The most topical issue in the case of FEDERAL REP. OF NIGERIA VS, FEMI FANI KAYODE, FHC/L/523C/08 before Hon. Justice Ramat Mohammed was whether a computer generated statement of account is inadmissible under Section 97 of the Nigerian Evidence Act, and s
The Lagos State Government has signed into Law a bill for the regulation, standardisation and grading of Hotels and other Tourism businesses in Lagos State.
The global recession is contributing to the escalation of employment related litigation in Nigeria. An insufficient appreciation of the difference between a termination of an employment contract with a dismissal of an employee from his employment is also
The number of Nigerian companies applying for and obtaining pioneer status approval has dwindled considerably in the last decade with the attendant decrease in the benefits inherent in the possession of a pioneer’s status certificate.
The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.
The objective of tourism and hospitality development and promotion in Nigeria continues to meet with minimal success due to lack of basic infrastructure and enlightenment on the economic, social, political and health benefits of tourism and the hospitalit
Declining oil revenues with declining infrastructural facilities that are unable to match an over-populated State, etc has led to the Lagos State Government passing into Law the Lagos State Hotel Occupancy, Restaurants and Events Centres Consumption Tax L
On September 29th Indonesia’s parliament passed an anti-corruption court bill. Although full details of the new law have yet to emerge, its implications for Indonesia’s legal system
One of the few Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases to have gone to trial ended on July 10 2009 with the jury's conviction of Frederic Bourke in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
During June and July 2009 the Joint Committee on the Draft Bribery Bill heard oral evidence and received written submissions from the attorney general, the Ministry of Justice, the Law Commission, defence lawyers, prosecutors, academics, non-governmental
The international financial crisis has led to a flurry of legislative activity as governments around the world have sought to counteract its effects and prevent them from reoccurring.