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Maritime law, also known as admiralty law, has a rich history dating back centuries. Its origins can be traced to ancient civilizations like the Greeks and Romans, who established principles governing maritime trade and navigation.

In view of resurging sector reforms in the Nigerian extractive sector and global rise in commodity prices, local interests in mining have since grown especially considering its potential for inter sectoral growth...

In his contribution to this symposium on Eleanor Fox and Mor Bakhoum's book, Making Markets Work for Africa: Markets, Development, and Competition Law in Sub-Saharan Africa (OUP, 2019), Jasper Lubeto notes the omission of Nigeria, ...

A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Nigeria has quietly shaken the foundations of Nigerian employment law. In Skye Bank Plc v. Adedokun Adegun ("Adegun")...

The main arbitration law of Nigeria is the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1988 (Cap A18 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004). ACA is largely based on the UNCITRAL Model Law, with minimal differences.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) is a highly infectious disease which was first discovered in Wuhan China in 2019 and has been declared a global pandemic due to its ravaging impact across continents of the world.

The Nigeria Stock Exchange on Thursday 15th November 2018 issued its Sustainability Disclosure Guidelines following approval of the Nigerian Stock Exchange on the 9th day November 2018.

The Nigerian Constitution has always allowed component States in the country the authority to generate, transmit and distribute electricity within their territory.

The feeling of control, sense of security and certainty is something that everyone covets and pursues when entering into commercial arrangements.

From supporting the tourism and hospitality sector, to promoting global trade and international or diplomatic relations, the aviation sector contributes a heavy quota to the Nigerian economy.

From the Spanish Flu of 1918 to the HIV/AIDS saga and down to the Ebola virus, infectious diseases have constantly changed the modus operandi in all aspects of human living.

Suppose you've signed a contract, whether as a business owner, executive, or have reviewed the contents of a contract as a lawyer, company secretary or even as a Judicial officer.

The Nigerian Constitution always allowed component States in the country the authority to generate, transmit and distribute electricity within their territory. However...

Generally, the benefits of an appellate review system in law can never be overestimated. Whether in formal legal settings or in the most remote forms of family or customary methods of dispute resolution, the importance of appeals remains high in ensuring the enthronement of fairness and equity in the adjudicatory system as well as upholding the integrity and confidence in such system.

It has become common practice for parties to insert an arbitration clause in their contracts stating arbitration as the agreed mechanism and proper forum for resolving any dispute that may arise from such contracts.

The COVID pandemic has wreaked havoc on economies of the world, on a global scale as economists and fiscal policy experts associate its effect as the worst global economic crisis of the century in comparison with the global economic recession of 2008 and the economic depression of the 1930s.

Arbitration has over the years, evolved to become one of the most preferred methods of dispute resolution amongst national and multi-national undertakings.

Paper presented by the 2016 PUNUKA Annual Lecture. Guest Lecturer, Prof. Robert Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, Center for Business and Government, ...