Urbanization and Community Policing in Nigeria
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3 - The Informalization of Belonging: Igbo Informal Enterprise and National Cohesion from Below
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The Nigerian Civil War evokes images of ethno-regional strife followed by sim- mering ethnic tension. However, political perspectives on the legacies of Biafra tend to gloss over the more integrative and constructive economic effects of the Civil War and its aftermath. While the…
5 Nigeria since 1999 A Revolving Door Syndrome or the Consolidation of Democracy?
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Yoruba Women, Work, and Social Change
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Clearly written and cogently argued, this book is the first comprehensive survey of Yoruba women's lives from the precolonial period until independence. The period 1820-1960 was one of fundamental political, economic, and social change, during which the Yoruba of southwestern Nig…
Trade Unions and Popular Representation: Nigeria and South Africa Compared
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Scholars (primarily, but not only, from Europe) are naturally enough preoccupied with the historical role of labour movements and their ability to sustain their political influence on state power through the close link between unions and the political wing of the movement, whethe…
International labour standards and the challenges of collective bargaining in Nigeria
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Global Trade Union Rights Situation Worsening
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REPORT□ TRADEUNIONRIGHTSWORLDWIDE Global Trade Union Rights Situation Worsening 76 TradeUnionists Murderedin2008 Thousands of Dismissals and Arrests Repressionof Striking Workers in40 Countries Human and Trade Union Rights Department, International Trade Union Confederation For m…
Labour Relations and Ethical Dilemmas of Extractive MNEs in Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia: 1950–2000
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Irrigating the famished fields: The impact of labour-led struggle on policy and action in Nigeria (1999–2007)
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Between 1999 and 2007, a broad-based labour-led movement which focused most of its energies on its struggle against unpopular fuel price hikes in Nigeria was able to exert considerable, though limited, influence on an Obasanjo-led executive arm of government that was at best quas…
Conclusions and Managerial/Public Policy Implications
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One of the primary research questions examined dealt with the status and role of ICTs in Africa in an increasingly interdependent global economy. The exploration of this subject demonstrates that African nations continue to lag behind other nations of the world in terms of the de…
Challenges in implementing code of conduct within the public sector in Anglophone West African countries: Perspectives from public managers
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This paper reports on a focus group study of senior and middle-level public managers’ perceptions about barriers to the implementation of code of conduct in the public sector in five Anglophone West African countries. The paper adopts a qualitative research strategy using focus g…
Trade Unions and the Challenges of Casualisation of Workers in Nigeria
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Trade Union Organizations in Nigeria are being faced with serious problems relating to the violations of Labour Rights and Privileges including intimidation of workers to leave unions. Globalization has brought with it flexibility, which has encouraged cheap labour thereby making…
THE REPRESSIVE FACE OF LAW TO STRIKE IN NIGERIA: HOPE FOR INDUSTRIAL PEACE?
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Though the strike is accepted as an indispensable component of a democracy and a stimulus to social dialogue in industrial relations, strikes have remained controversial in many jurisdictions and are repressed by law in some legal systems. This paper examines the legal response t…
Africa fights the ‘people trade’
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When 20-year-old Isoke Aikpitanyi was offered a job in Italy in 2000 she leapt at the chance. Life was difficult at home in Nigeria and opportunities for young women were limited and few. She knew that she would have to enter the country illegally and that the promised job would…
A Philosophical Defence of Punishment in Traditional African Legal Culture: The Yoruba Example
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Oladele Abiodun Balogun is a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria wherein he specializes in African philosophy and the philosophy of education. Currently, he does research in African legal culture and has published articles in pr…
Reconstructing law and justice in a postcolony
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Contents: Foreword Introduction Part 1 Customary Law Foundations of Modern Law and Justice: Are traditions, customs, and native laws impotent in the face of modernity? Part 2 Indigenous versus Foreign Social Controls in 12 Selected Countries: Introduction to part 2 Indigenous ver…
The Lawyer's Role in a Contemporary Democracy, Promoting the Rule of Law, Lawyers in Fragile Democracies and the Challenges of Democratic Consolidation: The Nigerian Experience
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Enforcement of fundamental rights and the standing rules under the Nigerian Constitution : a need for a more liberal provision
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This article explores the scope of standing rules in section 46 of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. It is observed that the section contains a restrictive and narrow provision on locus standi. The article finds that this narrow provision has the regressive effect of limiting acces…
A review of Nigerian government's regulatory efforts to enhance local government autonomy
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Enforcing Fundamental Rights in Nigerian Courts – Processes and Challenges
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Abstract Fundamental rights provisions have continued to feature very prominently in the successive constitutions of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The enforcement procedure, however, remains identical to the one provided in 1979, in the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedur…
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