For an employment relationship that is not clothed with statutory flavor, a contract of employment is the basis of that relationship. In a contract of employment, the terms of the relationship, benefits, and responsibilities of the employer and employee are clearly stated. Such terms may include salary, retirement benefits, company policies, and termination.
The Nigerian Startup Act, 2022 (the “Act”) was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on 19 October 2022. The Act aims to provide a legal and institutional framework for the development of startups in Nigeria by providing an enabling environment for the establishment, development, and operation of startups in Nigeria, providing for the development and growth of technology-related talent, and positioning Nigeria’s startup ecosystem as the leading digital technology centre in Africa, having excellent innovators with cutting edge skills and exportable capacity.
The digital world is here to stay. It is the new normal. This realization was responsible for the conclusion of the OECD that the digital economy cannot be ringfenced for tax purposes as digitalization has imprinted virtually every sector of the world’s economies.
In this series of questions and answers, we provide an overview of the competition-related aspect of the merger control process in Nigeria
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
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
It is generally assumed by some cloud customers in Nigeria that since they do not provide the cloud service, they have no compliance obligation if the cloud service is used to process the personal data of individuals in Nigeria. But as will be explained below, this is incorrect and not always the case according to the provision of the Nigerian Data Protection Regulations 2019 (NDPR) issued by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).
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