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Act Outlawing Use of Electronic Devices to Commit Financial Crimes (Nov. 26, 2008) by Hanibal Goitom
It was reported on October 30, 2008, that the Nigerian Senate is working on a Bill for an Act to Provide for Prohibition of Electronic Fraud ...
Topic: Criminal Law
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
Act Outlawing Use of Electronic Devices to Commit Financial Crimes (Nov. 19, 2008) by Hanibal Goitom
It was reported on October 30, 2008, that the Nigerian Senate is working on a Bill for an Act to Provide for Prohibition of Electronic Fraud ...
Topic: Criminal Law
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
Bills Prohibiting Gas Flaring and Establishing Desertification Control Commission (Oct. 14, 2008) by Hanibal Goitom
On October 7, 2008, the Nigerian Senate debated a bill that if passed would outlaw the flaring of natural gas. The bill requires the Minister of ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
Work on Financial Bailout Plan (Oct. 09, 2008) by Wendy Zeldin
It was reported on October 7, 2008, that officials of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission were meeting to develop ...
Topic: Banks and Financial Institutions
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
SEC Issues Two New Stock Market Rules (Oct. 02, 2008) by Wendy Zeldin
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Nigeria issued new rules on September 15, 2008, in conformity with a Federal Government directive to stabilize the stock market. ...
Topic: Investments
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
Asset Forfeiture Bill Proposed (Sep. 25, 2008) by Hanibal Goitom
It was reported on September 19, 2008, that the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has proposed a draft bill that establishes a civil legal regime ...
Topic: Civil Liability
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
Economic Laws Amended in Legislature (Sep. 15, 2008) by Constance Johnson
The House of Representatives, the lower house of Nigeria's National Assembly, has amended some financial and economic laws in an effort to stabilize the business environment. ...
Topic: Taxation
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
Bill on Establishment of Financial Crimes Court (Jul. 02, 2008) by Wendy Zeldin
It was reported on May 12, 2008, that Nigeria's Senate would approve the establishment of a special court for financial crimes, through the enactment of the ...
Topic: Courts
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
State Governments Take Federal Government to Court (Jun. 02, 2008) by Hanibal Goitom
It has been reported that seven state governments, of Abia, Bauchi, Benue, Niger, Ogun, Oyo, and Osun States, recently filed a suit against the Federal government ...
Topic: Constitutional Law
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
Cross-Dressers Face Charges (Mar. 02, 2008) by Hanibal Goitom
Eighteen cross-dressers face criminal charges before a Sharia court one year after their arrest in Bauchi, a city in northern Nigeria. Although the men were at ...
Topic: Human Rights
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
New Anti-Corruption Body Planned (Feb. 02, 2008) by Wendy Zeldin
President Umaru Yar'Adua stated on January 15, 2008, that Nigeria would establish a new government unit aimed at monitoring suspicious financial transactions, modeled on similar bodies ...
Topic: Government Ethics
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
Drug Company Officials Face Contempt of Court Charges (Jan. 02, 2008) by Hanibal Goitom
It was reported on December 25, 2007, that a judge in the Nigerian state of Kano ordered the arrest of high executives of the subsidiary in ...
Topic: Health and Safety
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
Vice-President Calls for Review of Constitution (Dec. 02, 2007) by Constance Johnson
Nigeria's Vice-President, Goodluck Jonathan, on November 20, 2007, said that the country's Constitution is inadequate and in need of amendment. Speaking at the International Conference on ...
Topic: Constitutional Law
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
Bakkassi Peninsula (Dec. 02, 2007) by Hanibal Goitom
The fate of the Bakkassi, a peninsula said to hold ten percent of the world's oil and gas reserves, is once again up in the air ...
Topic: International Relations
Jurisdiction: Cameroon / Nigeria
Publisher Charged with Sedition (Nov. 02, 2007) by Constance Johnson
On October 10, 2007, in southern Nigeria, the publisher of a private newspaper was arrested by officers reported by some to be agents of the State ...
Topic: Freedom of the Press
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
Last updated: 11/26/2008