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On 20 June 2023, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) issued the CBN (Customer Due Diligence) Regulation 2023 (the CDD Regulations). This regulatory initiative is aimed at assisting financial institutions to comply with customer due diligence measures, required by exis..
A new national arbitration law, the Arbitration and Mediation Act, 2023 (the AMA), came into force in Nigeria on 26 May 2023, replacing the Arbitration and Conciliation Act (the ACA) that had remained unchanged for over three decades. Here are some notable features of the..
On the 17th of March 2023, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria signed the copyright bill into law, as projected in our 2022 IP Wrap-up and 2023 Forward publication. This assent marks the end of the 35-year-old tenure of the old Copyright Act and signals..
With the historic passage of the Petroleum Industry Act, 2021 (the PIA) there has been an overhaul of the legal and regulatory landscape of the Nigerian oil and gas industry, extending to the establishment of key institutions as regulators of technical and commercial acti..
It is the age of the Internet of things and the growth of the modern economy is increasingly hinged on intangible assets. This is more apparent considering the sweeping impact that the fourth industrial revolution driven largely by Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is alread..
