Nigerian law, in plain English
161 guides on contracts, tenancy, employment, estates and business registration. Written for what you actually have to do, not for other lawyers.
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What Happens to Your Company When You Die? A Succession Plan for Nigerian Founders
The company carries on, but your directorship ends, your shares go to your estate, and the bank mandate may freeze. What actually happens when a Nigerian founder dies, and the documents that keep the business alive.
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Letters of Administration in Nigeria: How a Family Gets Access to an Estate When There Is No Will
The bank has frozen the accounts and nobody can touch the house. How to apply for letters of administration in Nigeria: who applies, the documents, sureties, timelines, and what administrators must do afterwards.
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Buying a Used Car in Nigeria: The Checks That Stop You Buying a Stolen, Smuggled or Financed Car
Before you transfer the money for a tokunbo or Nigerian-used car: the papers to see, the customs and VIN checks, how to spot a stolen or financed car, and the bill of sale that protects you if something comes out later.
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Can Your Landlord Increase Your Rent? What Nigerian Tenants Can Actually Do About It
The rent is going up, a lot. When a Nigerian landlord can and cannot raise it, how Lagos tenants can challenge an unreasonable increase in court, and how to respond without losing your home.
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Selling Your Business in Nigeria: Share Sale or Asset Sale, and Why the Difference Matters
There are two ways to sell a Nigerian business, and they move very different things. How a share sale and an asset sale differ on liabilities, staff, contracts, land and paperwork, and which one each side usually wants.
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A Cheque Bounced on You: What to Do Next, and What Nigerian Law Lets You Do
The bank has returned the cheque. What to do in the first 48 hours, when a dud cheque is a crime under the Dishonoured Cheques Act, and why suing on the cheque is usually how you actually get paid.
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They Still Have Not Paid: What Actually Happens After the Demand Letter
The deadline in your demand letter has passed and the money has not arrived. Your real options, from instalments and mediation to small claims, the fast-track court routes, and turning a judgment into money.
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Pension, PAYE and NHF: The Deductions Nigerian Employers Must Remit, and the Personal Liability If They Do Not
Every naira deducted from a salary belongs to somebody else from the moment it is taken. What employers must deduct, where it goes, the deadlines, and why unremitted deductions follow directors personally.
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Maternity, Sick and Annual Leave in Nigeria: What the Labour Act Entitles Your Staff To
Six days of annual leave, twelve days of sick pay, twelve weeks of maternity leave. What the Labour Act actually requires, who it covers, and what a proper leave policy should add.
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Property and land
Tenancy agreements, quit notices, deeds of assignment and what it takes to actually own the land you paid for.
37 articles
Contracts
The clauses that decide who is protected when a deal goes wrong, and the documents worth having before it does.
34 articles
Starting a business
Registering at the CAC, choosing a structure, staying compliant, and the paperwork a new company actually needs.
33 articles
Family and estate
Wills, codicils, powers of attorney and the arrangements that spare your family an argument they cannot win.
24 articles
Employment
Hiring, contracts, discipline and dismissal, written for the Labour Act and the National Industrial Court.
21 articles
Brand and IP
Trademarks, copyright and what to do when somebody else is trading under the name you built.
6 articles
Compliance
Data protection, consumer rules and the filings that only become urgent once somebody asks for them.
6 articles
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