Category: Publications

The entire team of Koriat is pleased to announce that the Central Bank of Nigeria has granted a Final Licence (Super Agents Licence) to LibertyPay Limited to operate agency banking in Nigeria. See below: There are different categories of payment licences for operators within the …

NO VIDEO RECORDING, NO VALID CONFESSION In a big move to uphold the supremacy of the constitutional rights of a crime suspect over the wide and potentially abusive powers of law enforcement agencies, the Supreme Court of Nigeria has in F.R.N. v. Akaeze 12 NWLR …

Winding up is a legal proceeding or procedure that may be initiated to end the life of a company. Winding-up is different from dissolution. The former is a means to an end, the latter is the end. During winding up, a company ceases to do …

Suspension is one of employer’s powers at common law, which Nigerian courts also uphold. Amongst all disciplinary powers vested in an employer, the power to suspend a staff member is the most versatile in the sense that it can be adopted for almost all kinds …

A charitable organization or non-governmental organisation (“NGO”) can be registered in Nigeria as either a Company Limited by Guarantee (“Ltd/Gte”) or an Incorporated Trustee (“IT”) depending on the intentions of its promoters and the intended scope of operations. The registration of business entities and NGOs …

Why set up a digital lending business in Rwanda? There is a promising future for the Rwandan digital economy and the spending habits of the Rwandans as well as stable democratic regime, ease of doing business policies and the government’s impressive drive towards technology infrastructural …

The Central Bank of Nigeria (“CBN”) has granted an Approval-In-Principle (“AIP“) to Appglobal Technologies Limited, a fintech company in Nigeria, to operate three types of payment services or businesses under the Payment Solutions Service Licence Category. The CBN is the apex regulator of the Nigeria’s …

Lagos is the economic hub of Nigeria with over 20 million people with proximity to the Atlantic Ocean and attracting a huge surge of in human movement from various parts of the world to Lagos State. Lagos State has identified the need for ride-hailing car …

As businesses strive to distinguish themselves in the marketplace, the risk of deceptive practices (knowingly or unknowingly) by competitors increases. The intellectual property law offers protection to registered trade mark. However, owners of unregistered trade mark are not without some remedies if their mark has …

The hallmark of trademark is a grant of certain right(s) to proprietors of a given product or band in the market to the exclusion of other competitors from making use of a sign, symbol or slogan with which the product is identified. Distinctiveness is the …