Persons with Significant Control (PSC) Regulations, 2022: a vehicle for transparency in corporate governance in Nigeria

Grace Aduragbemi Ikudaisi, LLB (Hons), BL  Abstract   The Persons with Significant Control Regulations, 2022 (“PSC Regulations”) aims to address concerns about the impervious nature of business ownership, where only the legal and not necessarily, the beneficial owners of an entity’s shares are recorded, or disclosed to the public. The PSC Regulations requires all corporate …

An analysis of the USA, European and Nigerian approaches in resolving jurisdictional challenges in transantional electronic contract  

Ekhorutomwen Gabriel Ekhator  Abstract   One of the benefits of the internet over other means of communication is that it enables easy access to a wide-reaching audience. Spatial distance and national borders are irrelevant to the formation of electronic contracts. With the internet as a distinctive marketplace in terms of market penetration, any computer, anywhere …

An appraisal of the impacts of environmental taxes and laws in attaining environmental sustainability in Nigeria

Ater, Solomon Vendaga  Abstract Environmental challenges have become one of the increasingly complicated global realities affecting us today that require deliberately innovative and radical approaches for their solution. Globally, there is a commitment to reducing the emissions of gasses to net zero 2050. However laudable this pledge is, it may amount to nothing unless …

The problem of legal technicalities and the demand for justice: layman’s perception of technically decided cases 

Amb Shuaibu Bashir Mukaddam Abstract This write-up will examine thoroughly the concept of technicality, the problems associated with it and the way forward in trying to solve the problems. It will also examine the concept of demand of justice. This paper will further explain the concept of technicality in a wider context taking a careful …