With a population in excess of 170 million, Nigeria is
far-and-away Africa's most populous nation. Unsurprisingly, it
also has the continent's largest economy. Although the economy
is strongly reliant on oil, there is now a fast-growing services
sector. There's also a rapidly burgeoning middle class, and
with that comes an ever-increasing need for consumer goods.
All of these factors make for a country where trade mark
registration is important. So it's good to know that the trade
mark registration system in Nigeria is in fairly good shape. In
Nigeria, you get trade mark protection by way of national
registrations. That's because Nigeria doesn't belong to
either of the regional registration systems that apply in Africa,
OAPI and ARIPO, nor does it belong to the Madrid system for the
international registration of trade marks.
