Perception of child adoption among parents/care-givers of children attending pediatric outpatients’ clinics in Enugu, South East, Nigeria Adoption could be defined as the official transfer through the legal system of all the parental rights that a biological parent has to a child, along with an assumption by the adopting parents of all of the […]
A Legal Appraisal Of Adoption Practice Under Nigeria Law Brief Introduction Up to 1965, there was no statutory basis in any part of Nigeria for the adoption of a person. This caused a lot of hardship, because even when couples took children into their household on the understanding that they were being adopted, it could […]
A LAW TO ENFORCE THE RIGHTS AND ADVANCE THE WELFARE OF THE CHILD, AND TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE ALL LEGISLATIONS RELATING TO THE PROTECTION AND WELFARE OF THE CHILD IN LAGOS STATEAND FOR OTHER CONNECTED AND INCIDENTAL PURPOSES–(28th May 2007) THE LAGOS STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY enacts as follows: As from the commencement of this […]
Problems And Prospects Of Lagos State Child’s Rights Law A Study Of Social Welfare Officers Abstract The main objective of this study is to evaluate the implementation of Child Rights Law (CRL) of Lagos State after its introduction in 2007; and to identify any challenges in the application of the justice provisions in the Family […]
Legal Appraisal of Child Rights Law In Lagos State The issue of child rights is poorly defined in legislation and by the courts, partly because many nations have not decided how much of such rights to grant to children. For one to comprehend what a child right is, the terms ‘right’ and ‘human rights’ will […]
Abstract Immunization plays a significant role in the lives of children, by providing strong immune system, and also, fighting against the preventable diseases such as polio, chicken pox, Pneumococcal, rotavirus, HIB, Pertussis, Tetanus and measles. In time past, manual methods have been used in collecting data from mothers and cards were used in reminding mothers […]
PORTRAIT OF FEMINISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN SELECTED NOVELS OF AFRICAN FEMALE WRITERS INTRODUCTION. In its oral and written forms, literature has constantly served as one of the major instruments in mirroring reality and society. Literature remains a consistent tool in the representation, comprehension and interpretation of fields of human endeavour such as religion, class […]
A Legal Analysis Of Job Security Law in Nigeria Under applicable laws, workers generally harbour a variety of expectations as regards their jobs. The most paramount of these expectations is, perhaps, the right to job security. There is, however, a struggle between employees and employers over this right. This struggle is a species of the […]
LEGAL CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS OF ASSET SECURITIZATION IN NIGERIA Abstract Asset securitization is one of the new methods of financing beyond the horizon of the traditional equity and debt financing and it is still untested waters in Nigeria. This study is set against the background of possible utility of asset securitization in Nigeria and […]
AN EXAMINATION OF TENSE ERRORS IN ENGLISH ESSAYS AMONG STUDENTS Adejare and Adejare, states that tense is the linguistic feature of handling time relations in speech and it differs from language to language. To them, tense is a linguistic feature usually characterized by abstraction with language specific rather than universal. According to them, traditional Grammar […]