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Human Rights and Sustainable Democracy in Nigeria (1999 - 2003)

The concern for human rights is as old as humanity itself. In fact, the expression ‘human rights’ as term or art is of recent origin, but the idea of the inalienable rights’ of man predates the very political system, which produces the law-making institutes, as we know them today. The thrust of this paper, however, is to fill the yearning gap in the extant literature on the need to appraise the institutional mechanisms for the safeguard of the inalienable rights’ of man in Nigeria’s contemporary democratic experiment. We juxtaposed same with what obtained in precolonial Africa most especially …