Securing Nigeria’s Maritime Domain: Vigilance, Hot Pursuit, and Combating Crude Oil Theft

Hot pursuit is the right of a coastal state to continue, outside its territorial sea, contiguous zone, or certain adjacent areas, the pursuit of a foreign vessel that has violated its laws and regulations while in its internal waters or territorial sea, contiguous zone, or certain adjacent areas. The pursuit must, however, have started as soon as the violation occurred and not been aborted.

Lawyers/Law Firms are Taxable Persons Liable to Pay VAT — Conclusions from Al-Masser vs. FIRS

“Taxable person” includes an individual or body of individuals, family, corporations sole, trustee or executor or a person who carries out in a place an economic activity, a person exploiting tangible and intangible property for the purpose of obtaining income therefrom by way of trade or business or a person or agency of Government acting in that capacity.

In delivering its judgment, the Court of Appeal held that a lawyer or firm of lawyers in private practice provides legal services for a fee, and so are taxable persons bound by sections 1, 2, 14(1), 15(1) and 46 of the VAT Act to pay VAT to the FIRS for legal services they provide. In the words of the Court of Appeal,…

The Tripartite Identity of Y.C. MAIKYAU, SAN and Its Impacts on Nigerian Bar Association

It seems Maikyau has allowed his 2nd identity as the APC Lawyer to influence or impart negatively on his 3rd identity as NBA President. When you see news items like “NBA President Y.C. Maikyau, SAN thanked  President Tinubu for appointing Lateef Fagbemi, SAN as the AGF” you begin to wonder if the Constitution permits appointment of a Medical Doctor as an AGF, hence the appreciation for the favour done NBA by the President.

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SECTION 16: Central criminal records registry

(1) There shall be established at the Nigeria Police Force a Central Criminal Records Registry. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this Section, there shall be established at every state police command a Criminal Records Registry which shall keep and transmit all such records to the Central Criminal Records Registry. (3) The State or Federal Capital…