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Nigerian Regulation was too weak to allow Cryptocurrency to continue
It finally dawned on the CBN and the Federal Government that they had lost control. It's not that they are ever intended to have control in the first place, I mean, the very nature of cryptocurrency is a decentralised peer to peer based…
To Whom Can We Pass the Baton?
As we edge on into a new decade, looking onwards from what can be best described as an excruciatingly painful year, I am acutely aware of the fundamental demand for law and lawyers in our societies to steer the ship. The events of the…
Nigeria’s Unending Transmission Failures- Any Solutions to This Problem?
Introduction
In the year 2019 alone, Nigeria had eleven (11) grid collapses, cumulating in numerous days of blackouts in the country and loss of billions of Naira arising therefrom. The year 2020, too, has had its fair share of grid…
There is Still Hope for Nigeria After All: The #EndSARS Protests and What It (Personally) Means to…
On 24 January 2020 while aboard the Emirates Airways Flight EK30 from London Heathrow Airport to Dubai, United Arab Emirates from where I was to take a connecting flight to Lagos, I found myself lost in thought, which was predominantly one…
COVID 19: Would Africa Benefit from Patent Sharing?
Predictions by global health experts that future outbreaks of COVID-19 are likely, once suppression measures, like social distancing, are lifted, have made, even more urgent, the push to develop a vaccine, which will curb current…
Citizen By Investment – A Fresh Frontier for Commercial Lawyers
When I left Cambridge University with a law degree, I didn’t imagine that 20 years later I would be helping governments in the Caribbean structure their Citizenship-by-Investment (CBI) policies and regulations or even developing luxury…
FCCPC’s investigation of pay-tv providers
On 1 September 2020, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) commenced an inquiry into the activities of pay-TV providers in order to establish a possible violation of the Federal Competition and Consumer…
Allen & Brooks Partner, Mobolaji Oriola emphasizes need for Business Savvy Lawyers
In this edition, Lawyer & Humanitarian, ‘Bolaji Oriola speaks to LEGAL BUSINESS about the rapid change in the business environment across Africa and the why Lawyers must re-invent themselves to stay relevant in the business circles.
The Role of Anger in the 2020 NBA Elections
Anger is a central emotion of action and motivation, it makes people make decisions on the spur of the moment and we saw this play out on 30th July, when the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in a free and fair election elected Olumide “Oga…
The allegations against D’banj bear uncanny similarities to Harvey Weinstien’s
Concerning rape in Nigeria, save perhaps, for the Fatoyinbo and Busola Dakolo case there has never been a more galvanised effort from activists to seek justice against a high profile individual, as we see in the case of Mr Dapo Oyebanji,…