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Property Technology (PropTech) is revolutionizing Nigeria's real estate sector through digital innovation, but operators face complex regulatory compliance challenges across multiple legal frameworks. How can PropTech platforms navigate the intersection of land law, corporate regulations, data protection, and financial compliance while driving sustainable growth in Nigeria's evolving digital real estate ecosystem?

Nigerian law enforcement agencies have increasingly declared individuals "wanted" through public notices and social media without obtaining prior judicial authorization. This practice raises fundamental questions about constitutional rights, due process, and the limits of investigative power under Nigeria's legal framework.

For many litigants in Nigeria, obtaining a court judgment represents years of legal battles, yet the real challenge often begins afterward: recovering the judgment debt when debtors employ sophisticated...

Cybercrime has become a constant source of alarming headlines worldwide, dominating news cycles across tabloids and electronic media. A significant number of individuals globally have fallen victim...

A little storm has been brewing since the $9.6 billion arbitral award against Nigeria in favour of P&ID. The processes leading up to the GSPA agreement subject of the award...

Lagos State is one of Nigeria’s most active gaming markets, covering online sports betting, lottery, casino, promotional competitions, gaming machines, pools betting, scratch cards, interactive games, remote gaming and other related gaming activities.

The concept and use of plea bargain in Nigeria has caused much furore in recent years. This has been because of its use by the EFCC in dealing with cases of corruption by public officials and others holding offices of public trust.

The decision of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in EMTS Ltd v Afdin Ventures Ltd & Ors.,2 signifies a further consolidation of Nigeria’s pro-arbitration jurisprudence within the global framework of international commercial arbitration. The judgment prioritized the efficacy of achieving finality in arbitration proceedings over technical procedural requirements and addressed issues relating to the enforceability of arbitral awards against non-signatories, allegations of fraud in arbitration, judicial intervention in arbitral awards and the need for expeditious determination of arbitration related litigation.

In the case of a void marriage, the court decree is not important to bring the marriage to an end because the parties were never husband and wife in the face of the law in the first instance.

The word ‘absentia’ is a Latin term meaning ‘absence’. Trial in absentia occurs when a defendant is tried in his/her absence. This practice developed from the need to ensure justice and remedy the plague of absconding defendants, a trend that frustrated the judicial process.

The administration of criminal justice in Nigeria, can neither be efficient nor effective where the actors in the ecosystem are not guaranteed their protection.

On the 12th May 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill into Law.

This comprehensive review examines Nigeria's major policy developments introduced in March 2026, spanning tax reform, education verification, humanitarian protection, health regulation, climate risk management, security...

Contactless Payments ("CPs"), aptly described as payments which involve the consummation of financial transactions without physical contact between the payer and the acquiring devices, have been gaining momentum and widespread adoption in recent times.

It is no longer news that Nigerian banks are continually looking for better ways to improve their service delivery to customers, thereby making banking transactions easy, efficient and more secured.

Election matters are very sensitive as they are of paramount significance to all parties concerned: the electorates in particular, who are directly involved; as well as the generality of the Nigerian populace.

Corruption in the extractive sector is a persistent source of concern for the industry.