Opinions

Online Sports Betting (Gambling): Who is the Regulatory Authority?

Introduction The linkage between gambling and sports has been extant for centuries and as technology…

Benefits of Hiring a Drunken Accident Lawyer for Injury Victims

If you have just been in a car accident and the driver was driving under…

Civil Liabilities of Kidnappers in Nigeria

The primary responsibility of the government is to provide for the security of lives and…

The Mental Health of Health Care Workers as Front Liners in This Pandemic

From normal shifts with limited patients to longer shifts with little breaks to ever-increasing patients…

A REFORMATORY APPROACH TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN NIGERIA

INTRODUCTION: The importance of criminal justice to the smooth running of any society cannot be…

#WOCJusticeSummit:Developing an Institutional Concept of Justice in Nigeria | Bode Olanipekun, SAN

Within and outside the Nigerian legal space, there are few words that get more constant…

AARE AFE BABALOLA, SAN CONGRATULATES AKPATA ON ELECTION WIN, SAYS AKPATA WILL MAKE AN EXCELLENT PRESIDENT

With almost three weeks gone after Olumide Akpata’s landmark victory at the Nigerian Bar Association…

Revised Operational Guidelines for Bureau De Change 2016

On the 30th of November, 2015 the Central Bank of Nigeria released a circular containing…

Who can legislate on data protection in Nigeria? An Opinion by Olumide Babalola

There is no gainsaying that our country remains on the list of African Countries without a data protection law (the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019 (NDPR) is not considered a law in this context). It is further sad that, in spite of being a signatory to the ECOWAS Supplemantary Act on Personal Data Protection 2010 and African Union Convention on Cyberscurity and Personal Data, we are yet to have a general data protection law.

AKPATA, OTHERS, SPEAK AT RAMINBA LAND USE CHARGE COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE

The President-Elect of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata, on Thursday 13 August, was…