APPRAISAL OF LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK GUIDING VIOLATION OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN NIGERIA Overview Reproductive rights, which include freedoms and rights to autonomy, health, and decision-making around reproduction, are an essential part of human rights. In Nigeria, a complex interaction of institutional, cultural, and legal variables affects the status of women’s reproductive rights. […]
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CHAPTER ONE/INTRODUCTION The CBN Act mandates that the Central Bank manage monetary policy in a neutral and autonomous manner. There is a contentious debate about whether the Central Bank should be obligated to the government in light of the importance of monetary policy to long-term economic development. The Free Market (FM) argues in favor of […]
Background to the study Land, probably the most important source of shelter and wealth in a developing country, can always be subject of a great many interests and derivative rights((Agara v. Agunbiade[2013] All FWLR pt. 683 p. 1899 at 1919 para. D)). These are often difficult to elucidate, and where land is subject to native […]
CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE RIGHT OF ARTIFICIALLY INSEMINATED CHILD TO INHERIT UNDER ISLAMIC LAW
Chapter one/Introduction The need for bearing children, feeding them, cuddling them, rearing them, participating in their future and sharing their dreams is immense; it is a basic human need, a necessity. It has been so since the birth of humanity, and will always be so. In a country like Pakistan, or any country for that […]
The widow of an Igbo man faces many hurdles. First she could be given to her deceased husband’s brother or other male relative to marry as the anthropologists had said. Thiswas expected in earlier times, although by the 1960’s and ‘70’s the custom was dying out. It could be advantageous if the widow needed help […]
Background to the study A director is a person duly appointed by the company to direct and manage the business of the company.1 This definition goes a step further than the 1968 Act2 by adding due appointment as a condition precedent. Section 244 (2) provides a rebuttable presumption that all persons described by a company […]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Petroleum Business Act (PIA) 2021 earlier this year, capping a 20-year campaign to modernize the country’s oil and gas industry. The purpose of the legislation was to improve the environment for the sector’s growth and to address the valid complaints of the communities most harmed by extractive industries.
Introduction The first commercial discovery of oil in Nigeria was in 1956 in Oloibiri, Niger Delta. The discovery attracted other multinational oil companies to explore the onshore areas of Nigeria in 1961. As more players entered the upstream oil industry, the Federal Government of Nigeria created policies for the exploration and production of petroleum. Actual […]
It is clear that the reasons for grounds for the description of marriage are actually expanded enough to contain the majority of the issues that couples normally raise in the divorce process. This is the case in the majority of cases. However, each and every one of them may also present enormous challenges when attempting […]
AN APPRAISAL OF CUTOMARY ARBITRATION UNDER THE NIGERIAN LAW INTRODUCTION Arbitration is a kind of alternative dispute resolution in which a dispute or disagreement between two or more people is referred for settlement to a person or persons other than a court of competent jurisdiction after both parties have been heard in a judicial manner. […]