The Status of the Right to Strike in Nigeria: A Perspective from International and Comparative Law
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The question as to whether employees have a fundamental right to strike has been the object of considerable academic debate and is a point on which judicial opinions have continually been expressed. There is no doubt that workers throughout the world are alike in the sense that t…
The Precarious Place of Labour Rights and Movements in Nigeria's Dual Economic and Political Transition, 1999–2005
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Abstract Caught between pressure from dominant global economic actors (such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB), and certain states) to implement painful socio-economic reform measures, and pressure from significant numbers of their own peoples to reject…
Celebrating Reform 2007
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No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Celebrating Reform 2007Doing Business Case StudiesAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-7293-7SectionsAboutPDF (0.7 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstr…
Legal perspectives on the casualisation of workers under Nigerian Labour Law
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This article discusses the different faces of the phenomenon of casualization of labour in Nigeria and the struggle of the workers towards a dignified realization of their labour rights. A comparative review of other jurisdictions is made to give more insights into the problem, a…
Pathologies in de-bureaucratic public organizations in Nigeria
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De-bureaucratization of public organizations (popularly called deregulation in Nigeria) is a relatively new concept in public administration. However, it is rapidly gathering tremendous interests because it is being considered as a more attractive organization concept than the mu…
Towards Regaining Learning and Correcting Leanings in the Legal Profession in Nigeria
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Environmental governance and the accountability of non-State actors in Africa: a rights-based approach
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tisation in Africa, University of Pretoria South Africa; PG Dip Intl Human Rights, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland; JSD Cum Laude, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA; Barrister and Solicitor (Nigeria); Associate Professor, Nelson Mandela School of Law, Univ…
Human Rights and the Environment: Is there a Legally Enforceable Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment for the ‘Peoples’ of the Niger Delta under the framework of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria
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The article looks at the issue of whether a right to a clean environment for the peoples of the Niger Delta can be deduced under the framework of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria.
The Nigerian legal system : an introduction
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Lawyers' Professionalism, Colonialism, State Formation and National Life in Nigeria, 1900-1960: 'The Fighting Brigade of the People'
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DOING JUSTICE WITHOUT THE STATE: THE AFIKPO (EHUGBO) NIGERIA MODEL By O. Oko Elechi. New York: Routledge, 2006.
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The book Doing Justice Without the State: The Afikpo (Ehugbo) Nigeria Model, vividly explains an essentially home-grown methodology of justice devoid of the rancour and violence of the western model despite the latters imposition. Elechi successfully shows that the widespread per…
Doing Justice Without the State: The Afikpo (Ehugbo) Nigeria Model By O. Oko Elechi. New York: Routledge, 2006.
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This very ground-breaking and credible research on restorative justice results in a powerful elucidation of Afikpos traditional system of settling disputes between individuals and organizations. The main focus of this academic analysis is rooted in an understanding of Afikpos est…
AIC Limited v. Federal Government of Nigeria and Others
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571 State immunity — Jurisdictional immunity — General rule that foreign State immune unless an exception to immunity is applicable — United Kingdom State Immunity Act 1978 — Proceedings for registration of judgment against foreign State given by court in that foreign State — Whe…
Rethinking the exclusive jurisdiction of Nigerian universities in academic matters
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The rule of law requires that all courts have exclusive power to examine any dispute. Without this judicial power, there would be a lack of confidence in the administration of justice and subsequent vigilantism or self help. The author poses the questions: What remains of the rul…
Globalization and Legal Education: Views from the Outside-In
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During the past two decades a new, global, legal professionalism has manifested itself in the field of legal education through a variety of programmes seeking to produce globally-aware or globally-connected lawyers. This paper explores the diverse meanings of globalization and le…
AN EVALUATION OF IMPACT OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMME ON THE YOUTH IN CHIKUN LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL OF KADUNA STATE
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATION AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA NIGERIA. FEBRUARY, 2007
Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa: Political dysfunction and the struggle for social progress, edited by Tukumbi Lumumba-KasongoDemocratic transitions in East Africa, edited by Paul J. Kaiser and F. Wafula Okum
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Regrettably, expatriate scholarship continues to dominate the study of Africa, and therefore volumes by African scholars are to be given particular attention. This beautifully produced volume edited by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo has only African contributors. It can be described as…
Africa and Its Constitutional Development
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Constitutional Democracy in Africa in 5 volumes by Ben NwabuezeSpectrum Books, Nigeria, 2004, 2092 pp., ISBN 9-78029-432-5, £250.00 In his foreword to this work, the late Julius Nyerere described it as “at once magis terial and authoritative; … learned and erudite without being p…
'Adventurous' Judgments: A Comparative Exploration into Human Rights as a Moral-Political Force in Judicial Law Development
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This article looks at the development of law by the judiciary in the sense of judgments taking the law beyond the point of what was hitherto regarded as ius positivum. Its main perspective, however, is not the creation of law by the courts as such, but rather the ways and means i…
On Governor Obi of Anambra?s Reinstatement by the Supreme Court: The Relationship Between Section 180(1)&(2) of the Nigerian Constitution
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