Over the past few years, many complex concepts like data science, artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency have received wide fame. A lot of industries have understood the brilliance and usability of these concepts and have started incorporating them.
In Nigeria, the best place to register a trademark is with a trademark agent, who are essentially lawyers. The Firma Advisory has two offices in Nigeria, an office in Lagos and one in Abuja.
In Nigeria, the oil and gas industry is a major source of income. Anyone wishing to start a Nigerian oil and gas business must meet specific statutory obligations. In this reading, the procedure to establish an oil and gas business in Abuja, Lagos, Bayelsa, Port Harcourt, and other oil states in Nigeria
By Chinenye Uwanaka BL, LLB, ACI.Arb (U.K), IPP (Harvard), Nathaniel Ojobo BL, LLB, ACI.Arb (U.K) and Sandra Chude B.sc, LLB, BL, LLM
1. DEFINITION OF THE CONCEPT
Impact investing is the allocation of assets (in the form of investments) into companies or organizations with the aim of bringing about positive social or environmental impact while also anticipating profit from such investments. Impact investment challenges the long-held view that social and environmental issues should be addressed only by philanthropic donations and that market investments should focus exclusively on achieving financial returns.
The strategy actively seeks to make a positive impact by investing, for example, in nonprofits that benefit the community or in clean-technology enterprises that benefit the environment. Impact investing can create significant value for investors and society as a whole. Impact investing attracts individuals as well as institutional investors including hedge funds, private foundations, banks, pension funds, and other fund managers.
In line with today's era of digitalisation of systems and governance, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) is set to commence the full digitalisation of 2,616 oil producing wells in Nigeria. This was made known during its recent workshop on Thursday, 18th July, 2019 for oil and gas operator's compliance officers in Lagos.
Introduction
Ignorance, they say, is the mother of all evils. And true to the above, many Farmers in Nigeria have suffered and are suffering huge losses of their crops and animals due to several issues - ranging from natural disaster to man-made errors - without any form of compensation made to them and to which they could fall back to for support. Usually, this is because Farmers are unaware of the fact that they could have ameliorated their plight by subscribing to a national agricultural insurance policy in existence.
Assent refers to the expression of approval, agreement or permission; especially nonverbal conduct reasonably interpreted as willingness. Assent is signified by means of a signature, mark or other symbol with the intent to authenticate it as an act or agreement of the person identifying it. A signature is the formal indication of agreement with its content.
On 20th May, 2019, the National Insurance Commission (the Commission) in line with its statutory duty of ensuring the effective administration, supervision, regulation and control of insurance business and increasing the minimum paid-up share capital for the various categories of Insurance businesses in Nigeria from time to time (See section 6 of the NAICOM Act and section 6 (4) of the Insurance Act respectively) issued a circular thereby, increasing the minimum paid-up share capital for Insurance and Re-Insurance Companies in Nigeria (though exempting Takaful operators and Micro-Insurance companies from the regulation which respectively cater for the insurance needs of Sharia-compliant and low-income segments of the market).
The incidence of environmental pollution through the inappropriate disposal of plastic bags and its attendant consequences to the environment and human life cannot be over-emphasized.
Research has shown that a single plastic bag could take up to at least a hundred years to at most a thousand years to fully degrade or get decomposed. The effects of this becomes that they get stuck in the soil, thus releasing toxic chemical substances (phythalate acid) that deteriorate the soil’s quality.
In Nigeria, many criminal trials have had the Prosecuting side attempt to convict the Defendant through a confessional statement made by the latter at the Police Station during investigation. In the confessional statement, the Defendant purportedly admits to committing the crime he or she has been charged with. In most of such trials, the Defendant states that he or she actually made the confessional statement but complains afterwards that he or she did so because he or she was beaten, forced, threatened or promised some benefit (for example, release from police custody and termination of the case to avoid prosecution in court).
The term, “locus standi” is Latin and literally means "place of standing". In its expounded legal form, locus standi denotes the legal right or capacity of a person to institute an action in a court of law when his right is trampled upon by somebody or authority. The underpinning behind the idea is that for an individual to be able to bring up a law suit against another, such an individual must show that he has been directly affected by the conduct complained of in the suit. It was evolved to protect the court from being converted into a jamboree by professional litigants or meddlesome interlopers who have no interest in matters. For locus standi to be proven, a plaintiff must establish (1) that the act being challenged has caused the plaintiff actual injury; (2) that the interest sought to be protected is within the zone of interests meant to be regulated by the statutory or constitutional guarantee in question.
A shareholders agreement changes the dynamics among the shareholders of a company from that which exists under basic corporate law. For instance, pursuant to a shareholders' agreement, the minority shareholders of a company are conferred with rights and powers they would not otherwise possess as minority shareholders. Consequently, the majority should appreciate the fact that their powers as the majority could be effectively lost under certain circumstances, for example, if they intentionally allow the board of directors to be purportedly composed of a majority of persons who do not comprise the majority of shareholders.
Apostles in the Market Place (AiMP), recognized The Firma Advisory’s effort in providing access to justice to indigent members of the society and prison inmates. On 29th October, 2018 the Vice President of Nigeria, presented the 2018 AiMP Award/Recognition for Pro-bono Legal Aid and Access to Justice to The Firma Advisory. AiMP also gave awards to other individuals and organizations making impact in the society.
Violence against vulnerable persons, especially women, is prevalent in Nigeria. In addition to physical, sexual and emotional abuse, many women in Nigeria experience female genital mutilation/circumcision, forceful ejection from home, and other harmful and heinous traditional practices stemming from long-held cultural beliefs.
Given the prevalence and intensity of violence against women and girls, it is not surprising thatmany are calling it a pandemic, equal in concern to HIV in Nigeria.
Dual citizenship is also called dual nationality; the term refers to the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries. The question as to whether persons having dual citizenship can contest or continue to hold public office is prevalent and same has been settled by the Nigerian Judiciary. This has given live and meaning to the wordings of the constitution.
The motivation of a single, tariff free continent has featured on the minds of African leaders for a long time given the commonality of trade both historically and contemporaneously. This idea has its roots in the Pan African ideals of the founding fathers of several African Nations who established the founding principles of a single African Continent of political and economic integration. This led to the Organisation of African Unity in 1963 up until the formation of Regional Economic Communities from the 1970s; the desire for closer integrated trade has dominated proceedings at several intergovernmental dialogues.
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