No Cause for Merriment: The Position of Widows under Nigerian Law
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Dans les communautes partout au Nigeria, les veuves ont tres peu de droits et elles sont soumises a des obligations extremement onereuses. Elles font regulierement l'objet de discrimination et subissent des contraintes serieuses dans leur vie de tous les jours. Le present article…
Compulsory Purchase and Payment of Compensation in Nigeria: A Case Study of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja.
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The ruling of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal (1999) states that the Land Use Act (LUA) does not apply to lands within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Ipso facto. The distinction between urban and non-urban Land created by the Land Use Act is not applicable within t…
Clinical Legal Education in Nigeria
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This paper is an examination of the existing method of legal education in Nigeria, the emergence of clinical legal education, the curriculum, gains of clinical legal education and the challenges of its introduction in Nigeria.
Harmonisation of Shari’ah, Common law and Customary Law in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects
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Law in Nigeria is traceable to three distinct legal traditions namely customary law, Islamic law and the English common law. These laws often differ irreconcilably in substantive law, procedural law, concepts of justice, and worldviews. The colonial administration ensured the asc…
Women and Law in West Africa: Gender Relations in the Family- a West African Perspective
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AKUA KUENYEHIA (ED.). WOMEN AND LAW IN WEST AFRICA: GENDER RELATIONS IN THE FAMILY- A WEST AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE (ACCRA: WOMEN AND LAW IN WEST AFRICA, 2003. PP. XV, 215. GRAPHS, TABLES.) The literature on women's rights tends to be dominated by the concerns of Western theorists and…
A Bill of Rights as the Basis of a Common Law in a Pluralist Nigeria
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Combining the International Protection for Nature and Human Rights
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The number of situations where both people and nature are harmed by human activities are increasing in the same pace as mankind is augmenting its control and so called 'development' of the Earth. Although previously much debated, we have passed the stage when protecting human rig…
South Africa in Africa: the post-apartheid era (review)
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Reviewed by: South Africa in Africa: the post-apartheid era Jeremy Grest (bio) Adekeye Adebajo, Adebayo Adediji and Chris Landsberg (eds) (2007) South Africa in Africa: the post-apartheid era. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. This volume emerged from workshops…
'Democratic Transition, Judicial Accountability and Judicialisation of Politics in Africa: The Nigerian Experience'
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Purpose – This paper aims to examine the growing incidence of judicialisation of politics in Nigeria's democratisation experience against the backdrop of questionable judicial accountability. Design/methodology/approach – The article draws on legal and political theory as well as…
Charles Mwalimu: the Nigerian legal system
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Restorative justice in Nigeria
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NIGERIA: Court Challenges Election
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Pretoria Student Law Review 2007-1
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Definition of termsPoverty is generally equated with indigence, or, in other words, insufficient resources to sustain a person in life, financial disability or a lack of means of comfortable subsistence so as not to be in want.3 It may be argued that 'insufficiency of means' is a…
NIGERIA: Anti‐Graft Chief Sidelined
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Ethnic Federalism: The Ethiopian Experience in a Comparative Perspective, David Turton, ed.
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Reviewed by: Ethnic Federalism: The Ethiopian Experience In a Comparative Perspective John T. Ishiyama Turton, David , ed. 2006. Ethnic Federalism: The Ethiopian Experience in a Comparative Perspective. Oxford: James Curry. 246 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). This book is qui…
Progress and Retreat in Africa: Legislatures on the Rise?
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Abstract: Although legislative performance is uneven across the African continent, the legislature is emerging as a “player” in some countries. It has begun to initiate and modify laws to a degree never seen during the era of neopatrimonial rule or even in the early years after t…
TOWARDS RETHINKING LEGAL EDUCATION IN NIGERIA
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Legal education in Nigeria derived inspiration from England but the legal terrain in Nigeria is very different from that of England. Law in Nigeria is a pluralistic affair; not only the imported common law but also Islamic law and a large host of ethnic‐based customary laws play…
Instruments of Faith and Unity in Canon Law: The Church of Nigeria Constitutional Revision of 2005
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The Church of Nigeria's canon law revision of 14 September 2005 redefined the terms of inter-provincial Anglican unity from a focus on communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury to communion based explicitly upon the authority of scripture and historic doctrinal statements. This…
Repugnancy Doctrine and Customary Law in Nigeria: A Positive Aspect of British Colonialism.
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The doctrine of repugnancy owes it origin to the medieval period and evolution of English equity. The doctrine was introduced into Nigeria by the end of the 19th century via the received English laws to test our customary law for acceptability. The issue has been whether the appl…
Competition Law across Africa : competition law
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South African businesses no longer simply conduct their business within our borders. With the post-1994 opening up of the South African economy, local enterprises have established themselves in other countries throughout Africa. This is perhaps most dramatically illustrated throu…
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