A Primer of Key Changes for Taxpayers in the 2020 Finance Act
On 31 December 2020, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari assented to the 2020 Finance Act, giving it the force of law effective…
20 January 2021
The CBN Framework For Quick Response(QR) Code Payments In Nigeria
From in-store shopping to online payments and more, the use of Quick Response (QR) Code as a means of payment has…
4 January 2021
Enforcing Data Subject Rights Under Nigeria’s Data Protection Regulation: The Wrong Way (And The Right Way)
Nigeria enacted the Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) in 2019 to regulate the collection and processing of Personal Data of natural…
21 December 2020
GAR Know how – Investment Treaty Arbitration 2020 – Nigeria
Templars lawyers Adewale Atake SAN, Victor Igwe, and Stanley U. Nweke-Eze recently authored the Nigeria chapter in…
15 December 2020
Payments System: The New CBN Licensing Framework
The payments system cluster is perhaps one of the more sophisticated layers of the Fintech ecosystem…
2 December 2020
Templars Thought Leadership – Inducing Breach of Contracts
Companies occasionally seek to exit contractual obligations for more favourable contracts, even if such means breaching their existing contracts…
23 November 2020
TEMPLARS Legislative Watch: The Proceeds of Crime Bill – A New Weapon in the Anti-Corruption War in Nigeria
According to Transparency International, Nigeria currently ranks 146 out of 180 countries on the global Corruption Perception Index Report…
16 November 2020
Litigation and Dispute Resolution Expert Guide 2020
The High Court of Lagos State recently delivered a judgment in Global Gas & Refinery Limited v Shell Petroleum…
10 November 2020
Interocean Oil Development Company and Interocean Oil Exploration Company v Federal Republic of Nigeria – The Win and Its Twists
Nigeria recently won at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute in a long-standing case (since 2013)…
26 October 2020
The CBN framework for financing of National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP): A Viable Intervention?
The recent introduction of the service-based tariff (SBT) regime has again brought to the fore the need to ensure that all consumers are metered…
21 October 2020
Petroleum Industry Bill Overview Series: Part 4: A summary of the new midstream and downstream licensing provisions
The Petroleum Industry Bill, 2020 (the “PIB”) requires the Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (the “Authority”) to…
19 October 2020
Petroleum Industry Bill Overview Series: Part 3: A summary of the new upstream licensing and regulatory provisions
In continuation of our PIB overview series, Part 3 focuses on the licencing and regulatory provisions for the upstream oil and gas sector under the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB)…