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Nigeria and South Africa remain two of Africa’s most significant energy markets, with substantial natural resources, sophisticated financial ecosystems, and growing ambitions to lead the continent’s evolving energy economy. However, despite their strategic importance, the full potential for cross-border energy investment and collaboration between both jurisdictions remains largely untapped.

The Construction landscape is highly regulated for good reason. A 2025 report by the Building Collapse Prevention Guild says that Nigeria recorded 1,616 deaths from 653 reported building collapse incidents between October 1974 and May 25, 2025, with Lagos alone accounting for about 55.28% of cases

Individuals, communities, and governments worldwide are increasingly turning to litigation to demand accountability for greenhouse gas emissions and environmental harm.

The basis of environmental policy in Nigeria is contained in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

It is no longer just an optional safeguard; it is an essential strategy for any organization aiming to protect its financial health, ensure operational continuity, and maintain its hard-won reputation

Mining is the process of extracting valuable or geological materials such as metals, bitumen, iron ore coal, gemstones, gold, limestone, tin as well as some other valuable minerals from the earth.

A practical insight to cross-border Gas Regulation work, abrief outline of the Nigeria’s natural gas sector.

Gas flaring has been a source of pollution in the Niger Delta region for more than six decades, polluting the atmosphere the soil, and eroding the lives of communities living in one of the most oil-rich regions in Africa. The Nigerian government's efforts at solving this environmental problem have been characterized by delay and capture. The enactment of the Petroleum Industry Act 20212 represents the most ambitious legislative attempt yet to bring routine flaring to an end, through an explicit statutory prohibition, mandatory monetisation planning, and a new institutional architecture anchored around the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission.

ESG — which stands for Environmental, Social and Governance — ensures that with the application of these three criteria, a company's method of operations is considered alongside its profitability.

Nigeria's energy industry is at the intersection of massive economic aspirations and significant environmental threats. The Niger Delta has been subjected to decades of oil extraction, which have left it mired in some of the world's worst pollution crises, but the individual corporate directors have escaped liability for the devastation that their companies wreak on the environment.

A brief outline of your jurisdiction's natural gas sector, including a general description of: natural gas reserves; natural gas production including the extent to which production is associated...

The rapid evolution of Nigeria's urban real estate landscape — particularly in Lagos, Abuja and emerging mixed-use corridors — has intensified legal disputes surrounding communal spaces, estate governance, restrictive covenants and reciprocal obligations among property owners.

Deal-making is often treated as a mechanical process: proposals exchanged, terms reviewed, risk mitigated, and contracts signed.

Although Nigeria has for several decades established herself as a major producer of crude oil, she has often been rightly described as "a gas province with some oil in it".