Arbitration vs. Litigation in Nigeria: How to Choose the Right Forum for Your Commercial Dispute
Dispute Resolution Practice Group Introduction When a commercial dispute arises in Nigeria, one of the first and most consequential decisions a business must make is “where do we resolve this?” The answer is not always obvious and getting it wrong choosing a forum that is too slow, too public, too expensive, or simply inappropriate for […]
Title Perfection in Nigeria: Why Your Property Is Not Truly Yours Until This Is Done
Real Estate & Property Law Practice Group Introduction There is a quiet legal crisis running through Nigeria’s property market. It sits in the gap between what people believe they own and what the law actually recognises. Millions of Nigerians have paid full purchase price for land, taken physical possession, and lived on or developed the […]
Raising Capital in Nigeria: The Legal Difference Between Private Placement and Public Offer
Capital Markets Practice Group Introduction For any Nigerian business seeking to raise capital beyond its existing shareholders, two routes dominate the landscape: the private placement and the public offer. These are not merely different fundraising mechanisms, they represent fundamentally different legal regimes, with different disclosure obligations, regulatory requirements, eligible investor pools, and consequences for failure […]
Employment Contracts in Nigeria: Seven Clauses Employers Cannot Afford to Miss
Labour & Employment Practice Group INTRODUCTION The employment contract is the foundational legal instrument of every employer-employee relationship in Nigeria. It is also, in our experience, the document most frequently executed with insufficient care. Most Nigerian businesses use template contracts downloaded from the internet, inherited from a predecessor employer, or drafted without reference to the […]
Nigeria’s Data Protection Act 2023: Five Compliance Obligations Every Company Should Know
By Mide Alabi, Esq If your business collects, stores, or processes personal data about Nigerian residents, you are subject to the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (NDPA).1 That covers a wider range of businesses than most founders and executives initially assume. A fintech collecting BVN numbers, a logistics company storing delivery addresses, a hospital maintaining […]
Debt Financing in Nigeria: What Every Borrower Must Understand Before Signing a Loan Agreement
By; Banking & Finance Practice Group INTRODUCTION Access to debt financing is, for most Nigerian businesses, not merely a commercial objective it is a precondition for growth. Whether the facility in question is a term loan from a deposit money bank, a revolving credit facility from a non-bank financial institution, or a multi-bank syndicated arrangement, […]
Why Every Nigerian Business Needs a Shareholders’ Agreement Before the First Deal
INTRODUCTION In also a decade of corporate commercial practice, I have observed one pattern with remarkable consistency: Nigerian businesses tend to run into their most destructive legal problems not because they broke any law, but because they never agreed, in writing and with legal precision, on what would happen when things changed. A founding partner […]
CBN Circular PSS/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/004 (15 June 2026):New Rules on Data Localisation, Beneficial Ownership Disclosure & Market Concentration in the Nigerian Digital Payments Ecosystem
On 15 June 2026, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) issued Circular No. PSS/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/004 (the Circular) through the Payments System Supervision Department, signed by its Director, Dr. Rakiya O. Yusuf. The Circular introduces three sweeping categories of obligations applicable to virtually all participants in Nigeria’s digital payments industry: Download full Regulatory Alert to read more
WHEN THE CONSTITUTION SPEAKS: A Legal Appraisal of the Federal High Court Order Directing INEC to Deregister Five Political Parties
INTRODUCTIONOn 15th June 2026, Justice Peter Odo Lifu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja delivered a judgment with significant implications for Nigeria’s political landscape ahead of the 2027 general elections. In Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/2637/2026 — instituted by the Incorporated Trustees of the National Forum of Former Legislators — the court ordered the Independent […]
Bridging Nigeria’s Energy Access Gap with Distributed Solar & Clean Technologies
Nigeria faces chronic electricity shortfalls — frequent outages affect millions of households and businesses. Grid extension is slow and costly, leaving vast rural areas permanently off-grid. Diesel/petrol generators remain the dominant backup — expensive, noisy, and environmentally damaging. Distributed solar and mini-grids are growing rapidly as sustainable alternatives, serving off-grid communities directly. Click here to […]
