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The World Health Organization has announced its plans to simplify the way the public talks about the growing variants of the coronavirus by assigning easier-to-use language to each new mutation of the virus.[1] Under WHO’s new naming system, the names of the new variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are simplified from confusing […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has through a Press Release dated 11 February 2021, clarified its earlier statement on the Classification of Cryptocurrencies in line with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (“CBN”) ban on trading in these digital assets. CBN had through a circular dated February 5, 2021 prohibited dealing in cryptocurrencies or facilitating

  The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “the Commission”) issued an official statement (“the Statement”) on 14 September 2020 on the classification and treatment of Digital Assets (crypto assets such as crypto currencies and tokens). The Statement which communicated SEC’s position, stated that crypto assets are securities which fall under the regulatory ambit of