Effective 1st January 2025, the Nigerian Trademarks Registry announced the implementation of a serial numbering system for all trademark applications.

In recent years, Nigeria has experienced a dramatic rise in social media usage and digital content creation. According to Statista, as of January 2023, Nigeria had 31.6 million active social media users.

The global maritime industry is at a critical juncture, as the urgency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has reached unprecedented levels. In response, the International Maritime Organization...

Over the years, power markets worldwide have relied on contractual frameworks to allocate risks, ensure revenue certainty, and facilitate investment in capital-intensive infrastructure.

Artificial intelligence systems are already processing personal data and making consequential decisions across Nigerian industries, from finance to healthcare. While many assume AI remains unregulated in Nigeria until dedicated legislation arrives, organisations deploying credit-scoring algorithms, automated recruitment tools, and clinical decision-support models may already be subject to binding legal obligations under the country's existing data protection framework.

Nigeria's financial sector in 2025 witnessed transformative developments characterised by strategic policy reforms, enhanced regulatory frameworks, and significant infrastructure investments aimed...

Nigeria's healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors stand at a pivotal moment. An overwhelming demand for quality healthcare services is rising, local drug manufacturing is gaining policy support...

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has officially removed Nigeria from its Grey List, signaling renewed international confidence in the country's efforts...

The Nigerian Federal Government in January inaugurated implementation committees to drive the execution of Nigeria's National Intellectual Property Policy and Strategy (NIPPS), marking a shift from policy adoption...

The third quarter of 2025 saw notable developments across Nigeria's intellectual property (IP) and regulatory space.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has introduced sweeping changes to the country's import tariff structure and excise regime through the 2026 Fiscal Policy Measures, effective from April and July 2026. These reforms, implemented under Nigeria's commitments to the ECOWAS Common External Tariff and the African Continental Free Trade Area, include a revised schedule of 127 tariff lines affecting food products, industrial inputs, and capital equipment, alongside new excise duties and green tax surcharges design

Major sporting events like the FIFA World Cup, the Olympics, and the Super Bowl attract billions of viewers and bring people together across cultures.

Nigeria's energy sector experienced significant turbulence in Q1 2026 as geopolitical conflict in the Middle East drove crude oil prices from $74 to over $110 per barrel, forcing domestic petrol prices to surge above N1,175 per litre. The quarter revealed both the stabilizing potential of domestic refining capacity and persistent vulnerabilities across upstream production, power grid infrastructure, and downstream fuel markets.

Nigeria's pension industry faces a transformative period as the National Pension Commission introduces revised minimum capital requirements for Pension Fund Administrators and Pension Fund Custodians, with a compliance deadline of 30 June 2027. This regulatory shift will compel operators and their shareholders to fundamentally reassess their capital positions, funding capabilities, and strategic direction for the future.

Data has become the defining asset of the digital economy, shaping how services are delivered and how innovation is achieved across sectors such as finance, healthcare, telecommunications, energy, and transportation.

Data has become the defining asset of the digital economy, shaping how services are delivered and how innovation is achieved across sectors such as finance, healthcare, telecommunications, energy, and transportation.

In a significant move to bolster Nigeria's capital market, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed the Investment and Securities Act (ISA) 2025(the "Act") into law on March 29, 2025.

In recent years, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) has emerged as a crucial method for assessing the sustainability and ethical practices of companies and projects across various industries.

Nigeria's capital market has transitioned to a T+1 settlement cycle, reducing the time between trade execution and settlement to one business day. This reform addresses counterparty risk, liquidity constraints and operational inefficiencies that persisted under the previous T+3 and T+2 frameworks, fundamentally reshaping expectations for brokers, custodians and institutional investors.

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (‘the Commission'), on 4th October, 2024, published a press release extending the deadline for the registration...