The adoption of cryptocurrency globally has been on a gradual rise and in a little over a decade, the sector has ballooned and is estimated to be worth over USD 3 trillion. This momentum has not escaped Africa which has been reported widely as one of the fastest-growing and most promising continents for the adoption of cryptocurrencies.
The Federal Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a statement regarding the apparent co-ordinated action of airlines in Nigeria to increase their base fares.
In our previous two articles in this series ( see part I on the General Regulations and part II on the Registration Regulations), we analysed the extent to which the Data Protection Act, 2019 (DPA) empowered data subjects with numerous mechanisms through which to exercise their privacy-related rights.
In our previous article in this series, here, we broadly highlighted some of the procedural obligations on data controllers and data processors introduced by the Data Protection (General) Regulations 2021.
Since the enactment of the Data Protection Act (the DPA) in 2019, and the establishment of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in 2020, the issuance of regulations necessary to give effect to many of the provisions contained in the DPA has long been awaited.
The much-awaited regulations for the implementation of the Data Protection Act, 2019 (the DPA), which were gazetted in January, have been approved and are now in force.
Having proposed that the suggested amendments to the Forest Management and Conservation Act 2016 (the Act) are not strictly necessary, we now discuss whether the proposed amendments are justified.
As we move towards a holistic approach to evaluating companies’ performance, the environmental, social and governance (ESG) indicator has now been universally accepted as a valuable metric at gauging the non-financial performance of a company.
Considerable attention has been directed at climate change and its impact on the environment in recent years. At a global level, this attention resulted in the Paris Climate Accords of 2015, an international treaty containing prescriptions on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance (Paris Climate Accords).
