who can legislate on data protection in Nigeria? An Opinion by Olumide Babalola
There is no gainsaying that our country remains on the list of African Countries without a data protection law (the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019 (NDPR) is not considered a law in this context). It is further sad that, in spite of being a signatory to the ECOWAS Supplemantary Act on Personal Data Protection 2010 and African Union Convention on Cyberscurity and Personal Data, we are yet to have a general data protection law.
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AKPATA, OTHERS, SPEAK AT RAMINBA LAND USE CHARGE COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE
The President-Elect of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata, on Thursday 13 August, was a guest of honor at the 1st Commemorative Lecture of the Successful Anti-Lagos State Land Use Charge Law 2018 Protests organized by the Radical Agenda Movement In the Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA) and the Progressive Bar Forum (PBF). Speaking as
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JUSTICE REFORM PROJECT CONGRATULATES NBA PRESIDENT-ELECT, OLUMIDE AKPATA ON ELECTION AS PRESIDENT
The Justice Reform Project (JRP) has congratulated the NBA President-Elect, Olumide Akpata, on his emergence at NBA President. In a letter addressed to the President-Elect last week, the group noted that Akpata’s manifesto included ensuring an efficient administration of justice, and urged him to fulfil same, as his election presented him with a unique opportunity
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J.K GADZAMA, SAN, CONGRATULATES NBA PRESIDENT-ELECT, OLUMIDE AKPATA ON HIS VICTORY AT THE POLLS, WISHES HIM A SUCCESSFUL TENURE
In the weeks following Olumide Akpata’s landslide win at the NBA elections, congratulatory messages have poured in from all corners. One of such is from Joe Kyari Gadzama, SAN. The learned Silk in a letter addressed to Mr. Akpata on the 7th of August 2020, congratulated Mr. Akpata on his emergence as President of the
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Examining the Propriety of the NIPOST Regulations under National Enactments
On the 23rd of July 2020, the Nigerian Postal Service (“NIPOST”) released new operational guidelines for courier and logistic operators and which they dubbed “Courier and Logistics Operations 2020”. This guideline was issued following the approval of the Federal Government via the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami. The new price table
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