IP Committee hosts World IP Day 2015 in  conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment On Monday, April 27, 2015, the Intellectual Property Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment hosted the 2015, World Intellectual Property Day Celebration, themed “Get Up, Stand...Read More

Introduction Counterfeiting and Piracy are presently acknowledged as one of the greatest global threats to creativity. Counterfeiting is the act of unlawfully imitating or reproducing items/works protected by the law of trademarks, patents, or copyrights (Intellectual Property- IP), while portraying them as originals. This is usually represented in goods illegally bearing registered/well-known trademarks. Piracy on...Read More

Introduction An independent assessment of the investment market will reveal that foreign investors are increasingly willing to invest in businesses run by Nigerians who have better understanding of the local terrain as opposed to setting up and running them personally. The last decade witnessed a meteoric rise in entrepreneurship and birthed several start-ups in Nigeria....Read More

Introduction Historically, commercial transactions were undertaken with the traditional perception of a market in mind and taxation of these market activities has been a source of government revenue. Global industrialization and efficiency in the factors of production and distribution of goods and service has significantly altered the primordial perception of a market from being a...Read More

The complexity in the governance of corporations has continued to assume greater dimension as a result of the interplay between the directors, management, shareholders and the stakeholders. In Nigeria, corporate governance became a front burner in public discourse after the collapse witnessed in the Nigerian banking sector in the early 2000s. Consequently, industry regulators evolved...Read More