In Nigeria, enforcing a judgment is a complex process that is bedevilled with challenges that can hinder a judgment creditor from enjoying the fruits of his or her judgment.

Corporate governance is considered to be the mainstay of modern day entrepreneurship.

Ultimately the movement of people and a common currency are expected to evolve in the free trade area.

The overall objective of the Compendium is to promote new and incremental investments in Nigeria.

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The mailing system will amongst other things enable litigants and opposing parties file and serve their processes online without necessarily visiting the Supreme Court.

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Advance Cargo Declaration Regulations, 2024 (the "Regulation"), establishes a technology-driven system that mandates the electronic submission...

In light of the recent global and economic financial crisis, particularly in Nigeria, business enterprises and Governments alike have realized the important need to diversify in the area of raising capital to finance capital projects.

The effect therefore is that such action will be struck out.

Therefore, unless where an applicant withdraws his application by a written notice to the company, the contract takes effect on the date on which the allotment is communicated by the company.

An interesting development in recent United States ("US") financial reform legislation is a disclosure obligation contained in a miscellaneous provision of the proposed Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act approved by the US House of Representatives on June 30, 2010 and by the Senate on July 15, 2010. According to section 1504 of the Bill, titled "Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers",

The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced the appointment of Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke as Minister of Petroleum.

The Regulations 2018 takes precedence over regulations issued by the Minister of Petroleum Resources prior to 2018.

Some acts which constitute money laundering under the act are spelt out in Section 15 of the Act.

Over the years, exploration and production (“E&P”) companies have relied on a range of traditional financing mechanisms to fund acquisitions and develop projects. Among these mechanisms, Reserve-Based Lending (“RBL”) has emerged as a distinctive and increasingly utilised financing option within the oil and gas industry.

The promulgation of the Land Use Decree in 1978, brought about the vesting of exclusive powers over land comprised in the territory of any given State in the Governor of the State.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's Executive Order 9 of 2026 introduces sweeping fiscal reforms to Nigeria's oil and gas sector, suspending key revenue allocations to NNPCL and redirecting petroleum...

One of the challenges encountered while trying to enforce monetary judgments in Nigeria by way of garnishee proceedings is that often, garnishee banks feel obligated to stonewall the judgment enforcement process by asserting certain rights or interests over judgment sums standing in the credit of judgment debtors in their custody.

The Investments and Securities Act (“new ISA”) was passed into law in June 2007. The Act was enacted to repeal the Investments and Securities Act 1999 (“old ISA”) and to establish the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission” or “SEC”) as the apex regulatory authority for the Nigerian capital market as well as regulation of the market to ensure the protection of investors, maintain fair, efficient and transparent market and the reduction of systemic risk.

The Petroleum Industry Bill, which promises to change the landscape of Nigeria’s petroleum industry was submitted by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government to the National Assembly in December 2008.