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INTRODUCTION: OWNING A PROPERTY DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN FORCE A TENANT OUT Imagine a landlord whose tenant has refused to pay rent for several months. Repeated reminders have yielded no meaningful response. The tenancy has expired, yet the tenant remains in occupation, continues to use the property and shows little intention of leaving. Understandably […]

INTRODUCTION: YOUR BUSINESS MAY OWN ITS NAME, BUT DOES IT OWN ITS BRAND? Imagine spending years building a business. You have invested in product development, marketing, customer acquisition, packaging, social media visibility and distribution. Your brand has gained recognition, customers associate your name with quality, and expansion into new markets is finally within reach. Then

Medical Negligence in Nigeria: When Can a Patient or Family Bring a Legal Claim? INTRODUCTION WHEN MEDICAL TREATMENT CAUSES HARM A patient enters a hospital expecting professional care. Instead, the patient suffers a preventable injury, receives the wrong treatment, experiences a serious delay in diagnosis or dies following care that may have fallen below an

INTRODUCTION THE RIGHT DISPUTE RESOLUTION STRATEGY CAN PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS A company enters into a supply agreement with a distributor. Goods are delivered, invoices become overdue, and repeated demands produce no meaningful response. Meanwhile, the distributor disputes the quality of the goods and threatens a counterclaim. The company now faces a critical decision: should it

Financing an Energy Project in Nigeria: Key Legal Issues Investors Should Resolve Before Committing Capital An energy project may have a compelling business case, promising revenue projections and strong investor interest. Yet, a single unresolved regulatory approval, defective land interest or poorly structured power purchase agreement can undermine the entire investment. Consider a developer seeking

DIVORCE IN NIGERIA IS MORE THAN ENDING A MARRIAGE A marriage may have become practically unbearable long before either spouse decides to approach a court. There may be persistent conflict, separation, infidelity, financial disagreements, abandonment, concerns about children, domestic difficulties or disputes over property and businesses. At that point, the question is often no longer

You have built the app. The technology works. Your developers are ready. Investors are interested. The business model appears commercially viable. Then someone asks a seemingly simple question: “What licence do we need?” For a fintech founder in Nigeria, this question should ideally be answered before the product is launched not after. That is because

Starting a Company in Nigeria? Choose the Legal Structure Before You File Two entrepreneurs can have the same business idea, the same capital and even the same target market, yet the legal structure they choose can put them on very different paths. Consider an investor who incorporates a company simply because “that is what everyone

Buying land can be one of the largest financial decisions an individual, family, company or investor makes. Yet one of the most common mistakes is to treat the transaction as a simple exchange: “I have the money. The seller has the land. We sign an agreement and I pay.” Land transactions rarely work that simply.