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Business structure and registration
Which legal form you trade through decides who carries the liability, how ownership moves, and what the business is able to do.
5 practices · 4 common gaps
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Business & Enterprise
Business owners and company teams deal with the same law as everyone else — just earlier, more often and with more at stake. This section covers setting up, contracts, staff, customer data, tax, customers' rights and industry rules, in the order you are likely to need them.
Every area
Each one leads into the explanation, the practical guide, or the compliance topic that covers it.
Compliance Centre
12 areas of ongoing obligation, each explaining what it covers, when it becomes relevant, what good practice looks like and where businesses most often have gaps.
Which legal form you trade through decides who carries the liability, how ownership moves, and what the business is able to do.
Every commercial relationship is governed by something. The only question is whether it is a document you chose or a set of assumptions you did not.
Written terms, correct classification, statutory deductions and records - the four things every employment claim tends to turn on.
Registration, records and returns. This is awareness of the framework a business sits in - it is not tax advice, and rates and deadlines change.
The duties that attach the moment your business decides why and how personal information is processed.
Brand, content, software and invention - what the business owns, what it merely licenses, and what it never secured at all.
Before You Do This
Hiring, signing, borrowing, partnering, collecting data, launching and terminating. Each guide covers the considerations, the common mistakes, the red flags and a full checklist.
You are about to bring someone onto the payroll
Written terms, statutory deductions, record keeping and the difference between an employee and a contractor - settled before the first payday, not after a dispute.
Your product or shop is about to store personal information
What counts as personal data, why you are processing it, how long you keep it, and the duties the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 places on the organisation holding it.
A commercial agreement is in front of you
Payment terms, liability, termination, dispute resolution and the quiet clauses that decide what happens when a supplier fails to deliver.
Regulatory Watch
Reporting and explanation kept visibly separate, so an account of what happened is never mistaken for advice about what to do.
The Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 established a statutory framework for the processing of personal data in Nigeria, and created the Nigeria Data Protection Commission as the regulator responsible for it.
The Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 replaced the previous companies legislation, restating the law on company formation, administration and winding up.
The Copyright Act 2022 replaced the earlier copyright legislation, restating the law on protected works, ownership, exceptions and enforcement.
Contract Knowledge Centre
Agreement types explained clause by clause — what each does, what to check, and when legal review is appropriate.
The written terms on which someone is employed: the role, the pay, the hours, the place of work, and how the relationship can be brought to an end.
An agreement restricting what one or both parties may do with confidential information disclosed to them.
An agreement under which one party provides services to another: what is delivered, to what standard, for what price, and what happens when performance falls short.