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The DPR’s declaration of the COVID-19 Pandemic as a Force Majeure event- Issues Arising by Racheal Obong

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic (“the Pandemic”) continues to negatively impact practically every sector in Nigeria and the oil and gas sector has not been spared. In a bid to respond to and address the challenges occasioned by the pandemic, the nation’s foremost oil and gas regulator, the Department of Petroleum Resource (the “DPR”), recently issued

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THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: TAX PALLIATIVE MEASURES BY THE FEDERAL AND STATES GOVERNMENTS IN NIGERIA

The whole world is currently undergoing immense and unprecedented halt in global and economic activities due to the outbreak of the pandemic known as COVID-19. Businesses across the globe have had to shut down, with their employees working remotely, while a large number have lost their employment as a result of impracticality of payment of

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THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE OPERATIONS OF THE NIGERIAN PORT AUTHORITY (NPA) AND RELATED AGENCIES

Introduction The Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) and Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) are important agencies at the border and entry points in the country and have no doubt experienced a down turn in the dispensation of their regulatory functions with the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Nigeria. Flowing from the increasing spread of the

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COVID-19 AND THE NIGERIAN JUSTICE SECTOR: A Case for Virtual Dispute Resolution by Dayo Adamolekun

The novel event of the very recent has indubitably shown that when we are confronted with a grave existential crisis, all other things hitherto considered essential pales into insignificance.  In the wake of the outbreak of the neoteric Coronavirus Disease (code-named COVID-19), several institutions’ services were suspended and/or banned by the government.  The Courts...

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COST OF BUSINESS NAME REGISTRATION REDUCED BY 50%

A LAUDABLE GESTURE TOWARDS MSMEs IN NIGERIA. As part of the Nigerian government’s resolve to continually make the business environment accessible and to ease the financial burden of registration of business on the public, the Vice-president in conjunction with Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has reduced the cost of registration of business name from NGN 10,

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