Introduction Businesses rise and fall as a result of how they deal with their intellectual property among other things. The intellectual property of a business includes trade marks, patents, designs and copyrights. While the above may be true for businesses, it may not be for personalities. It is undoubtedly the fact that celebrities across various...Read More

This paper seeks to shed more light on the provisions of the law relating to taxation of religious bodies. This has become necessary to balance the state of our laws with the emotion-laden clamor for enforcement of tax collections against such entities in view of the eerie display of wealth and ostentatious living of some...Read More

A Non-resident is liable to taxation on income derived or received from Nigeria. Nigeria’s tax regime defines a Non-resident individual as a person who derives income in Nigeria but is not domiciled in Nigeria or does not stay in Nigeria for more than 183 days within a twelve months period.Read More

The Federal Board of Inland Revenue (FBIR) Our team of corporate lawyers reflects our much valued entrepreneurial approach to clients’ needs. Our corporate law team advises on business formation, incorporation, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, equity issues, corporate reorganisations, general company law, corporate governance and privatisations. The Joint Tax Board (JTB) The JTB is more...Read More

We are fully engaged in alternative dispute resolution and litigation covering varieties of issues in banking, contracts, real estate, international trade and investments, intellectual property, consumer protection, taxation and banking. Our dispute resolution portfolio includes ADR/litigation on contracts, commercial contract, equity distribution, joint venture structure, trademark infringement and/or passing off, real estate recovery, counterfeiting, copyright,...Read More

The registration of domain names in Nigeria is handled by the office of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) the creation of which was approved by the Federal Executive Council in March 2001. NITDA is under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology and its primary mandate is “to ensure the...Read More

The offices of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) are both in charge of regulating the importation/exportation of non-consumables and consumable products into and from Nigeria respectively. STANDARDS ORGANISATION OF NIGERIA (SON) SON as Standards Organisation of Nigeria is generally known was established in 1971...Read More

Nigeria’s copyright legislations has certainly made giant stride in it attempts to meet up with international standards and development, of all the arms of intellectual property law, copyright can certainly be said to be the most developed in terms of complying with international treaty obligations. In order to achieve this, the principal Copyright Act of...Read More

Trade & Service Mark Nigeria is a party to the Madrid Agreement on International Registration of Trademarks and the Nice Agreement on the International Classification of Goods and Services. The laws governing trademark administration and the enforcement of it accruing rights in Nigeria are contained in Cap 436 of the Trade Marks Act (TMA) 1965,...Read More

Introduction The Patents and Designs Act of 1971 Cap. 344 is the substantive law governing affairs of patents in Nigeria, while the Patent, while the Patents Rules regulates the procedures adopted at the Patent Registry. Under section 26 Patent and Designs Act, the Jurisdiction to hear and dispose of legal proceedings under the PDA is...Read More