Introduction
On Wednesday, August 5, 2020, the
Commissioner for Finance, Lagos State, Dr.
Rabiu Olowo, in a press briefing announced that the Lagos State Government has
decided to review the Land Use Charge Law by reversing the rate of the Land...
Introduction
The Federal
Inland Revenue Service (“FIRS”) on Thursday, 2nd July, 2020 “introduced”
the imposition of stamp duty payment on documents pertaining to tenancy or
lease agreements for homes and offices, certificates of occupancy, as well as...
Introduction
The
Covid-19 pandemic has occasioned widespread remote working on a scale never before
seen. Man’s primordial instincts of survival, coupled with government’s
directives and medical advisory on the need for social distancing, have all left
the...
Introduction
On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 the Federal High Court of Nigeria
(Abuja Judicial Division), per Honourable (Mr.) Justice J. T. Tsoho, CJ, in the case of Kehinde
Ogunwumiju, SAN v Nigeria Customs Service Board
and Anor[1],
delivered...
Background:
Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) released its 2020 Guidelines for the management of personal data by public institutions in Nigeria on May 18, 2020 (the Guidelines). NITDA while acknowledging that governments...
Introduction
The Nigerian constitutional
jurisprudence is no bed fellows with presidential Executive Orders as is
prevalent in other democracies like the United States of America. In the
history of the Nigerian nascent democracy, no civilian president...
Introduction
In response to the challenges of having physical meetings occasioned by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Nigerian Stock Exchange (“the Exchange”), on April 15, 2020, published the Guidance on Companies\’ Virtual Board, Committee...
Introduction:
With the effect of the Corona Virus Disease (“Covid-19”), Organizations all around the world have compulsorily had to migrate their daily business activities and transactions to remote work platforms. Ordinarily, an organization would test...
Background:
Lagos
State (the “State”) currently has about 50% of the COVID-19 cases in
Nigeria. Considered the 5th largest economy in Africa, the State
with its estimated 20 million population, which is about 10% of Nigeria’s
population, is a significant...
Contract of Employment entails:
Two Parties – Employer and Employee
Offer and Acceptance of terms of employment – e.g. role, entitlements/benefits, termination and resignation.
Attributes rights and obligations between the parties.
The purpose of an employment...