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By: Ronaldson Diete-Spiff, Esq.

The Minister of Interior, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola in conjunction with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) made a public introduction of the Electronic Data Management System (EDMS) as part of its code of conduct guiding its officers. The expectant result of the introduction of the EDMS is to improve the efficiency of its workers who would display a high level of clarity, dedication and punctuality in their operations of service owing to the fact that their activities are online and every personnel detail would be easily accessible to superior officers electronically rather than the paper-based format the system is being known for. The essence of this is to monitor the activities of all officers and their assigned duties and the discharge of such duties professionally, and to also put them in check, in line with the code of conduct of the Nigerian Immigration Service.

By: Nneka Oduada Eze Esq.

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), in a statement made on Tuesday, 9^th August, 2021 through its Nigerian Representative, Mr. Peter Hawkins, said the African continent have the lowest birth registration rate in the world. It was also stated that only 44 percent of children are registered at birth, while millions of deaths are uncounted for each year.

By: Nneka Oduada Eze Esq.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has approved new license categorizations for participants in the payments system. CBN in its circular released its guidelines for the establishment and regulation of Payments Service Holding Companies (PSHCs) in Nigeria. The guideline is expected to facilitate the regulatory requirement for the operations of a PSHC in the country.  The regulation requires companies that wish to operate more than one license category (within the Mobile Money Operations, Switching and Processing, Payment Solution Services ) to set up a Payments Service Holding Company (PSHC), while clearly separating the activities of the subsidiaries.

By: Nneka Oduada Eze Esq.

As a direct consequence of the increasing report of rape from all angles of the country, the federal government has vowed to deal decisively with the perpetrators of this offence and other gender-based violence in the country. The Vice President of Nigeria, through his representative, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, made this known in Abuja at the official launch of USAID’s Momentum Country and Global Leadership.

By: Ronaldson Diete-Spiff, Esq

On August 3, 2021, the Chief Justice of Nigeria in a keynote in Workshop for Judicial Workers, titled “Promoting Discipline and Commitment among Court Employees”, warned judicial staff to cease from disseminating court judgments for financial benefits. This call was made same period where the  Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folashade Yemi-Esan, in a circular HCSF/3065/VOL.1/94, sternly cautioned civil servant against unapproved dissemination of confidential/official documents over media space.