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Infastructure Fund Investment Policy Statement
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
This policy provides a framework for the management of Nigeria’s Infastructure Fund, outlining the guideline for executive management as well as the objectives, risk tolerance and constraints of the fund.
Nigeria • 2019 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area
AfCFTA, Nigeria
This document specifies the agreement guiding the establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area including the objectives, principles and scope of the AFCFTA.
Nigeria • 2018 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Nigeria Automotive Industry Development Plan, 2014
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
This document highlights government strategic plan for the growth and development of the automotive industry in Nigeria. The strategic encompases industrial infrastructure, skills development, standards, invesment promotion and vehicle purchase scheme.
Nigeria • 2014 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
ECOWAS Investment Policy
ECOWAS, Nigeria
This goal of this policy is harmonize the legal, regulatory and institutional framework of member state to foster economic growth and integration in the region. Strategic actions include liberalization of trade and investment in member state, increase protection for investors, transparency of investment laws and regulations, and cooperation among member states.
Nigeria • 2018 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
ECOWAS Common Investment Code
ECOWAS, Nigeria
The purpose of this code is to harmonize legal and institutional framework for all investment activities in the region thereby fostering investment, sustainable development as well as attract foreign direct investment and to promote trade and investment relation in the region.
Nigeria • 2018 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020
Ministry of Justice, Nigeria
This Act repeals the Companies and Alied Matters Act, 1990, laws of the federation of Nigeria, 2004 and enacts the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020 to provide for the incorporation of companies, limited liability partnerships, limited partnerships, registration of business names together with incorporation of trustees of certain communities, bodies association. It’s primary objective is to improve Nigeria’s ease of doing business.
Nigeria • 2020 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Companies Income Tax (Significant Economic Presence) Order, 2020
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
The Order defines the concept of “Significant Economic Presence” as it relates to the taxation of non-resident companies under the Companies Income Tax Act (CITA) as amended by the Finance Act, 2019.
Nigeria • 2020 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Export Produce (Federal Powers) (Prescribed Grades and Standards for Capsicums) Regulations (Cap. P32).
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
These regulations, made under section 2 of the Export of Nigerian Produce Act, prescribe grades and standards of quality for capsicums intended for export not being produce for export purchased by the commodity board.
Nigeria • 1962 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Export Produce (Federal Powers) (Prescribed Grades and Standards for Rubber) Regulations (Cap. P32).
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
These regulations, made under section 2 of the export of Nigerian Produce Act, prescribe grades and standards of quality for rubber intended for export, not being produce for export purchased by the commodity board.
Nigeria • 1962 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Raw Materials Research and Development Council Act
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
This is an Act to establish a council known as The Raw Materials Research and Development Council to develop local raw materials and co-ordinate research efforts especially in relation to raw materials acquisition, exploitation, conservation and development. The functions of the Council shall be to draw up policy guidelines and action programmes on raw materials acquisition, exploitation and development) to review from time to time, raw material resources availability and utilisation with a view to advising the Federal Government on the strategic implication of depletion, conservation or stock-piling of such resources, to encourage publicity of research findings and other information relevant to local sourcing of industries etc.
Nigeria • 1987 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Copra (Inspection for Export) Regulations.
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
These regulations provide rules for the storage, sealing, packing, handling and inspection of copra destined for exportation. Where copra inspected, graded, sealed and marked for export by the Produce Inspection Service of any State is delivered at any port for shipment, officers of the Federal Produce Inspection Service shall conduct check-tests on the batch. Copra lots may be condemned or be made subject to treatment by fumigation.
Nigeria • 1979 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Produce (Enforcement Of Export Standards) Act
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
An Act to make provision for the inspection of commodities for export from Nigeria at ports of shipment, for the purpose of enforcement of grades and standards of quality in respect of such commodities, and for matters incidental to the execution of the powers conferred by this act. It establishes The Produce Inspection Board and provides for the control of produce destined for exportation. The act shall apply to the produce described in the first schedule to this act. The board shall have advisory functions towards the Minister and states of The Federation. The act also empowers the Minister to make emergency orders for the control in Lagos of pests affecting produce. Where any produce is found within Lagos to be infested or suspected to be infested with any pest, a produce officer may make such order as he may deem necessary for the treatment of such pest. The act also defines wrongful grading of produce to be an offence.
Nigeria • 1959 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Consumer Protection Council Act
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
An Act to provide for the establishment of the Consumer Protection Council and for matters connected therewith. The functions of the Council are to provide speedy redress to consumers’ complaints through negotiation, mediation and conciliation, seek ways and means of removing or eliminating from the market hazardous products and causing offenders to replace such products with safer and more appropriate alternatives, publish, from time to time, the list of products the consumption and sale of which have been banned, withdrawn, severally restricted or not approved by the Federal Government or foreign governments, cause an offending company, firm, trade, association or individual to protect, compensate, and provide relief and safeguards to injured consumers or communities from adverse effects of technologies that are inherently harmful, injurious, violent or highly hazardous, and organise and undertake campaigns and other forms of activities as will lead to increased public consumer awareness.
Nigeria • 1992 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Commodity Boards Act.
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
An Act to dissolve The Nigerian Produce Marketing Company Limited and all the states marketing boards and, in their place, set up six new commodity boards to which certain staff and assets of the dissolved company and boards are to be transferred. It establishes six corporate bodies: the Nigerian Cocoa Board, the Nigerian Groundnut Board, the Nigerian Cotton Board, the Nigerian Palm Produce Board, the Nigerian Rubber Board and the Nigerian Grains Board.
Nigeria • 1977 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Export Produce (Federal Powers) Act
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
This is an Act to confer sundry powers in relation to certain produce intended for export. The minister for the time being charged with responsibility for external trade may, from time to time, make regulations prescribing grades and standards of quality for any produce intended for export, not being produce for export purchased by the relevant commodity board.
Nigeria • 1961 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Public Enterprises (Privatisation and Commercialisation) Order, 2004.
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
This order, made under the Public Enterprises (Privatisation and Commercialisation) Act, provides that 51 percent of Government shares in enterprises to be privatised may be offered to core investors and that 10 percent of the shares to be offered to the public may be reserved for staff of the enterprises to be privatised.
Nigeria • 2004 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Secured Transactions in Movable Assets Act, 2017 Explanatory Memoradum
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
An Act to provide for secured transactions, registration and regulation of security interests in movable assets; and for related matters. The objectives of the act are to enhance financial inclusion in Nigeria, stimulate responsible lending to micro, small and medium Enterprises, facilitate access to credit secured with movable assets and establish a collateral registry and provide for its operations.
Nigeria • 2017 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
National Sugar Development Council Act Explanatory Memorandum
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
This Act seeks to amend the National Sugar Development Council Act to abolish the ten per cent surcharge on sugar imports and make provisions for alternate funding of the existing National Sugar Development Council.
Nigeria • 2015 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
Administration (Real Estate) Law.
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
This is a law relating to the Administration of real estate in the case of intestacy.
Nigeria • 1971 • Trade, Industry, and Investment
NAFDAC Pesticide Registration Regulations 2019
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
These regulations apply to the registration of all pesticides that are manufactured, imported, exported, advertised, sold, distributed or used in Nigeria. The document emphasizes that no pesticide shall be manufactured, formulated, imported, exported, advertised, sold, distributed or used in Nigeria unless it has been registered in accordance with the provisions of these regulations, no person to whom a certificate of registration has been issued under these regulations shall lend, hire, sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of the certificate of registration to any other person without the approval of the Agency.
Nigeria • 2019 • Trade, Industry, and Investment