publications
Review of the electricity act (amendment), bill 2025
The 2023 Electricity Act broke a 50-year federal monopoly, by allowing states to legislate on generatio, transmission and distribution within their borders.
However, uneven state readiness, mounting sectoral debts and continuing grid fragility have driven calls for a course-correction.The Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill 2025 (“the Bill”) is the first substantive attempt to recalibrate Nigeria’s 2023 electricity-sector devolution. While it preserves the spirit of federalism in several areas, most notably by strengthening the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory
Commission’s (NERC) market-development mandate, it simultaneously re-introduces significant centralising levers that could potentially erode state autonomy. The Bill seeks to clarify regulatory boundaries, de-risk finance, and formalise host-community engagement.
The Fundamentals of Strategic Deal Making.
Deal-making is often treated as a mechanical process: proposals exchanged, terms reviewed, risk
mitigated, and contracts signed. Yet the transactions that endure—the ones that create lasting
value, protect reputation, and evolve into meaningful partnerships—are not the result of rigid
procedure. They are the result of strategic design.
This paper is not about legal drafting, financial modeling, or closing checklists—though those skills
are essential. It is about the mental architecture behind deal-making: the frameworks, intuitions,
and choices that determine not just whether a deal is signed, but what it truly achieves, and for
whom.
The Cost of Consent: A Turning Point for Privacy in Nigeria
I. Introduction
II. Summary of Regulatory Findings
III. Lawful Bases for Processing Personal Data under the NDPA
IV. Implications and Outlook
V. Conclusion
Energy Focus Report – Q1 2025 Round Up and 2025 Outlook
I. OIL AND GAS SECTOR
Outlook on the Reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian
National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL)
II. POWER SECTOR
Review and Analysis of NERC Orders:
An Analysis of the Nigerian Electricity
Regulatory Commission’s Q4 2024 Report
Energy Focus Report – Q4 2024 Round Up and 2025 Outlook
I. OIL AND GAS SECTOR
Regulatory Outlook for Nigeria’s Oil and Gas Sector in 2025
II. RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR
Outlook on the Adoption of the African Forum for Utility Regulators Mini-Grid Tariff Tool in Nigeria
III. POWER SECTOR
An Analysis of the Lagos State Electricity Law in Light of the NERC Order on Transfer of Regulatory Oversight to the States
An Analysis of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission’s Q2 2024 Report
An Overview of the Arbitration and Mediation Act (AMA) 2023
The bifurcation of the office of the Nigerian Attorney-General of the Federation (“AGF”) has been a subject of debate for many years by different stakeholders.
ENERGY FOCUS REPORT: Q3 2023
INDUSTRY FOCUS ANALYSIS
I. OIL AND GAS SECTOR
ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE DECOMMISSIONING UNDER THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY ACT
Nigeria is one of the largest oil-producing countries in Africa and has continued to generate revenue from the extraction, supply, use, exportation, drilling, and other oil-related activities.
GEP Commentary on the electoral act 2022
Over the past decade, there have been calls for the amendment of the Electoral Act 2010 (“2010 Act”) largely due to the inability of the legislation to enhance the conduct of free, fair, and credible elections in Nigeria. law in February 2022.
An analysis on the proposed bifurcation of the office of the attorney general of nigeira
The bifurcation of the office of the Nigerian Attorney-General of the Federation (“AGF”) has been a subject of debate for many years by different stakeholders.
Energy Focus report q1 2022
PART A
I. OIL AND GAS SECTOR ANALYSIS:
• Impact of the Proposed Amendment of the
Proposed LNG Market Expansion…
Energy Focus report q4 2021
INDUSTRY FOCUS ANALYSIS
I. OIL AND GAS SECTOR ANALYSIS: REVIEW OF PIA IMPLEMENTATION DEVELOPMENTS
Commercial – NMDRA’s Directive on Gas Prices…
Energy Focus report q3 2021
PART A
I. OIL AND GAS SECTOR ANALYSIS:
• Impact of the Proposed Amendment of the
Proposed LNG Market Expansion…
Role of a company secretary in the modern era
The role of a company secretary has been subject to significant evolution over the last century. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, 5th Edition of 1979, a secretary is defined as “an officer charged with the direction and management of that part of the business of the…..
