Tisungane Brian Makato: Africa’s Legal Millennial
Tisungane is a Malawian legal practitioner who was called to the Malawian Bar in March 2011. An LLB (Honours) graduate from the University of Malawi; Tisu, as he is popularly known among his family, friends and colleagues, was a British Chevening Scholar at the world-renowned Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee in Scotland, where he graduated with an LLM in Energy Law and Policy with a distinction. He holds the honour of being one of the very few Malawians to graduate with an LLM from the prestigious Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the USA
THIS City Smells The Same by Ezekiel Archibong
Ezekiel Archibong has provided us with a masterful and delicately delivered story bordering on the rigours faced by a young lad pursuing his mandatory year of service while looking to also win at love; at the same time navigating the attendant problems of living on the mainland and working on the island of Lagos state, Nigeria.
Why SMEs Are Rarely Successful In Africa and Likely Solutions; A Case of Nigeria By Alex Nwankwo
The question then begs that with the consistent economic instability in Nigeria and the financial woes of the Nigerian Naira, what is the hope of Startups in Nigeria? This article confirms that Nigerian Startups or Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) are also caught up by the wings of failure but with the peculiar challenges affecting the Nigerian community. This Article goes further to explore 5 reasons why Nigerian startupsmay never meet the 12th month of their inception.
Challenges of Cybersecurity in Africa
Technology has become integrated in all aspects of our daily lives. As technology is an ever-growing field, there are many inventions that are changing rapidly. One of the main technological creations is the internet. As the fastest growing infrastructure in our daily lives, the internet has created a world of its own (Gade and Reddy, 2014). The internet is used for multiple purposes. However, some of the main uses of the internet are sending electronic emails and dispersing commercial advertisements.
Privacy Policy, Data Protection, and Inter-Jurisdictional Enforcement of Data rights; Meeting the Realities of the New Normal (Part 2). By Stanley O. Omotor and Alphayo Ongeri Wycliffe
Generally, the right to privacy has attained a universal status, and countries have enacted various laws to regulate the collection and use of personal data, popular amongst which is the European General Data Protection Regulation 2018. In this part (“part 2”) of this Article series, we will undertake a comparative analysis of the rights of data subjects under the Nigerian and Kenyan legal systems. In part 3 of these Article series, consideration will be on the inter-jurisdiction enforcement of these data rights.
The African Girl and Covid 19 by Rita Promise Iyere
Like the effect of the Ebola pandemic, COVID-19 will disproportionately affect adolescent girls in Africa bearing ripple effects of violence, trafficking, child marriage and teenage pregnancies hence downplaying the achievements made towards the education of the girl child over the years, thereby increasing the gender gaps in education. In West Africa, women and girls accounted for 60% of the population of those who were infected with Ebola, leaving thousands of children without parents and teenage girls dropping out of school to take up parental roles.
Emokiniovo Dafe-Akpedeye, MA (Oxon), FCIArb, Dipl.Arb: Africa’s Legal Millennial
In this edition of “TheMillennial” we feature Emokiniovo Dafe-Akpedeye, a bright Nigerian legal practitioner par excellence who was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2015. Prior to obtaining her law degree from the prestigious Oxford University, UK, she studied Economics and Management at the University of Bristol and graduated with a first-classhonours degree.
Covid 19: Is Safe Habour Still Safe in the Administration of Transfer Pricing by Ezekiel Archibong
Over time, there has been a global consensus to treat multinational enterprises (“MNEs”) as separate entities for tax purposes and transfer of goods and services. This means that, although in practice the enterprises are related entities under the ownership and control of a parent company, they must give their respective accounts based on the fiction that they transact as independent entities. This is known as the Arm’s length principle.
However, for a while now, taxpayers and tax administrators have continued to grapple with the complexities embedded in Transfer Pricing (“TP”) analysis occasioned by the Arm’s length principle. These complexities often lead to uncertainties, TP risks, are time-consuming, and increase compliance costs. To simplify TP compliance and provide certainty on the treatment of related party transactions, tax administrators in different jurisdictions have adopted a more simplified measure. This measure is known as the “Safe Harbor Rule”.
June 2020 Edition
At The People’s Accolade Law Magazine (The PALM), we find pleasure in keeping you up to speed with developing trends in the society.
In this edition, we bring to you our June Deluxe Edition with a focus on Tax Administration and Practice in Africa and it features Kenyan’s Tax Topliner, Emma Kithinji.
Privacy Policy, Data Protection and Inter-jurisdictional enforcement of Data rights; Meeting the Realities of the New Normal By Stanley O. Omotor
Privacy policies are policies which are intended to educate internet users and regulate how digital information is collected, why they are collected, and how they are managed. Organizations with digital platforms are required to have privacy policies to regulate the collection and use digital information, especially personal data.
To aid a realistic analysis of the topic, we will be analyzing the provisions of Google Privacy Policy (“GPP”) . The preference of the GPP for analysis, rather than any other privacy policy, is informed by the reason that Google is one of the most populous digital service provider globally as almost all internet and phone users interact with one form, or the other, of the digital services provided by Google. Popular Google applications (“apps”) and platforms include Google search, YouTube, G-mail, Chrome browser, Google Play Store, Google Map and the Android operating system. For instance, the Android operating system is reputed to be the largest installed base of any operating system worldwide controlling the global operating system market with a 74.13% share.
