Ohwovoriole, Asala & Co

20/01/2022

NGOs include Churches, Charities, Associations, Cooperatives, Companies Limited by Guarantee etc.

Although NGOs are exempted from paying Companies Income Tax, they are however expected to comply with certain tax law provisions as highlighted below:

11/01/2022

If you transact with companies like Meta Meta Platforms, Inc. (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp), Google and the likes, you may have gotten a mail from them notifying you about their decision to start charging and collecting Value Added Tax(VAT) on your purchases starting from 1st January, 2022.

This decision is not arbitrary as the Law now requires this of non resident Suppliers of digital goods/services.

If you or your company supplies digital services to Nigerian residents, you are required to comply with the VAT Act, provided you/your company is non resident in Nigeria and your supplies totals or exceeds or is expected to total $25,000 or it's equivalent.

PLEASE NOTE that the due date for remitting VAT/filing Returns is 21st of every month.

03/01/2022

Happy New Year!!!!

03/01/2022

We are pleased to announce the admittance of Obare Princess Dafiaghor, ACArb, ACTI, ABR as the youngest Partner at O&A.

Obare has overtime exhibited an uncommon capacity for excellent delivery of services, provision of carefully thought out solutions and highly commendable leadership. She is proactive, resilient, intelligent, committed and possesses an admirable sense of responsibility.

She is an invaluable asset to every team she encounters and is one to look out for in the legal profession.

We are excited to have her as a part of this team.

26/12/2021

With love in our hearts, we wish you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in advance.

22/11/2021

The Court of Appeal of Nigeria has issued new Rules, effective from 1st November, 2021.

Some notable introductions to the rules are the provision for virtual hearings, electronic filing of documents, service of processes via email, timelines for interlocutory applications and a host of others which can be found at

COURT OF APPEAL RULES, 2021 The Court of Appeal issued its new Rules recently which became effective as of 1st November, 2021 and thereby repealed the...

08/12/2018

When we see a problem, we think out and take steps to solve it.

Colloquium on Sustainable Synergy Between Police and Lawyers, sequel to allegations of existing hostilities between the parties.

Full report at https://princessdafiaghor.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-nigeria-police-nigerian-lawyers.html

06/07/2016

As Lawyers, you cannot guarantee that you will never be a Counsel to the Judgment Debtor in a garnishee proceedings, get armed with knowledge of the right of your potential client at http://princessdafiaghor.blogspot.com.ng/2016/07/the-judgment-debtor-and-garnishee-order.html?m=1

18/06/2015

...........FOR LAWYERS.........
To get your enrollment number, follow the link below with your default browser:

nba-agc.org.

And click on the 'start registration' bar

(Thanks to Barr. Fejiro Umukoro)

06/06/2015

THE LAW, YOUR BANK AND YOU

Its precisely 20minutes to the live discussion on bank issues. For those who would like to send in questions via other platforms...bbm@ 56008293; whatsapp@08135868622
Don't be left out...be aware

01/06/2015

And so the bank's ATM withheld his ATM card for no fault of his. When the card was finally retrieved, it was destroyed by one of the bank's official who informed him that he had to apply for issuance of a new ATM CARD and of course! He would be charged for the new one. He exclaimed "this is wickedness!!!" and oh! He is a customer of the bank.

Finally it got to her turn after standing for 2hrs 14mins in the long queue. Happily, She inserted her ATM card into the ATM expecting to get paid as was the case of the others with different banks' ATM cards who had gotten paid;after all it was her bank's ATM. To her utmost dismay , this was the response "ISSUER OR SWITCH INOPERATIVE". In the spirit of understanding she walked into the bank and demanded for a counter cheque, same was handed to her coupled with the information that the charge(money) would be deducted from her account. She protested, stating that the issue with the ATM was the bank's fault. Still the sum of #215.00 was debited from her account.

He never gets any alert on transactions from his bank yet the bank debits his account monthly for sms charges. He just discovered when he was given his statement of account on his request.

We have had experiences similar or even worse than the scenarios above with our various banks.
This, to a large extent, is because we are not aware of the provisions of the Laws regulating bankers/customers relationship AND, the bankers know that majority of the customers lack awareness.

Do you want to be aware?
Do you want to know about the remedies available to you as a customer against your bank??
Do you have questions as to bankers/customers relationship???
Then...
Join Us_ 7pm on the 6th of June 2015, live on Facebook. Do not participate alone, share this post with your friends and click the like button.