We hereby inform the business community and other interested parties about the new type of company introduced by the New Commercial Code, approved by Decree-Law no. 1/2022, of May 25 (the "New CCom")..
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We hereby inform the business community and other interested parties about the new type of company introduced by the New Commercial Code, approved by Decree-Law no. 1/2022, of May 25 (the "New CCom")..
On 22 November 2022, the National Assembly passed a revised version of the Omnibus Bill, which proposes to amend five pieces of legislation, including the Companies Act, 2008.
On 31 August 2022, a Special Bill supplement for the proposed Tanzania Investment Act, 2022 was published in the special Gazette. This Bill has been tabled for discussi..
The long-awaited reform of Mozambique’s electricity law has reached the statute books this winter in Maputo (summer if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere), with the enactment of Law 12/2022 of 11 July (the New Electricity Law). It is..
The Employment (Amendment) Bill 2022 was re-tabled for First Reading before the Parliament of Uganda on 21 September 2022. The Bill seeks to amend the Employment Act 2006. Some of the highlights of the Bill follow below.
The Parliament of Uganda passed the National Payment Systems Act (the Act) in 2020 and a year later, the National Payment Systems Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) were passed to operationalise the Act. The objective of this regime is to cont..
The new Commercial Code, approved by Decree-Law no. 1/2022 of 25 May (the “New CCom"), in its article 99, establishes the obligation for the companies to have, and maintain updated, a registration with information on the identity of its ..
Since the issuance of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation in 2019 (NDPR), stakeholders have clamoured for a more robust data protection instrument to adequately provide for the collection and processing of personal data in Nigeria. Consequently, there have been several..
The Nigerian technology and innovation space in general, and its startup ecosystem in particular, has been gaining momentum and recording impressive growth in recent times.