– Ishaq Obashola Apalando, Esq A free zone is a geographical area within a country where tax laws and other business regulations are either totally or partially exempted from application. It is also known as a free trade zone (FTZ), a special economic zone (SEZ), an export processing zone (EPZ) etc. The reason free...
– Ishaq Obashola Apalando, Esq On 11 July 2024, the Supreme Court of Nigeria gave a landmark decision in a suit between the Federal Government (FG) and the 36 State Governments. The suit, AGF v AG Abia & 35 Ors (No. SC/CV/343/2024, reported (2024) LPELR-62576(SC)), bordered on the method of paying the country’s 768...
In Nigeria, a lawyer owes her client a duty of confidentiality, also known as legal professional privilege. The legal framework for legal professional privilege in Nigeria remained undisturbed until 3 June 2011, when the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act of 2011 (MLA 2011) came into force. On 14 June 2017, in the case of Central...