{"id":240296,"date":"2026-08-04T07:29:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-new-digital-economy-rules-leave-gaps-in-crypto-regulation-financial-law-expert-explains\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T07:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:29:32","slug":"nigerias-new-digital-economy-rules-leave-gaps-in-crypto-regulation-financial-law-expert-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-new-digital-economy-rules-leave-gaps-in-crypto-regulation-financial-law-expert-explains\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s New Digital Economy Rules Leave Gaps in Crypto Regulation &#8211; Financial Law Expert Explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">Nigerian president Bola Tinubu <a href=\"https:\/\/statehouse.gov.ng\/president-tinubu-signs-executive-order-on-virtual-assets-establishes-council-to-harmonise-regulation-of-digital-economy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed<\/a> an executive order in mid-2026 aimed at harmonising the country&#8217;s oversight of the digital economy. The press statement <a href=\"https:\/\/statehouse.gov.ng\/president-tinubu-signs-executive-order-on-virtual-assets-establishes-council-to-harmonise-regulation-of-digital-economy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> the order was responding &#8220;to a regulatory environment that has become fragmented as virtual assets increasingly blur the traditional boundaries between currencies, money, commodities and securities&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uel.ac.uk\/about-uel\/staff\/iwa-salami\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iwa Salami<\/a>, a professor of financial law and regulation, examines whether the executive order plugs the gaps in Nigeria&#8217;s crypto-asset&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608040017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian president Bola Tinubu signed an executive order in mid-2026 aimed at harmonising the country&#8217;s oversight of the digital economy. The press statement said the order was responding &#8220;to a regulatory environment that has become fragmented as virtual assets increasingly blur the traditional boundaries between currencies, money, commodities and securities&#8221;. Iwa Salami, a professor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,26006,9633,5762,8957,8077,5063,10441,7077,6775,257,393,5761,6950,10967,254],"class_list":["post-240296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crypto","tag-digital","tag-economy","tag-expert","tag-explains","tag-financial","tag-gaps","tag-law","tag-leave","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-regulation","tag-rules","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}