Our Junior Asscociate, Oyebola Badejo, speaks on the Legal Framework of Interception of Communications in Nigeria, drawing from the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Act, 2003, the Cybercrime Act, 2015, the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, 2019 and more: Check out the video below:
Background The President of Nigeria signed the Mutual Assistance In Criminal Matters Bill, 2019 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’) into Law to further strengthen and boost the ongoing war against corruption within and outside the country. The Act repealed the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters within the Commonwealth (Enactment Read more…
Like the dictionary definition of a hailstorm, the news of the signing into law of ‘The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act’ hit the ambient air. The Act, which was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari in February, 2019, and applauded by many, dissolved the Consumer Protection Council, CPC Read more…
During my lecture ‘Key Issues in Nigerian Telecommunications Legal and Regulatory Framework’, delivered recently at the Osun State University (Ifetedo Campus), one of the questions the Law Students left triangulating on me was why there is a dearth of legal experts/law firms when it comes to the area of Telecommunications Read more…
On 27th June, 2019, HARLEM Solicitors paid a visit to the Ifetedo campus of the Osun State University upon the invitation by the Justice & Equity Chambers of the Law Students of the great institution. HARLEM Solicitors is delighted to have taken part in the public lecture as a speaker Read more…
Executive Summary: Dissatisfaction has consistently been expressed concerning the lack of effectiveness of the Copyright Laws in Nigeria, particularly evident from the high rate of piracy still present in the country, notwithstanding the presence of these laws. This paper seeks to examine the Copyright Act Chapter C28 Laws of the Read more…
There are different options available to companies wanting to engage each other in forming a stronger business organization for continuation of their object and, perhaps, to salvage a state of recession or total shut down. These options are generally referred to as ‘External Corporate Restructuring’. External Restructure of corporate bodies Read more…
Interconnection-related issues are ranked by many countries as the single most important problem in the development of a competitive marketplace for telecommunications service. This exemplifies the importance of the role that telecommunications regulators have on interconnection[1]. The Nigerian Communications Commission, “the Commission”, is the independent regulator of the telecommunications industry in Nigeria. The Commission is governed Read more…
According to Black’s Law Dictionary, adoption is “the statutory process of terminating a child’s legal rights and duties towards the natural parents and substituting similar rights and duties towards adoptive parents”. Adoption, simply put, is the act of one who takes another’s child into his own family treating him or Read more…
As the debate about health hazards on telecoms base stations rages on and becomes obstreperous in its stridency, the end-result is neither-nor……Harlem Solicitors’ Principal Partner, Babatunde Lawal, Esq., weighs in. Check out the video below: