The History and Sources of Conflict of Laws in Nigeria: With Comparisons to Canada
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I had often wondered how, about five hundred or more years ago, cases with foreign elements were resolved in the geographical territory that is now known as Nigeria. My curiosity invited me to this intellectual pursuit with its unanticipated profound and challenging dimensions. F…
Igbo nation, modern statecraft and the geopolitics of national survival in a multiethnic Nigeria
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The central argument of the paper is that the Nigerian state has consistently failed in its efforts to address the structurally-defective pattern of governance characterized largely by imbalance and lopsidedness, particularly in the allocation and distribution of human and materi…
Academic Freedom and Emerging Research Universities
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Ahmed C. Bawa Academic Freedom and Emerging Research Universities HIGHER EDUCATION HAS REEMERGED AS A KEY INGREDIENT IN THE developm ent strategies of emerging nations and economies, with unprecedented growth in its provision and participation rates. Worldwide there is a delibera…
Chequered Accounts: Truth, Justice and the Judiciary in Post-Authoritarian Nigeria
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This chapter argues that neglect of judicial accountability for the past has resonance for achieving the aims of truth and justice for victims of gross violations of human rights as well as wider issues of transitional justice. Moreover, the contextual analysis suggests that negl…
NIGERIA: Ekiti State Results Announced
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Shari'ah in Northern Nigeria in the Light of Asymmetrical Federalism
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In the debate that ensued after the extension of Shari’ah to the penal codes in northern Nigeria, there emerged, among other things, the thesis that the extension of Shari’ah can be accommodated under asymmetrical federalism. Many analysts have accepted this thesis uncritically.…
Community Policing
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Rethinking Police and Society: Community Policing in Comparison D. Wisler and I. D. Onwudiwe Community Policing in a High Crime Transitional State: The Case of South Africa Since Democratization in 1994 A. Minnaar Reforming Community, Reclaiming the State: The Development of Sung…
Community Policing: The Case of Informal Policing in Nigeria
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While community policing (CP) generally may have gained worldwide acceptance in the past two decades as a philosophy, its definition has not generally received an intersubjective acceptability. There is a problem with defining the concept of CP. Its definition is still in limbo,…
Nigeria since 1999
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Local Government and Metropolitan Regions in Federal Systems
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While local government is found in all federal countries, its place and role in the governance of these countries varies considerably. In some countries, local government is considered an essential part of the federal nature of the state and recognized in the constitution as such…
Shariacracy and Federal Models in the Era of Globalization
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Nigeria has Africa’s largest concentration of Muslims and the world’s largest concentration of black Muslims. As the twenty first century began to unfold, more Muslim states in the Nigerian federation adopted some version of Islamic law, although the country as a whole is suppose…
Shariacracy and Federal Models in the Era of Globalization
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Nigeria has Africa’s largest concentration of Muslims and the world’s largest concentration of black Muslims. As the twenty first century began to unfold, more Muslim states in the Nigerian federation adopted some version of Islamic law, although the country as a whole is suppose…
Saroj Nalini Arambam Parratt (1933–2008)
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Arambam Saroj Nalini was born in Imphal, in the then princely state of Manipur, on June 2nd 1933. Her father was a well-known and respected educationalist and government officer. During the war years he was posted to Jiribam, where she received her first education, and later tran…
A Country without a State?: Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea; a regional case study
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Terror, territoriality and the struggle for indigeneity and citizenship in northern Nigeria
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The struggle of the minority ethnic groups against the majority Hausa-Fulani ethnic-amalgam in the north of Nigeria has persisted. As a result of the twentieth-century jihad and politico-cultural and economic factors, Fulani (Muslims) are found in many parts of the minority areas…
NIGERIA: Minor Reshuffle
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A history of Nigeria
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Issues of State Responsibility before the International Court of Justice
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Issues of state responsibility have engaged the attention of both the Permanent Court of International Justice and the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Issues of state responsibility before the ICJ may be said to have fallen into three broad categories: attribution of conduc…
Policing police crime: the case of criminals in the Norwegian police
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There seems to be a tendency to consider police crime as a result of bad practice, lack of resources or mismanagement, rather than acts of criminals. However, examples illustrate that criminal acts are intentionally carried out by police officers on duty. For example, a 30-year-o…
Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone: The story of UNAMSIL, by Funmi Olonisakin
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At its full strength, UNAMSIL, the United Nations military mission in Sierra Leone, was the largest peacekeeping operation in the world. It was launched in April 2000 as a replacement for a Nigerian-dominated regional peacekeeping force. UNAMSIL's role was to protect a tenuous pe…
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