The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved an amendment to the Excise Duty Rates for alcoholic beverages and tobacco. The new excise duty, which took effect from Monday, 4th June 2018, will be implemented over a [...]
ǼLEX Senior Associate, Ngozi Efobi, is ThisDay Newspaper’s Legal Personality of the Week. Please see link below her interview titled “The Lawyers who win the Most, Prepare the Most”. Read more
Simply put, a domain name can be considered as the name that a person or business chooses for his/its website. It is used to identify a registered Internet Protocol (IP) address which online visitors can use [...]
Tax liability attaches to the assets and incomes belonging to or accruing to persons which may, within the context, include natural and corporate persons under the laws in force in Nigeria . What this means is [...]
As part of its corporate social responsibility towards the community, ǼLEX supports Child Life Line. Child Life Line is a voluntary, non-profit-making and charitable association catering for children in need. It opened its first residential rehabilitation [...]
ǼLEX Senior Associate, Kofoworola Bamgbose, is ThisDay Newspaper’s Legal Personality of the Week. Please see attached and link below her interview titled “A Good Lawyer Must Have The Ability To Empathise”. Read More
One of the Partners in the Firm's Intellectual Property and Brand Protection Practice Group, Davidson Oturu LL.M, will be attending the Annual Spring Conference of the International Anti-counterfeiting Coalition (IACC) scheduled to take place from 16th [...]
Kofoworola Bamgbose is a Senior Associate in the Firm's Energy & Natural Resources and Regulatory Compliance Practice Groups. In 2017, Kofo returned from an 18-month secondment to Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC). During [...]
ǼLEX is a proud sponsor of the 2018 Annual Law Week of the Lagos Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). The event is scheduled to run from 5th – 11th May 2018 and it has the [...]
The Small Claims' Court was commissioned by the Chief Judge of Lagos State on Monday, 23rd April 2018. The Small Claims’ Courts are being established in all the Magisterial Districts in Lagos State. The essence of [...]
ǼLEX congratulates our Senior Associate, Tiwalola Osazuwa, on her appointment as the Social Secretary of the Intellectual Property Lawyers Association of Nigeria (IPLAN). Her appointment was made at the IPLAN Annual General Meeting that held on [...]
In a judgment delivered on December 29, 2017 in Toyota Motor Corporation v. Subaya Metalware Nigeria Limited & Anor , the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal held that the mere filing of a trademark [...]
ǼLEX has retained its top ranking in the 2018 Rankings by the Legal 500 for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). ǼLEX is ranked as a Tier 1 law firm in Commercial, Corporate and Merger & [...]
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) issued the Hotel Occupancy and Restaurant Consumption (Fiscalisation) Regulation in December 2017. The Regulation was made pursuant to the Hotel Occupancy and Restaurant Consumption Law which gives the LIRS [...]
ǼLEX is proud to be one of the sponsors of the forthcoming Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) International Petroleum Summit. Our Mr. Soji Awogbade (Partner) and Mrs. Kofoworola Bamgbose (Senior Associate) will be in attendance at [...]
Aelex Partner, Mr. Lawrence Fubara Anga, and Associate, Mr. Ishaya Amaza, will be participating in the German-African Energy Forum taking place in Hamburg from the 23rd to 25th April 2018. The theme for the Forum is [...]
ǼLEX has been the named as the Nigerian law firm Contributor with Most Reader Response on Mondaq for the month of March 2018. Mondaq is an online publication of the most comprehensive online resources on legal, [...]
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) issued the Hotel Occupancy and Restaurant Consumption (Fiscalisation) Regulation (“the Regulation”) in December 2017. The Regulation was made pursuant to Section 9 of the Hotel Occupancy and Restaurant Consumption [...]
With the enactment of the Electric Power Sector Reform Act (EPSRA) in 2005 and the subsequent privatisation of Nigeria's electricity sector in 2013, the provision of meters to electricity customers to ensure efficient billing and collection [...]
In a bid to drastically cut down gas flaring and convert flared gas to economic use, the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has launched the Nigerian Gas Flare Commercialization Programme (NGFCP). Since the start of commercial [...]
