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Leveraging Technology to Promote Employee Well-being and Productivity; Best Practices, Legal Aspects, and Go-Forward Strategies

INTRODUCTION An employee’s well-being is an important consideration and challenge for organizations because good well-being extends beyond a comfortable office environment. The employee’s well-being reflects the office environment and its influence on the mental and physical health of the employee. Workplace well-being relates to every area of one’s working life, from the quality and safety […]

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Enhancing Transparency And Accountability In The Extractive Industries: A Review Of The Eiti Standards 2023

INTRODUCTION Axiomatically, some countries with humongous levels of energy resources are bedevilled with an excruciating level of poverty, energy deficit problems, deteriorating environment, and corruption to the extent that researchers have termed them as resource-cursed. Academics, political analysts, legal scholars and international institutions have established that the publication of adequate information on how extractive resources […]

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 Nigeria Data Protection Commission (Ndpc) Compliance Audit Returns (“Cars”) Alert

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) in November 2023, published a Guidance Notice concerning annual Data Protection Compliance Audit Returns. The filing of Annual Data Protection Compliance Audit Returns is an obligation for data controllers and processors under the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019, and the enactment of the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 brought […]

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Cross Border Data Transfer: Navigating Compliance Under Nigeria’s Data Protecting Act 2023.

It is without peradventure that the nature of technology use has occasioned a near borderless global society as personal data flows in trillions of bytes across borders. The recently enacted Nigeria Data Protection Act (the Act) 2023, occasioned a modification of the data privacy and protection landscape in Nigeria, and notable among the innovations of […]

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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) And Trademark Infringement: Real-World IP Rights in the Virtual Space: Art, Technology, and the Law?

From the Bored Apes collection to Jack Dorsey’s auctioned Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) of his first-ever tweet, “just setting up my twttr”, which sold for over US$2.9 million, the creation and sale of NFTs is one that took the world by storm, generating millions for its owners, and establishing a whole new branch of blockchain exchange; […]

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Investment Guide: Doing Business In Nigeria

With immense growth in technology and globalization, cross-border investments have taken prime positions in global economies. As a developing country with immeasurable growth potential, Nigeria ranks as the largest oil producer in Africa and the 11th largest oil producer in the world. Aside from available oil and gas reserves, Nigeria has enormous mineral resources, such […]

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The Senate and the House of Representatives have passed the Finance Bill 2022

Background The National Assembly passed the Finance Bill 2022 (“the Finance Bill”) on 28 December 2022. The Finance Bill introduces certain amendments to existing tax laws including the Companies Income Tax Act (CITA), Customs, Excise Tariff, etc. (Consolidation) Act, Personal Income Tax Act (PITA), Petroleum Profits Tax Act (PPTA), Stamp Duties Act, the Capital Gains […]

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CBN calls for Expression of Interest to participate in its Regulatory Sandbox

In furtherance of the CBN’s objective to deepen financial inclusion in Nigeria, the apex financial regulator has invited innovators to submit their expression of interest to participate in its Regulatory Sandbox (the “Sandbox”) in accordance with its Framework for Regulatory Sandbox Operations before the 1st of February 2023. Application is via the link https://sandbox.cbn.gov.ng/ The […]