In the aftermath of AFCON, Legal Business Day sits with Beverley Agbakoba-Onyejianya, the head of Olisa Agbakoba Legal's Sports, Entertainment, and Technology Practice Group, to discuss the dynamics of Nigerian sports law.

Betting companies are no longer a novel thing in Nigeria. With the growing number of betting companies and businesses in Nigeria, the betting company accounts for a large part of the country's economy.

In the modern sporting arena, competition is no longer confined to the 90 minutes on a pitch or the seconds on a track. We have entered an era where sports is a sophisticated global ecosystem powered...

A Nigerian court has ruled that professional football clubs and governing bodies bear legally enforceable obligations to players that extend beyond salary payments, encompassing medical welfare, insurance coverage...

Majority of young people enrol in football academies with the specific goal of learning how to become elite professional football players.

Football as a sport has been transformed lately far beyond activities for mere pleasure, pastime and entertainment into a highly commercialized and lucrative industry.

Since the legalization of sports betting in Nigeria, it became a legitimate form of entertainment that the general public embraced and while well-intentioned sportsbooks began to appear in ...

Sports disputes arise more often than those outside the industry realise and can take on many forms, from the complex and contentious, such as doping and integrity disputes...

Based on statistics, around 66% of people in Nigeria have made a bet on a sporting event at least once in their lives. That is a significant amount of gambling. Online gaming is massive and developing at...

In an attempt to quantify and codify responsible investment practices, the United Nations coined the phrase environmental, social, and governance (ESG) in 2005.

Club football spending has spiraled in the last few years. The Roman Abramovich revolution that saw the Russian Oil mogul acquire Chelsea Football Club and loosen the purse-strings by signing new players shook the footballing world.

FIFA has a long history of regulating players' and agents' relationships going back about 3 decades. The last comprehensive system for agents was promulgated in 2008 and required...

The Technology, Entertainment, Media, and Sports (TEMS) sector in 2024 stood at the crossroad of innovation, regulation, and industry evolution

As a young striker, Ugo Obi's agility and impressive control over the ball on the football field quickly distinguished him from his peers.

When Southampton Football Club was expelled from the EFL Championship Play-Offs just days before the Wembley final, it marked one of English football's most consequential disciplinary decisions. What legal principles justified such a severe sanction for observing rival teams' training sessions?

Setting up a sports betting company in Nigeria involves several important steps, including complying with both federal and state regulations, obtaining the necessary licenses, and setting up your

In October 19, 1972, the first ever video game tournament took place at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab in California.

As the commercial stakes in sports continue to rise thanks to private sector investments, more government funding, cross-border collaborations, etc., this has led to a corresponding growth of sports-related disputes.

The world of sports is filled with high-stakes competitions, lucrative sponsorships, and complex contractual agreements. With so much on the line, disputes are inevitable.

Typically, disputes arising from sporting activities are subject to internal dispute resolution mechanisms within the various sports agencies.