Olaniwun Ajayi LP

January 6, 2025

Olaniwun Ajayi: A Review of Nigeria's 2024 Legislative Landscape and Outlook for 2025

Navigating Nigeria’s Legislative Landscape: 2024 Highlights and 2025 Outlook

2024 marked a transformative year for Nigeria as it embarked on legislative reforms to reshape its economic, social, and digital landscape. From addressing minimum wage challenges to pioneering advances in...

October 18, 2024

Olaniwun Ajayi Government Business Lawyers, Celestina Nwabueze and Patrick Omodia facilitate capacity building session for Nigerian Data Protection Commission Staff

Olaniwun Ajayi, others facilitate Capacity Building Training for NDPC organised by ID4D

We are excited to announce that, in collaboration with the team from Macmillan Keck Attorneys and Solicitors, our Celestina Nwabueze and Patrick Omodia successfully facilitated a two-day capacity-building session for...

February 20, 2024

Nigeria Law in Review - 2023 Outlook

Nigeria Law in Review – 2023 Wrap-Up

2023 was a pivotal year for Nigeria’s legal and regulatory landscape, marked by the election and inauguration of a new president and parliamentarians. Our report examines the key bills that...

April 4, 2023

The Nigerian Constitution In Progress: Recent Amendments

On March 17, 2023, President Muhammadu Buhari enacted sixteen (16) constitutional alteration bills (Alteration Acts) that have brought about sweeping changes to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,...

February 9, 2023

OALP 2022 Government Business Wrap Up Report

Last year was an active one in Nigerian governance. Being the eve of an election year, there was an increased pace to ensure that legislative business was concluded, in time...

July 25, 2022

NNPC Limited: Understanding the Hybrid Identity of Nigeria’s National Oil Company

With the unveiling of NNPC Limited, one of the burning questions has been on its identity, in light of its incorporation as a limited liability company and the requirement of...

June 7, 2022

Money Laundering Prevention and Prohibition Act 2022: Enhanced Anti Money Laundering Regime in Nigeria

The passage of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022 – which repealed the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, No. 11, 2011 – has introduced significant changes to the legal...

May 31, 2022

The Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Act, 2022: Revitalizing Nigeria’s Anti-Graft War

On 12 May 2022 the Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Act came into effect. Drawing from local experience in the anti-graft war, and noticeably influenced by international instruments such...

March 12, 2021

Privatization

FGN Concludes Plans to Privatise Key Assets

In recent years, the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has demonstrated its preference for the adoption of privatization as a way of managing its economic responsibilities to its citizens. With...

December 9, 2020

BOFIA-GB

The Banks and other Financial Institutions Act 2020 – Spotlight on Notable Provisions

On 13 November 2020, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria assented to the Bill to repeal the almost three-decade old Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act of 1991...

January 6, 2025

Olaniwun Ajayi: A Review of Nigeria's 2024 Legislative Landscape and Outlook for 2025

Navigating Nigeria’s Legislative Landscape: 2024 Highlights and 2025 Outlook

2024 marked a transformative year for Nigeria as it embarked on legislative reforms to reshape its economic, social, and digital landscape. From addressing minimum wage challenges to pioneering advances in...

October 18, 2024

Olaniwun Ajayi Government Business Lawyers, Celestina Nwabueze and Patrick Omodia facilitate capacity building session for Nigerian Data Protection Commission Staff

Olaniwun Ajayi, others facilitate Capacity Building Training for NDPC organised by ID4D

We are excited to announce that, in collaboration with the team from Macmillan Keck Attorneys and Solicitors, our Celestina Nwabueze and Patrick Omodia successfully facilitated a two-day capacity-building session for...

February 20, 2024

Nigeria Law in Review - 2023 Outlook

Nigeria Law in Review – 2023 Wrap-Up

2023 was a pivotal year for Nigeria’s legal and regulatory landscape, marked by the election and inauguration of a new president and parliamentarians. Our report examines the key bills that...

April 4, 2023

The Nigerian Constitution In Progress: Recent Amendments

On March 17, 2023, President Muhammadu Buhari enacted sixteen (16) constitutional alteration bills (Alteration Acts) that have brought about sweeping changes to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,...

February 9, 2023

OALP 2022 Government Business Wrap Up Report

Last year was an active one in Nigerian governance. Being the eve of an election year, there was an increased pace to ensure that legislative business was concluded, in time...

July 25, 2022

NNPC Limited: Understanding the Hybrid Identity of Nigeria’s National Oil Company

With the unveiling of NNPC Limited, one of the burning questions has been on its identity, in light of its incorporation as a limited liability company and the requirement of...

June 7, 2022

Money Laundering Prevention and Prohibition Act 2022: Enhanced Anti Money Laundering Regime in Nigeria

The passage of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022 – which repealed the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, No. 11, 2011 – has introduced significant changes to the legal...

May 31, 2022

The Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Act, 2022: Revitalizing Nigeria’s Anti-Graft War

On 12 May 2022 the Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Act came into effect. Drawing from local experience in the anti-graft war, and noticeably influenced by international instruments such...

March 12, 2021

Privatization

FGN Concludes Plans to Privatise Key Assets

In recent years, the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has demonstrated its preference for the adoption of privatization as a way of managing its economic responsibilities to its citizens. With...

December 9, 2020

BOFIA-GB

The Banks and other Financial Institutions Act 2020 – Spotlight on Notable Provisions

On 13 November 2020, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria assented to the Bill to repeal the almost three-decade old Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act of 1991...