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The Nigerian Federal High Court Declares the Tax Appeal Tribunal Unconstitutional...

The act of detention of a chattel or seizing of property belonging to another and refusing to deliver up the property upon demand by the owner is called "detinue" in law.

There has been an uproar in the media (both print and across social media platforms) about the Nigerian government allegedly ceding its sovereignty to China by virtue

The decision OF THE SUPREME COURT in Citec int'l estates ltd v edicomsa int'l inc & associates.

Nigerian creditors often resort to various means to recover their debts from debtors and their business partners.

In VoiceWeb International Limited v. Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services & Ors (2021) CA/L/794/2021 (unreported)—a case in which our firm represented the first respondent...

In a landmark decision delivered on 23 February 2018 in the case of Heritage Bank Ltd v. Bentworth Finance (Nig) Ltd, the Supreme Court of Nigeria appeared to abandon in part ...

In a decision handed down on Thursday 18th August 2016, a full panel of Abuja division of the Court of Appeal seemed to have taken a novel

When enforcing monetary claims in Nigeria, obtaining a favourable judgment is only one part of the process, as the judgment must still be enforced if the debtor refuses to pay the judgment sum.

Overtime, it has continued to be a raging controversy among legal minds on whether leave of Court should indeed be required for service of an originating process sealed from the registry of a State judicial division of the Federal High Court of Nigeria to another.

The Court of Appeal has consistently reiterated the principle down the years in the following line of cases:

In a landmark decision delivered on 22 November 2024, the Supreme Court nullified the National Lottery Act 2005 (‘NLA'), which established the National Lottery Regulatory Commission...

The Court of Appeal (CoA), in December 2018, upheld the ruling of Federal High Court (FHC) on the liability of educational institutions to pay companies income tax (CIT).

Perhaps, what is required in Nigeria is categorization of the educational institutions into proprietary educational institutions and not-for-profit educational institutions.

Just recently, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (the "FIRS") suspended its very controversial mandate to banks.

In a landmark decision delivered on February 25, 2026, the Court of Appeal in Strickland Services Limited v. Akwa Ibom State Internal Revenue Service & Anor nullified the Akwa Ibom State Maritime Sector (Regulation) Law 2017 and ...

Denied boarding is a distressing experience that occurs when an airline refuses to allow a passenger to board a flight, despite holding a valid ticket and having fulfilled all necessary requirements.

More often than not, parties to a contract expect that where they intend to enter into a written contract, until the terms of their agreement to contract are reduced into writing and signed by them...