Our Team was pleased to offer free legal advisory services at the legal clinic organized by Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church, Gbagada, to sensitize her parishioners as part of the annual Thanksgiving Harvest activities.
The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 19, 2022 (“the Bill”) sought to amend Chapter VII, Part IV of the Principal Act (the 1999 Constitution), by inserting after the existing section 287, a new section ‘287A’, that will comprise 10 (ten) clauses. Clause 2 of the Bill proposed to mandate every trial superior court of record to deliver judgment on a matter before it, within 270 days (about nine months) from the date of the filing.
On 26th February 2021, the National Industrial Court (NIC) per Hon. Justice E. A. Oji, delivered a judgment in Suit No: NICN/LA/411/2020 - Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) & 3 Ors. V. Chevron Nigeria Limited
The FCCPA defnes dominance in section 70(2) as a market situation where an undertaking enjoys a position of economic strength enabling it to prevent effective competition from being maintained on the relevant market and having the power to behave to an appreciable extent independently of its competitors
Private equity (PE) transactions in Nigeria can generally be classified into angel investing, venture capital, growth capital, buyouts (including management buyouts) and mezzanine financing
The Warsaw Convention 1929 was extended to Nigeria by the British colonial government via an order known as the Carriage by Air (Colonies, Protectorates and Other Trust Territories) Order 1953. This Order was repealed by section 77 (1)(a) of the Civil Aviation Act 2006 (CAA 2006). Prior to its repeal, the applicability of the Warsaw Convention as the basis for determining air carrier liability was upheld
The FCCPA defines dominance in section 70(2) as a market situation where an undertaking enjoys a position of economic strength enabling it to prevent effective competition from being maintained on the relevant market and having the power to behave to an appreciable extent independently of its competitors, customers and ultimately consumers
According to Clause 2, the Bill clearly defines its scope as applying to companies incorporated under the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020 (“CAMA”) and registered as start-ups per the provisions of Clause 13 of the Bill, and also organisations whose activities affect the creation, support and incubations of labelled start-ups in Nigeria. Non-technology companies, holding companies or subsidiaries of
Most modern government is made up of three arms working together - namely the Executive, the Judiciary, and the Legislature. The Executive arm is responsible for implementing the laws made by the Legislature and enforcing same, the Legislature is responsible for making the laws, and the Judiciary is responsible for interpreting the law.
The bill seeks to amend the Coastal and Inland Shipping (Cabotage) Act 2003 (“the Principal Act”), to include oil rigs as a vessel, within the meaning of a vessel under the Act, and subject to every other provision of the Act relating to vessels
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